Roster :: Orion Race Team

Title:: Driver/Team Captain
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 19
Country:: Canada
DOB:: 1973

David has always been a road racing fan. He has always played racing games on his computer. From Test Drive on C64 back in the 80s to Indy 500 The Simulator from Papyrus, then with Grand Prix Legend at the end of the 90s. Meanwhile, he did Karting competition from 1996 to 2002 in real life. His first online season was back in 2001. Since then, he has participated to many online leagues, most of them on road tracks.

Karting accomplishments
1996 3rd - Montreal Cup (4-stroke)
1996 9th - Quebec Cup (4-stroke)
1997 Champion - Montreal Cup (4-stroke)
1997 Champion - Eastern Cup (4-stroke)
1997 Champion - Quebec Cup (4-stroke)
1998 5th - Montreal Cup (F125)
1998 13th - Quebec Cup (F125)
1999 7th - Montreal Cup (F125)
2000 Champion - Montreal Cup (Rotax)
2000 Champion - National Championsip (Rotax)
2000 World Championship participant at Puertorico (Rotax)
2001 Champion - Montreal Cup (Rotax)
2001 3rd - National Championsip (Rotax)
2001 World Championship participant at Malaysia (Rotax)
2002 3rd - Montreal Cup (Rotax)
2002 3rd - Quebec Cup (Rotax)

81 races
43 podiums
22 wins
18 pole positions
1 national title
1 provincial title
4 regionals titles
2 world championship participantions

Online accomplishments
2001 2nd place - QGPL
2002 Champion - QGPL
2003 Champion - QGPL
2004 Champion - SSCA TransAm
2004 Bullrun 1000 winner (with Patrick Veillette)
2005 Champion - SSCA GTP 2005 2nd - MNRL GTP
2006 Champion - SimFia DTM 2006 2nd at the Bullrun 1000 (with Frosty St-Clair)
2006 Champion - FLOG Megane Championship
2007 Champion - FLOG GT Series 2007 Champion - FLOG Sprint Series
2007 2nd place - MNRL Porsche Carrera Cup
2008 Champion - QGPL

Title:: Driver
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 2
Country:: Finland
DOB:: 1984

Ilkka started racing sims in 1994 with F1 GP using a keyboard. Since then he has gone on to race almost every GP sim out. Now he specializes in rFactor, and is well known throughout the community for his raw speed. Also known as TheFlyingFinn, he has some of the purest speed in sim racing to date. Finn is always a threat to win any race he enters, regardless of the mod.

Accomplishments:
rFactor:
2nd place F1 1979 Mod - RACER Alex Silverstone Challenge
3rd Place F1 1979 Mod - FLOG 79â Series
4th Place rFactor.org 79 - Demo League
1st Place in 2 legs of Lienz Festival of Speed

Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Country:: Brazil
DOB:: 1982

Leandro started sim racing in 1997 with IndyCar 2, and competed in his first internet league - the Indy Extended Circuit - the following year, placing 2nd in the championship and winning the Road Cup. After that, he's been successful in every sim he tried, winning many races and championships in GPL, NASCAR 4/2002/2003 and rFactor. He also impressed in real racing when had a chance to do it, taking the pole and winning the first race of the Trofeo Maserati Brasil 2004 with almost no experience.

Accomplishments:
IndyCar 2:
2nd place - Indy Extended Circuit (1998)
1st place - Indy Extended Circuit Road Cup (1998)

GPL:
1st place GPLBR F1 (1999, 2000, 2001, Spec 2001, 2002, S2 2003, Summer Championship 2004, S1 2004, S2 2004, S1 2005)
1st place GPLBR FD (2001, 2003, S1 2004)

NASCAR 4/2002/2003:
1st place LBN Extreme Series (2001, S1 2002, S2 2004, S1 2005, S1 2006, S2 2007, S1 2008)
1st place LBN Road Series PTA
1st place LBN Road Series GTP
1st place 24 Hours of Le Mans - Team Black Squirrel (2004)

rFactor:
1st place rFactor Brasil F-3W (T1 2006)

Real Racing:
Pole position and 1st place Trofeo Maserati Brasil - race 1 at Curitiba (2004)
4th place Trofeo Maserati Brasil - race 2 at Interlagos (2004)

Title:: Driver/Web Design
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 18
Country:: Canada
DOB:: 1983

Shawn started racing at the age of 5 with go-karts. He never had the money to get seriously into racing and when Grand Prix 2 came out in 1995 he started the beginning of his sim racing career. He raced offline for many years, from GP2, Nascar 2, Nascar 1999, Nascar 3, NR2002,NR2003,GTR To finally now in Rfactor.

