After one and a half season of the Simracing team Challenge I felt it was time to ask the person in charge some more in dept questions. Here is what he had to say.

As CEO for the Simracing Team Challenge you are the one that have really made this league work together of course with compatriot David García. Halfway through the second season there have been both ups and downs. In general, are you happy with the start of the championship?
I'm happy but still we had some technical problems so I have the sensation that we can still improve the series.
We are preparing a new look for the broadcasts for Donington and following rounds that will make the visual experience more interesting. At this point our aim is to not only atract interest from teams, but also from simracers that want to have a nice time watching the series and enjoying high quality racing.

The teams seems happy with how the championship is built up with them being involved in the decisions to the schedule and other stuf. Has it worked out as planned?
Yes, I think we can say the teams have the series they want. Of course that requires an extra effort of from them because we are proposing changes (or other teams) and they are forced to arguments and decisions very often, but that was our aim from the first moment, giving teams the power to have control over the challenge.

Are there times when you regret the WAR system?
Honestly, yes, sometimes, like any time you propose a thing you think is very good and is rejected... but I'm sure the teams have the same sensation too sometimes, it's normal when you want to do things together.

But in overall I have to say I'm more satisfied with WAR than I expected, I had many doubts and also a lot of mates were sure that it wouldn't work...

Before the season it was stated that there would be add-on cars availale to pick as rides. This, after testing, got the thumbs down from several teams. Will we see a new try of this in the future?
Probably the time to introduce a minor Evo Mod is gone. This mod was only stetical as the physics were cloned from standard cars, but in practice the teams were not very interested.

What I would love to see is mixed class racing. We rejected it because we suspected with one car class we would see more battles, but now I think it is better to have 10 cars fighting for 10 top positions in each class. Maybe this will be discussed again at the end of this season together with other proposals from staff or teams.

There have been talks to change simulator as the GTR Evo sim has a number of bugs in it. There were an open poll where all the teams members could make there voice heared. You were for a change to rFactor but it got turned down. Your view of the result?
Well, from an organisation point of view rFactor has more potential as allows bigger grids, has great mods, and is very stable but still I race more on Evo, and most of us come from RPMnet/RD which was/is mostly a SIMBIN games community, even if rFactor has a bigger presence day by day, so I can understand why a lot of guys were against move to a simulator they don't know as good as Evo.

What frustrates me is we have lost some important features we had in GTR2 such as tyre compounds, night racing...

Both in the first and now second season teams has come and gone. There is still the many dedicated teams in the championship but are there any risk of losing more teams (Sonic Racing, Team Northern Ireland and Torrent Motorsports have either quit the league or not showed up for a number of races)?.. and are we seing any new team in the short future?
We have different teams interested in join the series, but we have limited slots that this year are filled with GMT-DHR and FlatOut junior teams that normally are showing in all races and having a great commitment, so we have to be 200% sure that the team entering is going to be present every race and for more than one season. At this momment I'm very happy with our junior teams.

One main goal of the league is to make it as professional as possible and with that you have the races broadcasted via PSRtv. There have however been a number of issues with the broadcast; PSRtv not showing up, servers catching fire etc. Are you thinking of alternative solutions?
Actually we have both race server and broadcast backups. In case of broadcast not of same high quality but still enough to follow the race in an emergency (mogulus).

We were the first league broadcasting Race07 + addons on PSRtv so both Ian, his crew and us had to deal with some problems and limitations, so most of the technical problems comes from there.

We had several disconnections at the beginning of first season because the "spectator mode" doesn't work properly on GTR Evo...

While we are at the subject of exposure, STC had an addvert in the latest episode of Inside Sim Racing. Will we see more of this kind of publisity moves in any other places aswell?
For the momment, because our budget goes away with broadcasts, we are limited to kindly collaborations like InsideSimRacing.tv or RaceDepartment news do with us, but we expect to get some sponsors in the future and be able to grow also in this way.