2017-II Race4Speed GP1 Season



The 2017-II Season of the R4S GP1 League is scheduled to be the 4th GP1 Season by Race4Speed and will start as rFactor series with 30 races on 10 weekends. The season will start in Bahrain on 6 August and end in Brazil on 3 December.

Marc Stwerka will be the defending Drivers' champion. His team, Repsol Swinegel Racing, will take part in the series as defending Constructors' Champions.

The Series will use once again the P-02C/17 chassis by 3D artist haunetal1990 in this season.

Teams and Drivers
Joining GP1
 * After appearing as guest driver in 2017-I, Mateusz Stasiak will make his full-time debut with Shadow Wolf RT by RSR.

Changing teams
 * Vice champion Constantin Grimminger announced on July 2nd that he'll retire from a full-time entry and return only for selected events with series returnees Team GM.
 * After 1.5 seasons with Repsol Swinegel Racing, Cristian Alvarez joins his former team Shadow Wolf RT which is runned by Swinegel Racing now.
 * Francisco Vazquez will leave the Prototype Racing Academy to join the reigning Constructors' Champions of Repsol Swinegel Racing.
 * Jesus Marcano switches from the now defunct Unnamed's Race Team to Ecodrom Prototype Racing, replacing Grimminger.

Mid-season changes
 * After the first half of the season Jesús Chirinos switched from his own team Black Force Racing to Ecodrom Prototype Racing to replace his squad member Jesus Marcano.
 * Shadow Wolf RT by RSR replaced Mateusz Stasiak with Edwin Torres for the last three events.
 * Martin Jatzek wanted to compete with his own team for their last ever event, switching from CGD Racing by Team GM to Ecodrom Prototype Racing for the last event. Thus Chirinos had to switch to CGD Racing by Team GM, but didn't compete at all.

Race calendar and results
A provisional ten-round calendar was announced on 3 July 2017.

Drivers' Championship
Bold – Pole (Race 1 only) Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes:
 * † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship
Bold – Pole (Race 1 only) Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes:
 * † — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.