Accomplishments:
NR2003
1st Place - 24 Hours of Lemans - Team Black Squirrel
1st Place - Champion TVR-Trans-Am
3rd Place - Overall WORRL Trans-Am

RFactor
Full Seasons
1st Place - 2007/08 MNRL TRCS Season 2 Champion
1st Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 1 Champion
1st Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 2 Champion
1st Place - 2007 PC Racers CST Protons Champion
2nd Place - 2007 Flog Sprint Series Season
3rd Place - 2007 Flog FIA-GT Season

Endurance Races/Special Events
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 1
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 2
1st Place - 2007 CanAm Road Course AllStar Season 3
1st Place - 2007 SSCA 6 hours of Watkins Glen (LMP)
2nd Place - 2007 SSCA 12 Hours of Daytona RC (LMP)

Part-Time Finished Seasons
12th Place - Toyota Atlantic CanAm Season 1(5 Starts) 15th Place - 2007 FIA-GT CanAm Season 3 (2 Starts)
23rd Place - Toyota Atlantic CanAm Season 2 (1 Start)

Part-Time/Current Seasons

Title:: Driver
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 43
Country:: Netherlands
DOB:: 1972

Dion started with NASCAR 4 with just 3 races to go in the Dutch NASCAR championship to try it out. Allthough he had pole in his first ever NASCAR race the results weren't very good. But it wasnât long after that before Dion showed what real talent he had as a sim racer. Dion went on to dominate and win many championships and was known as a true alien in Papy sims. Respected and liked throughout the community, Dion is always impressive.

Accomplishments:
rFactor:
4th Place - F1 1979 Mod - FLOG 79 - Series

GPL:
2 times Dutch GPL Champion
1 time Dutch GPLGP 100% Champion
1 time Dutch GPL65 Champion
3rd in GPLWS Season #5

Nascar Racing Season 2003:
2 times Dutch NASCAR Champion
1 time Dutch TA Champion
1 time DSZ "End of Days" TA Champion
1 time Dutch NASCAR Vice-Champion
1 time FFRL Vice-Champion Season 5 2004

Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 12
Country:: Brazil
DOB:: 07/31/81

Born in São Caetano do Sul, SP, Brazil.
Started to race online in 2004 with Papyrus' Nascar Racing 2003 Season then retired on 2008 to join iRacing's beta testing.

Highlights:

Nascar Racing 2003 Season
2008:
1st place: Farewell 500 at Indy

2007:
1st place: IROC
2nd place: Nordschleife challenge

2006:
1st place: Brazilian league CUP
1st place: Brazilian league CTS
1st place: IROC
1st place: European league Pennsylvania 300 race

2005:
1st place: Brazilian league Light Series CUP
1st place: Brazilian league CTS

2004:
1st place: Brazilian league ASA Series
2nd place: Brazilian league CTS Series

Title:: Driver/Web Design
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 10
Country:: France
DOB:: 1979

Julien is relatively new to sim racing. He already competes against the fastest sim racers on the planet, as his skills continue to grow. His preparation and attention to detail gives him an edge over most of the competition on track, and he is already one of the most consistent drivers in sim racing today.

Accomplishments:
rFactor:
1st Place - 2006 F1 1979 FFSCA Demo League
3rd place - 2006 F1 1979 RACER Alex Silverstone Challenge
5th Place - 2006 F1 1979 rFactor.org Demo League
1st Place - 2007 F1 1979 FFSCA Championship

Title:: Team Manager
Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Number:: 73
Country:: United States
DOB:: 1973

Frosty started sim racing in 2004. Since then he has gone on to win several championships. He also races R/C Cars and is sponsored by several factories.

