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Gary Hauser dominates race weekend in Mugello

Pole Position, 2 wins and a new official lap record, that’s the résumé of Gary Hauser’s race weekend in Mugello. Last years champion started his personal season opener with a sensational time of 1:33.404 in the qualifying, what secured him the pole position.

However the first race started pretty rough for the young Luxembourger. A weak start enabled his pursuers, Ingo Gerstl, Johann Ledermair and Bernd Herndlhofer to take three positions from him. In the end no one was able to keep up with Gary Hauser’s speed and so he still finished first. On top of that he was able to break the official track record with a time of 1:34.316 min.

The second race went even better, where Hauser defended the top spot from start to finish, with an overwhelming lead of over 26 seconds in front of Jakub Smiechowski (2nd) and Bernd Herndlhofer (3rd).

Equally well went the weekend for Karl-Heinz Becker who took the first spot in the MASTERS Class in both races in front of the Speed Center pilots Hans Laub (2nd) and Christian Eicke (3rd).

 

 

See the complete results on the event page: Mugello Classic Results

Bernd Herndlhofer wins season opener in Hockenheim

The BOSS GP and many of its motorsports veterans like Klaas Zwart, Ingo Gerstl and Peter Milavec are back for another nerve-racking and exciting season of first class motorsports. Like already 8 years now the season opener took place on the Hockenheim GP Circuit in front of 20.000 excited spectators.

But it was not one of the BOSS GP veterans who was able to secure the first victory of the year, instead it was last years newcomer Jakub Smiechowski, who took the lead over from Bernd Herndlhofer in the last lap of race one. For a long time it looked like a nearly perfect weekend for Jakub Smiechowski, who was on its way to a second place in race two behind Klaas Zwart, and thus an overall victory of this weekends event. But only two laps to go a break failure forced him to abandon the second race.

In the end the overall winner of the 2014 BOSS GP Championship opening event is called Bernd Herndlhofer and his team “H & A Racing”, who brought the most consistent performance to the table with two second places and one class win.

Another honourable mention goes to MASTERS class driver Karl Heinz Becker, who just celebrated his 70th birthday, what did not stop him to drive his all time personal Hockenheim lap record of 1:34.524s.

See the complete results on the event page: Hockenheim Historic Results

BOSS SuperPrix Champions 2013

Another spectacular BOSS SuperPrix Season is over and like every year we are honored to present you this years champions. In the Masters class, the smallest but not less entertaining than any other B.O.S.S. class, Hans Laub (GER) was able to push Karl-Heinz Becker (GER) to the second place, right in front of Christian Eicke (GER) who finished third place.

Last years newcomer Gary Hauser (LUX) was able to continue his excellent performance and so it came at no surprise that he secured the first place in the “Formula” class in addition to the title of B.O.S.S. SuperPrix Overall Champion 2013 in the “Open” class.  Frenchman Philippe Haezebrouck (FR) finished in an excellent second place with his new 2008 Dallara GP2. 2011 “Formula” Champion Ingo Gerstl (AUT) took the third place.

We see the same faces in the “Open” class, with the only difference that Philippe and Ingo swap places, with Gary still on top.  

Congratulations to all 2013 B.O.S.S. Champions. 

 

B.O.S.S. SuperPrix “Open” Champions

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top to bottom: Gary Hauser, Ingo Gerstl, Philippe Haezebrouck

 

B.O.S.S. SuperPrix “Formula” Champions

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top to bottom: Gary Hauser, Philippe Haezebrouck, Ingo Gerstl

 

B.O.S.S. SuperPrix “Masters” Champions

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top to bottom: Hans Laub, Karl-Heinz Becker, Christian Eicke

 

Last but not least we like to thank all drivers, mechanics, team managers and all other participants, who made this season a great success. Thank You. With 2014th Season already in preparation, we are looking forward to see you again next year.

Test Possibilities 2014

The BOSS GP Foundation often receives information and offers about testing possibilities for BOSS teams and drivers but also generally for owners of big single seaters to test and prepare their cars for the upcoming race activities.

Date: 29 July 2014  *Exclusive*
Circuit: Spa-Francorchamps / Belgium
Schedule: 4x á 50-60min (big single seater only)
Price: 1500€ day/car
Contact: bossgp2010@aol.com

If you are interested to participate in one of these tests don’t hesitate and feel free to contact the respective organizer. The list will be constantly updated!

