The HSO Gold Star Prize Fund

We are pleased to introduce a prize fund for the 2023 HSO Gold Star series of races with the 1954 Endurance mod of rFactor 2. The prize fund consists of several pieces of racing memorabilia related to 1950s sportscars.

Congratulations to Niklas Kirsten for having accumulated the most Gold Star points over the four series!

Final Standings:

243 Niklas Kirsten
194 Rhys Gardiner
179 Martin Bayer
177 Erwann Burguiere
171 Matt Wright
170 Darren Andrews
137 Robin de Vos
122 Nicolas Hillebrand
105 Tom Dee
102 Matias Estrela
97 Isidoro Jauregi
91 Myfanwy Fflur
80 Mark A. Warmington
75 Mark Johnson
64 Franek Godrecki
58 Donat Prodan
55 Petr Hlavac
54 David Purchase
53 Rory MacDuff
51 Jonathan Dee
50 Austin Burchfield
49 Krzysztof Babij
46 Lari Salminen
44 Stef Hermans
40 Martin Jaspers
40 Ryley Wyans
38 Ricardo Mendes
36 Rob de Vries
31 Henry L. Smith
25 Jim Carvalho
23 Gérard Ryon
22 Declan Brush
21 Bruno Chacon
20 Jukka Narhi
18 Frank Verplanken, Christian Dauger
15 Ragnar Loddelbrog
14 John Cook
09 Pascal Mikula
06 Jackson Robillard, Giovanni Centorame
04 Abigail Edwards, Honza Mild, Karel Marciniszyn
03 Liudvik Askinis, Jake William
02 Mia Rose, Pau Casajuana, Cezariusz Czlapinski


I have dug into my racing memorabilia to establish the fund, but all items are in good to new condition. For now the fund contains the following items :

• one issue of 1954 Autosport weekly magazine (UK) covering the Tourist Trophy (Vol.IX, #12, Sep 17)
  
• one issue of 1954 Motor Racing monthly magazine (UK) covering the Le Mans 24 Hours (Vol.VIII, #1, August)
  
• a Targa Florio keychain
  
• a b&w picture of Moss in the Jaguar at the TT (15x10cm)
  
• a vintage sticker of Spa-Francorchamps
  
• a poster featuring all the winnings cars at Le Mans 1923-2000 (59x44cm)
  

A few more items will be added to the list along the year.

A preview of some of the items featured :

A lovely gesture and too generous.

Thanks to Martin Bayer, there will be a surprise prize for the winner of the 1954 Gold Star series : a free key to the Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game .

As a reminder, the title chase is way open before tonight's last race with Niklas (57 pts), Erwann (56) and Matt (55) in a very close fight for the honour. Please note that only the best five results will be retained, so both Niklas and Matt will have to drop one if they score tonight, giving Erwann quite an advantage as he only scored four times so far.

Anyways, many thanks again to Martin for his offer

Overall points updated with 1954 series results

Overall points updated with 1955 series results

Niklas starting to look good for the prize ! But nothing is set yet, six races to go !