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Welcome to the Team Shark Online Racing website.

Founded in 1993 with brother Dave 'Gizmo' Gymer, Team Shark is an active online racing team run by co-founder Simon 'Shark' Gymer. The team is currently participating in online racing competitions using games like GTR 2, iRacing and GT Legends, continuing a long and illustrious history in the simulation racing genre.

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NEW DOWNLOAD: Download (GTR 2, GTR2 Lotus Exige Car Skin), Friday, February 05, 2010

NEW DOWNLOAD: Download (GTR 2, GTR2 Lotus Elise Car Skin), Friday, February 05, 2010

NEW DOWNLOAD: Download (GTR 2, GTR2 Ferrari 430 Car Skin), Friday, February 05, 2010

NEW SETUP: Setup (iRacing, Lotus 79, Sebring (International)), uploaded by Gizmo, Friday, February 05, 2010

NEW DOWNLOAD: Download (GTR 2, GTR2 Porsche 997 RSR Car Skin), Thursday, February 04, 2010

Series News - GTR 2 > SimRacing.org.uk > UKGTR Endurance

by Prof, Monday, January 04, 2010

UKGTR Season 11 - Race 5 - Spa

The Team Shark GTC drivers started the second half of the season at Spa famous in real life for its ever changing micro-climate. This certainly proved true on this particular race night which challenged the whole field to the limit.

Qualifying started on a wet track which was drying fairly fast. Picnic got to grips quickly with the conditions with the Spyker and was faster than some of the slower GT1 drivers for most of the session. Prof managed to get runs in on wet, intermediate and dry tyres and was on a promising lap when the session ended leaving him second behind Picnic. Dave had done little or no wet weather driving and ended up six spaces further back on the grid.

As the drivers prepared their wet race setups, the track turned from wet to damp and Teamspeak was full of 'What should we do now? type questions. Unfortunately no one guessed right.

Picnic and Prof started on slicks hoping things would get drier as they had in practice. Gizmo started on inters which proved no better once the rain got harder and harder. All Team Shark GTC drivers needed to pit early for wet tyres which cost places to those who had started on wets.

Slowly the Sharks made their way up through the field as others made mistakes in the wet, slippery conditions. Picnic's scheduled stop coincided with a period of drier weather and he put slicks on hoping to be the first to make the most of the improving conditions. Unfortunately things did not stay dry for long and soon the deluge returned forcing Prof to cancel his pit request for dry tyres (one lap further on the wets saved him from Picnic's fate). After Picnic left the game, Prof and Gizmo battled on to the end on the wet tyres being too far behind those who guessed right and started on wets to finish 3rd and 5th.

Not the best result after a 1-2 in qually but useful points for Team Shark who in the absence of Ginsters gained a few points on the Kerb Crawlers in the team championship. Prof has temporarily borrowed the GTC championship lead from SbG who will be expecting to regain it when we race at Magny next time.

Series News - GTR 2 > SimRacing.org.uk > UKGTR Endurance

by Prof, Monday, December 21, 2009

UKGTR Season 11 - Race 4 - Oschersleben

The Team Shark GTC team gathered at a cold, wet Oschersleben for the half-way race of Season 11. Qualifying was a bit of a lottery in the very wet conditions where merely staying on the track whilst bringing tyres up to temperature was difficult in itself. As usual Ginsters was miles faster than the other GTCs in his Spyker (and some of the GT1 drivers too for much of qualifying). Pete mastered the wet conditions best of the Sharks to grab second with Prof in fourth and Dave two spaces further back.

With everyone expecting it to be wet all race, setup adjustments were made accordingly. As expected SbG zoomed ahead with Pete trying hard to minimise the gap. Prof was stuck for the early laps behind Matt Rowe and although he felt faster in some parts of the track, he got nowhere near an overtake until Matt fell off on his red hot soft wet tyres. Prof stopped very early for slicks when the rain stopped to try to catch the leaders but although he had better pace, it was also easier to make mistakes. Dave made steady progress on his wet tyres benefitting as others made mistakes to progress through the field to tenth place before he stopped for slicks after an hour. Pete made similarly sensible progress by staying in the track as others fell off and profited when SbG made a rare mistake to take a richly deserved win for his consistency during the race.

The other GTC Sharks kept things safe to the end to wrap up a second Team Shark 1-2-3 of the week and in the process grabbing a narrow lead in the GTC championship. Keeping that lead will remain a huge challenge for the second part of the season.

Series News - iRacing > SimRacing.org.uk > UKiR

by Shark, Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Road America - Fun Race

With the inagural Dallara IndyCar race at SimRacing.org.uk getting underway at Road America for a fun event, Team Shark entered 4 drivers for this first event; Simon Gymer, Dave Gymer, Pete Allnutt and Robert Burton.

The team entered the race with a lack of experience in the IndyCar, only Dave having done some public races in the official series at iRacing.com. Indeed the other 3 drivers had barely even strapped themselves in the car before.

After some much needed time in the car in the practice and qualifying sessions Dave and Simon Gymer began in 4th and 5th positions, with Rob and Pete 11th and 12th for the rolling start. However, Simon immediately got the jump on Dave at the start and with the top 3 cars taking each other out at turn one Simon briefly took the lead. Not wanting to hold Dave up for long, Simon let Dave through into the braking at the end of the first long straight. From then on Dave never looked back and easily took the victory.

Simon's race soon hotted up with some side-by-side action with long time rival from the Legends Racing team, TrueTom. A touch between the cars whilst trying to get through the fast right hander half way around the circuit saw the Legends driver spin out. This briefly allowed the fast starting Rob to take 2nd, but he soon made mistakes to let Simon back through into 2nd.

Meanwhile Pete had worked his way into a podium position that despite some flirtations in bits of the countryside he kept it going until the end.

After the pitstops had worked themselves out, Team Shark found themselves 1st, 2nd and 3rd where they stayed for a great first result for the team in the Dallara IndyCar.

Event results at SimRacing.org.uk and full event details and statistics at iRacing (for members only).

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	Type: Driver Position: Runner Up Series: Prototype Challenge, Division 3 (Race), Season 4 (2010) Driver(s): Gizmo
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