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.

Fredrik Tackman, married to Åsa Tackman and father to Emil and Olle Tackman. Runs a 7 eleven type store at the bus station in Östersund, Sweden.

Started simracing with GP2 in 1997, moved on to EA:s F1 titles before running Nascar 4 and 2003 for about a year or so. Discovered Sim-Challenge on the net and drove ETCC, GTR and GTR2 there with some success at times. Moved along to SSR (Swedish Sim Racers) and later to the STC (Simracing Team Challenge) league with DMSv (Danielsson Motorsport Virtual). Have lately gone to iRacing and been driving the Skip Barber and Trucks.

My only championship was in NAR (NoAidsRacing - yeah that's a hell of a name, which I tried to get changed...hehe) in 2003.

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)