GT2 World Series Round 1
Published 10 May, 2012Hellenic Racing team has joined GT2 World Series 2012 and this year the league has a new feature, of Pro and Amateur classes. The first race of 2012 was a 3 hour race at Blackwood reversed (BL1R). HR team participated with an XRR in Pro class having a not so good qualifying session ending in 19th position in the grid of 30 teams.
The race pace of A.Perrs and V. Kazantzas was good and steady during the 141 laps they raced, giving them a finish in the top 10. (according to provisional results)
Here is the full race video of this first race.
link to the video: 2012 GT2 World Series – Round 1 – Full Race
Next race of the series will be at Aston International (AS6X_A62) on 2nd of June.
16hours 2011 Final Results
Published 16 November, 2011Incredible news to report: The final result for the annual 16 hours race by Racing Minds is out! It provides the lo
ng awaited confirmation for Hellenic Racing Team’s third place GT2 finish.
HR™ showed lots of courage, pure consistency and little to no mistakes throughout the entire race. Assisted by a little bit of luck, this great effort marks our first podium finish in an endurance event, a milestone in the history of the team.
OLFSL Round 10 Qualification Results
Published 16 September, 2011The sunny outlands of Jamaica will host the 10th round of the Original LFS league. The very fast, 3.1km long Fern Bay Green is the track for this round. This time 67 drivers placed their XR formulas’ on the grid. It was a realy interesting battle for a better place on the grid by everyone, as the gap between the polesitter and the 20th is less that a second.
Our B.Chalaris, driving just one lap on during the qualification procedure, stopped the timer at 1:00,62 a time that places him on the 4th position of the grid, just three tenths behind J.Lehikoinen who has the poleposition.
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OLFSL Round 9 Qualification Results
Published 4 September, 2011First racing weekend after the summer break & OLFSL travels again to England, at Aston Racetrack. The 3.1km of Aston Club configuration seemed chalenging for the 51 RAC drivers who qualified for the race. 
Hellenic Racing team is represented by two drivers this time. C.Panoulas stopped the timer at 1:09.94, being about 1,5 sec slower thatn the pole man and will start from 10th place of pool 2 on Sunday afternoon.
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Hellenic Racing team celebrates 2 years of racing!
Published 3 September, 2011On the 29th of August 2009, a group of Hellenic sim racers established the Hellenic Racing Team, a LFS team with the main purpose of sharing the passion for sim racing with each other. Since then our team members have been competing in a hard but fair manner, achieving good results in both sprint and endurance races. Most remarkable of all results so far beeing victorious in both the teams’ and drivers’ championships in the 2010 Original LFS League – Fastlap Fury. If someone was to review the last 2 years, it would sum up to “racing spirit, team cooperation, fair competition, friendly atmosphere, battle until the last lap.” This is was brought us here, two years later, challenging other members of the LFS community in sprint and endurance series.
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Breathtaking Pool 2 finish, interesting weekend in general.
Published 1 September, 2011Original LFS league travels for the third time to South City, this time for the 6th round of the season. Sixty-seven drivers will race for o good finish & a place on podium. B.Chalaris starting from 3rd was driving an easy & stable race until his moment came. On lap 14 he misjudges the entry of the chicane, hits to the inside wall & flips. Luckily he landed on his wheels so he managed to drive his way to the pits. Starting from 11th position now, manages to catch up his teammate V.Kazantzas & [KA] Braker. After two interesting laps B.Chalaris climbs to 9th position after passing both of them, where he stays until the finish of the race.
V.Kazantzas has an interesting evening. After avoiding some accidents on lap 1, drove safe and clean & won some battles. He climbed with his FOX on 6th position which lost from GTA Ady after a battle between them on laps 6-8. After pitting on lap 15 falls to 9th and six laps after, he gives his position to his teammate B.Chalariswho was faster at the last laps of the race.
Surviving T1 crashes, C.Panoulas, climbs from 6th to 3rd position. One lap later, [ZIOM]mulas_jr hits the wall on chicane and spectates being unable to drive his car. C.Panoulas finds himself as leader of the race on lap 9 taking advantage of the pitstops of the drivers in front of him. He decides to pit on lap 9 and drops to 5th position which holds until lap 20. The ending of lap 22 found Panoulas and HomeRunOlm fighting for second place, a battle that last until the end of the race. On the final lap, exiting the last turn, HomeRunOlm being on C.Panoulas’ slipstream makes his move just 400 metres before finish line & manages to finish ahead of him just for one hundrenth of second. Continue reading
OLFSL Round 6 Qualification Results
Published 27 June, 2011
Not long after Round 4, Original LFS League travels again to South City. This time the configuration will be the Chicane Route, which the normal direction of it goes the opposite way to the other South City tracks using the same start/finish line.
In those 2.9km of the track B.Chalaris once again was the fastest driver of the team & the third fastest of the sixty-seven participants with 1:01.96, just three tenths off the pole position.
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Not bad considering the circumstances
Published 24 June, 2011HRteam runs out of luck on Blackwood Rallycross. Starting from 3rd & 5th position on the 5th race of the season, B.Chalaris and V.Kazantzas, didn’t manage to reach the podium.
V.Kazantzas had his moment a couple of turns after red lights gone off. He gets hit from DTM^Baris at turn 4 and loses some places & at turn 5 misses the racing line, hits a pole with the rear left of his car resulting to a broken suspension. B.Chalaris on the other hand was making a good and stable race from the 3rd position until lap 25 where Chalaris, Coulti & Baris were having a battle for the last position of the podium.
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