Spectacular BOSS GP Finale entertains Spectators in Monza

It’s not much of a surprise that the BOSS GP was once again one of the highlights of last weeks race weekend on the legendary autodromo di monza. What came at a surprise thou, is that BOSS GP Veteran Marijn van Kalmthout wasn’t able to secure the top spot at neither of the two races. An unfortunate starting crash in the Variante del Rettifilo made the dutchman drop from position 1 to position 16. In the end he was still able to finish on the second place 8,48 seconds behind Ingo Gerstl in his Dallara GP2. Gary Hausser and BOSS GP newcomer Jakub Smiechowski showed of their racing skills in a rainy second race and placed first and second in front of Marijn van Kalmthout who finished third. In the end the second and third place were enough to secure the overall BOSS GP Champion Title of 2013. Congratulations to Marijn van Kalmthout, Gary Hausser and Ingo Gerstl who finished second and third overall.

 

Race 1 Results

1 Ingo Gerstl
2 Marijn van Kalmthout
3 Gary Hauser
4 Marco Faggionato
5 Phil Stratford
6 Gianluca Ripoli
7 Karl-Heinz Becker
8 Philippe Haezebrouck
9 Walter Steding
10 Hans Laub
11 Marco Ghiotto
12 Christian Eicke
13 Armando Mangini
DNC 30 Peter Milavec
DNC 37 Jakub Smiechowski
DNC 28 Philippe Bourgois

Race 2 Results

1 Gary Hauser
2 Jakub Smiechowski
3 Marijn van Kalmthout
4 Sergio Ghiotto
5 Marco Ghiotto
6 Karl-Heinz Becker
7 Hans Laub
8 Walter Steding
9 Armando Mangini
10 Christian Eicke
11 Phil Stratford
DNC Philippe Haezebrouck
DNC Gianluca Ripoli
DNC Marco Faggionato

Visit the BOSS GP Finale 2013 in Monza

Three weeks ago, it was Italy’s turn to host the world of Formula One and the Monza circuit with its legendary high speed corners such as the Curva Parabolica, Variante Ascari and Curva di Lesmo, was the venue. And the coming weekend, the engines will be roaring again when the BOSS GP will visit the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in the north of Italy near Milano, which has a length of the 5.793 kilometres.

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As many as 19 brute race monsters will compete during this final BOSS GP Championship event in 2013. Two cars who formerly raced in the Formula One World Championship will heading the grid with US driver Phil Stratford in his ex-Ukyo Katayama Tyrrell 022 from 1994 and BOSS GP front-runner Marijn van Kalmthout in his well-known ex-Jean Alesi Benetton B197 from 1997. Not less than 11 participants will fight for victory in the ‘FORMULA’ class, with ten GP2 and one Champcar while six drivers are on the entry list of the BOSS GP ‘MASTERS’ category which is open to machinery from the Worldseriey by Renault and Nissan, but also the Formula 3000 category.

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The entry list at Monza features five Italian drivers. Gianluca Ripoli, Marco & Sergio Ghiotto will be in action in the ‘FORMULA’ class in a GP2, while the other two Italian drivers will compete in the ‘MASTERS’ class. Armando Mangini will drive a Lola F3000, while Maurizio Copetti will show his skills in a Worldseries by Nissan V6.

For the first time in BOSS racing history a driver from Poland will join the grid, 21-year old NEC Formula Renault driver Jakub Smiechowski and his team from Inter Europol Competition are ready for the their first BOSS GP race.

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The ‘AvD Race Weekend – Italian SuperPrix’ will provide plenty of action with more than 20 races over two days including the BOSS GP, the official European NASCAR series, the DMV Touringcar Challenge with over 40 powerful GT and Touringcars and a number of other European classes from historic to modern. The first BOSS GP race will take place on Saturday at 6:15pm in the evening and the second race gets underway directly after the lunch break on Sunday at 1:30pm. The race on Saturday is scheduled to 20 minutes while the main race on Sunday will be 25min.

The BOSS GP drivers are consequently looking forward to this exciting race weekend at one of the world’s most famous race circuit.