Accomplishments:
1st Place - Overall iRacing Advanced Solstice Challenge Summer 2008
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 1
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 3
1st Place - MNRL GTP Overall Champion Season 4
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 4
1st Place - CanAm MCF1 Overall Champion Season 2
1st Place - CanAM MCF1 Team Champions Season 2
1st Place - PORRS rFactor Invite
1st Place - Racer Alex Proton Heat Race Winner
1st Place - SSCA 6 hours of Watkins Glen (LMP)
2nd Place - NORRA Cup Road Racing League
2nd Place - MNRL GTP Season 1
2nd Place - CanAm MCF1 Season 1
2nd Place - SSCA Endurance Watkins Glen
2nd Place - The US Pits Bullrun 1000 (2006)
3rd Place - RACER Alex MCF1 Track IR Challenge
3rd Place - SSCA Endurance Daytona RC
4th Place - Overall iRacing Skip Barber Challenge Summer 2008

Driver Team:: Orion - World Team
Country:: Hungary
DOB:: 1990

Known mainly in GPL and the GPL World Cup racing for Hungary, Szabi has one of the best rankings in GPL today. He is also trying make some time for some iRacing in between The GPL World Cup, and attending his university.
Szabi has been playing sims hard since 2005 when he started to play GPL. After 1 year practice he started at the Hungarian GPL Masters League and he won the Championship title at his first season! He raced 4 seasons at the league having great races and fun but nowadays he is concentrating to the GPL World Cup and iRacing!

Accomplishments:

GPL

HGPLM's 13th season's Champion
HGPLM's 14th season's 2nd pos.
HGPLM's 15th season's 2nd pos.
HGPLM's 16th season's 3rd pos.
Many poles, fastest laps and wins at the European Online Challenge's Pro Cup Series
GPL World Cup Finalist with Hungary

rFactor

rFactorCentral's 1995 CART Mod World Championship 3rd pos.

Driver Team:: Orion - National Team
Country:: United States
DOB:: 8-11-67

Attended my first race at the ripe age of a couple months old at Islip Speedway on L.I. in N.Y. and have been hooked ever since
Grew up on Nascar Type Modifieds and still love the groundpounding they deliver.(TV does not do these justice)

Moved to San Antonio TX. in Jan 87, and by 1990 was strapping into a Nascar Charger division car at S.A.Speedway.

in 95 finished 5th in points w/perfect attendance(a feat in itself)
in 96 finished 3rd in points again made every race(quite an accomplishment!!)
in 98 moved up to streetstocks where after 5 races and the car destroyed, my family went hungry, and i knew it was time to "let it go"

ive had indy 500, nascar 1 and 2, indycar 1 and 2 and N2002 but it wasnt till N2K3 that i got online, it had been some time since i got to race against Carbon Based opponents, and naturally , i was hooked

been in WORRL and SSCA trans am as well as MNRL GTP and Flog Megane and GT leagues.
am currently enjoying the iRacing simulation exclusively.

Title:: Driver
Driver Team:: Orion - National Team
Number:: 27
Country:: United States
DOB:: 1966

Chris started simracing with GPL in 1999. He spent many years racing in VROC. Chris got his first taste of online league racing in the first season of GPLemans. When NASCAR 2003 came out Chris got involved with more online racing. Chris now is enjoying all the mods associated with rFactor. When not racing online, Chris spends most of time with his wife and 2 kids. He also loves photography, sailboat racing and watching any form of motorsports.

Accomplishments:

2nd GPLemans 1st season 2000
1st BRSC 1st season 2004
2nd BRSC TPTCC 2nd 2004
Top 10 MNRL GTP2 2005
3rd MNRL GTP2 2005 Team Championship
2nd Simcar 2006-3 NORAM
1st Simcar 2006-3 NORAM Team Championship
8th Flog Magenes League 2006
5th Flog Sprint Series GT Class 2007
3rd SSCA 8hr @ the Ring GT Class 2008
1st SSCA 12hr @ Daytona GT Class 2008
1st MNRL TRCS Season 3 Team Championship 2008
2nd MNRL TRCS Season 3 2008

Title:: Driver
Driver Team:: Orion - National Team
Number:: 74
Country:: Canada
DOB:: 1956

Al started racing before sim racing was on the net. He is a seasoned veteran and a class act on and off the track. He is one of the most consistant racers around. Al also is also and ex slot car, and r/c car racing. A true race-a-holic at heart, wether it be sim racing, some other type, or watching it on TV.

Accomplishments:
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 3
1st Place - MNRL GTP Team Champions Season 4
1st Place - CanAM MCF1 Team Champions Season 2
2nd Place - SSCA Endurance Watkins Glen
3rd Place - CanAm MCF1 Season 2

Title:: Driver/Public Relations
Driver Team:: Orion - National Team
Number:: 23
Country:: United States
DOB:: 1958

Mike got bit by the racing bug when his Dad started racing in SCCA while he was in jr. high school. After college, as soon as he was able to scrape together enough money he went racing too. He ran SCCA national club races for 15 years. He won several class regional and divisional championships and earned 5 invitations to the national runoffs, then held at Road Atlanta. After retiring due to lack of time and money he got involved in R/C racing.

