Roster :: Orion Race Team

Title:: Driver
Number:: 2
Country:: Finland
Year Born:: 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 79 Series
4th Place rFactor.org 79 - Demo League
1st Place in 2 legs of Lienz Festival of Speed
1st Place VMS WTCC Winter Cup
1st Place VMS BMW E21 Challenge
1st Place 2009 Simdianapolis 500

iRacing:
1st Place Advanced Solstice TT Overall 2008 Summer
2nd Place Star Mazda TT Overall 2008 Season 3
2nd Place Star Mazda TT Overall 2008 Season 4
1st Place Star Mazda TT Overall 2009 Season 1

Title:: Driver/Web Design
Number:: 18
Country:: Canada
Year Born:: 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 - 2008 MNRL TRCS Season 4 Champion
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)

iRacing Seasons
Overall
1st Place - 2009-S3 Riley DP Overall Points Champion
1st Place - 2009-S2 Radical SR8 Points Champion
1st Place - 2009-S1 Riley DP Overall Time Trial Champion
2nd Place - 2009-S1 Radical SR8 Overall Points
2nd Place - 2008-S4 Radical SR8 Time Trail Overall (tie for 2nd)
3rd Place - 2009-S2 Riley DP Overall Points
3rd Place - 2009 Pro Series
Division
1st Place - 2009-S3 Riley DP Division 1 Points Champion
1st Place - 2009-S2 Radical SR8 Division 1 Points Champion
1st Place - 2009-S2 Riley DP Divison 2 Points Champion
1st Place - 2009-S1 Radical SR8 Division 3 Points Champion
1st Place - 2008-S4 Radical SR8 Time Trail Division 2 Champion

Part-Time/Current Seasons
Currently Running in iRacing
Running in 2010 Drivers World Championship

Country:: Italy

Max Dell'Orco is extremely well known for his amazing pace dating all the way back to the days of GP2. Racing at the top level of sims such as GP3, F1C, GTR and GTR2, and now iRacing, Max has cemented his legacy in the sim world as one of the fastest in the world. Max was also the creator and moderator of the popular Sim-Challenge League in where not only did he manage it, he competed in it and competed at the highest level. In iRacing Max has already shown that this sim will be no different, as he appears at the top of the charts of whatever car he is racing at the time.

Title:: Driver
Number:: 91
Country:: Australia
Year Born:: 1994

Born in 1994. He started full time sim-racing with iRacing. He Is part of the Orion Race Team family, and has won the 2009 Vader Endurance Lemans 24 hours with NASCAR 2003, and came 2nd in the Bullrun 1000 for 2009. Championship Winner of the iRacing Riley Daytona Prototype Series in 2009 Season 2. Also the youngest ever iRacing championship winner of 15 years and 3 months. Also has a NASCAR Rank of -73.103

Title:: Driver
Country:: Netherlands
Year Born:: 1996

Jeffrey started sim racing 3 years ago when he got a momo wheel for his birthday and started playing Need for Speed. But he wanted to drive race cars not 'pimped' stuff. A friend of his told him about rFactor, so he bought it and started racing in a league called beneluxracingonline. He has been driving there for almost 2 years now, where he won some championships and had some great battles.

Now Jeffrey has found iRacing, subscribed, and started driving with the rookie solstice. He climbed up pretty quickly, and bought other cars and tracks. Now Jeffrey is one of the fastest drivers in the service with blazing speed for such a young age (14 yrs old when he joined Orion).

But sim racing wasn't Jeffrey's only hobby, he has also been R/C racing since 2004. Also he took 2 seasons in a row, 2 championships at his local racing club. RCP-Racing helped him along the way, and he now has 5 sponsors. Last year Jeffrey took a break from R/C cars to focus more on sim racing.

Right now his focus is on iRacing and the Pro Series. He also wants to be a real life racing driver, and hopes he may one day get a chance through sim racing.

To date (March 23, 2010) 112 starts already in the 2010 S1 and finished all his races in the top 5 and won 103 of them.

Title:: Driver
Number:: 43
Country:: Netherlands
Year Born:: 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

Title:: Driver/Team Captain
Number:: 19
Country:: Canada
Year Born:: 1973

2David 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

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)
MNRL TRCS GT Challenge - 2nd (4 wins)

2009:
MNRL TRCS NAGT - Champion (4 wins)
MNRL MIRL Cart 95 - 2nd (5 wins)
MNRL TWOD ORR2 Trucks - 3rd (1 win)
MNRL MIRL Cart 95 season 2 - 2nd (1 win)
MNRL TRCS NAGT season 2 - 11th (4 races, 3 wins)
Simdy 500 - Qualified 4th/DNF
Bullrun 1000 - 2nd (Frosty St Clair, Peter Read)

iRacing:
Solstice Season 3B - 2nd Time Trial

Current:
MNRL MIRL Cart Factor

iRacing Skip Barber

Number:: 87
Country:: United States
Year Born:: 1-15-87

Brian started sim racing in 2006 with Live for Speed. He competed in the League of the Americas, Masters of Endurance, and the International Grand Touring Car Championship. Since May of 2008, he has been racing iRacing exclusively.

Accomplishments
1st Place - iRacing 2009 Season 2 Radical Time Trial Championship
1st Place - iRacing 2009 Season 1 Radical Race Championship
4th Place - iRacing 2008 Season 4 Radical Race Championship

Country:: Hungary
Year Born:: 1990

Known mainly in GPL and the GPL World Cup racing for Hungary, Szabi has one of the best rankings in GPL today. Nowadays he's racing in iRacing and rFactor with open wheeler cars, but had a great Le Mans race with the GTP Mod of Papy's Nascar Racing Season 2003.
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!

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
GPL World Cup 4th Position with Hungary

rFactor

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

Nascar Racing Season 2003

GTP 2009 24hrs of Le Mans Champion/Pole setter

iRacing

2009 - Season 3 - Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series - 2nd Pos. (overall)
2009 - Season 3 - Classic Lotus Grand Prix Series - Champion (3rd Division)

Country:: France
Year Born:: 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.

Country:: Finland

Markus has been around sim racing for quite some time. Back to the days of GP2, but iRacing is his first serious effort and it has been nothing short of an impressive one. He has shown pace capable of racing with all the world's top road racers, and it doesn't seem to matter which car he is in. Look for Markus at the top of a time sheet near you!

- 2008 Season 3 Legends Road Racing Cup Championship - 1st Overall
- 2008 Season 3 Legends Road Racing Cup Time Trial - 1st Overall

Country:: Brazil
Year Born:: 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
Number:: 27
Country:: United States
Year Born:: 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 iRacing. 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:
1st iRacing Prototype Challenge (Div. 5) 2010 season 1
2nd iRacing 2010 Rolex 2.4 (Div. 9)
2nd iRacing Radical Racing Challenge (Div. 6) 2009 season 1
1st GT Sim Racing NAGT Series 2008
2nd MNRL TRCS Season 3 2008
1st MNRL TRCS Season 3 Team Championship 2008
1st SSCA 12hr @ Daytona GT Class 2008
3rd SSCA 8hr @ the Ring GT Class 2008
5th Flog Sprint Series GT Class 2007
8th Flog Magenes League 2006
1st Simcar 2006-3 NORAM Team Championship
2nd Simcar 2006-3 NORAM
3rd MNRL GTP2 2005 Team Championship
Top 10 MNRL GTP2 2005
2nd BRSC TPTCC 2004
1st BRSC Season 1 2004
2nd GPLemans Season 1 2000

Number:: 12
Country:: Brazil
Year Born:: 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 in 2008 to join iRacing's beta testing.

Highlights:

Iracing
Daytona Prototype Challenge
Season 1 - 2009
1st place

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
Number:: 10
Country:: France
Year Born:: 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:: Driver/Public Relations
Number:: 23
Country:: United States
Year Born:: 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.

Title:: Team Manager
Country:: United States

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)
1st Place - SSCA Co-GT Champions Endurance Season 2008 (shared with SFH)
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