He discovered sim racing in 1998 when he saw an ad in Car and Driver magazine for GPL. Mike went out and bought the game, a video card to run it and a thrustmaster T2 wheel the next day. Now, nearly eight years, several wheels and untold computer ugrades later he's still hooked.

Mike started racing online in 1999 on VROC and was a founding member of the VROC F2 club which still races every Saturday morning. He raced in other GPL leagues including Eric Cote's GPLites, Peter Jensen's F2 League, SNRL and FATSO. He bought and tried the entire series of Papyrus Nascar titles but he's a roadie and never got the hang opf oval racing. When N2K3 came out he started road racing cup and then TA cars with SRRS and then MNRL's GTP league. Now hooked on rFactor running occasionally with SRRS again in the Advanced Trainers and with FLOG in the Megane series and now FIA GTs.

Mike is married with two grown kids and three Australian Shepherd dogs. His other interests include camping, fishing, golf and watching all/any kind of motorsport.

Driver Team:: Orion - National Team
Country:: Canada

Chris started sim racing in 2003 with F1-2002 and the GTR2002 mod, then later F1C. With limited online racing happening, Chris worked more on physics, and tested offline.

In 2007, Chris got back into online racing with rFactor. Stumbling upon an MNRL practice server, Chris joined his first true league, which contained a full roster of Orion Race Team drivers. This lead to a friendship between many Orion drivers on IRC, and that lead to Orion giving Chris the opportunity to race with the team in the SSCA Endurance league.

Career:

2003:
GoF1 F12k2 season 1 - Champion (8 wins)

2004:
GoF1 F1C season 2 - Champion (13 wins)

2007:
F1-Career Sim PCC07 - 3rd (2 wins)
MNRL TRCS PCC07 - 5th

2008:
MNRL ProtoProd - Champion (13 wins)
MNRL TRCS BMW320 - Champion (11 wins)
MNRL TRCS BMW320 Teams - 3rd (with Ron Beaty)
SSCA Endurance League (GT Class)
   - 3rd place 8hr Nurburgring (F. St Clair, J. Dill, C. Gennarelli)
   - 1st place 12 hr Daytona (F. St Clair, J. Dill, D. Decorps, C. Gennarelli)
   - 1st place 8 hr Sebring (F. St Clair, M. Dubois)
MNRL GP79 - 5th (5 races, 4 wins)
Bullrun 1000 - 4th (Shawn Purdy)

Current:
MNRL TRCS GT Challenge
MNRL MIRL CART 95

Title:: Driver / Instructor
Driver Team:: Inactive
Number:: 59
Country:: United States
DOB:: 1973

Chad started driving with Indycar Racing and NASCAR Racing while in college. He played with a keyboard and joystick for several years getting additional Papyrus titles along the way. His interest in sim racing really grew when his mom and brother gave him a his first racing wheel and NASCAR Racing 1999 for Christmas.

He joined his first league, NASSCAR.com, in their last season of offline racing. Then he spent several years racing in various divisions of their online series. Chad dabbled in various sims (Richard Burns Rally, GTR2, Live for Speed, etc.) but has spent most of his time in Papyrus sims.

Chad has also done some endurance racing in the Bullrun 1000 and SCCA 12 Hours at the Glen. He loves the added challenge in the longer races and the fun of racing directly with team mates. Chad hopes to do more endurance races in the future.

Recently, Chad has started doing instruction for drivers. He enjoys working with other drivers to improve their technique and sim racing experience. Chad plans to build on this by providing replays and track guides in addition to his on-track training.

Accomplishments:
2nd Place - 2003 Season Thunder Division @ NASSCAR.com
4th Place - 2003 Bullrun 1000
4th Place - 12 Hours at the Glen

Title:: Driver
Driver Team:: Inactive
Number:: 57
Country:: United States
DOB:: 1963

About: Ray started racing with Indy 500 back in the early 90's. Ray started racing competitively online in 2005, winning his first ever online league, NORRA. Since Ray has gone on to be always one of the quickest drivers on the track in any league he has raced in.

Accomplishments:
NORRA Champion 2006
MNLR TCRS Megane Champion 2007

Driver Team:: Inactive
Country:: France
DOB:: 1983

Davy is well known throughout Europe as one of the fastest drivers around. He has raced GPL, N2003, NKPro and now rFactor. While he is busy with school and internships, Davy still shows his talents on track when he has the time.