2015 ISOWC IndyCar Series

2015 ISOWC season

ISOWC IndyCar Series
Season
Races	19 16
Start date	21 March
End date	29 August 19 July
Season champion
Michel de Jonge

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The 2015 ISOWC IndyCar Series was the 5th season of the International Simulated Open Wheel Championship. Its premier event was the ISOWC Indy 500, which was planned to take place on 16th of August but was cancelled. Michael Dinkel was the defending champion but did not participate the season.

The season was put into a halt after Watkins Glen due to low participation. There was talk to cancel the rest of the races except pushing back the ISOWC Indy 500 date to 4th of October, but ultimately the premier event did not happen neither.

After 15 out of 19 originally planned races, Michel de Jonge won his first title in the series while also being crowned the road course champion. Oval champion Chad Simpson finished runner-up overall.

The series did not return for a 6th season in 2016. ISOWC was eventually revived 6 years later in 2021, starting at Watkins Glen, where the series folded in 2015.

Teams and Drivers

All chassis were composed of a Dallara DW-12 "IndyCar Safety Cell" base and Dallara aerokit. All teams ran Firestone tires.

Team	No.	Driver	Round(s)

Schedule

Round	Date	Event name	Circuit	Duration	Location
1	21 March		O Homestead-Miami Speedway - Oval	228 Laps	Homestead, Florida
2	4 April		R Sebring International Raceway - Modified	85 Laps	Sebring, Florida
3	11 April		O Pocono Raceway - Oval	200 Laps	Long Pond, Pennsylvania
4	18 April		O Phoenix Raceway - Oval	225 Laps	Avondale, Arizona
5	25 April		R Barber Motorsports Park - Full Course	68 Laps	Leeds, Alabama
6	1 May		R Brands Hatch Circuit - Indy	165 Laps	West Kingsdown, Kent, England
7	10 May		R Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Road Course	50 Laps	Speedway, Indiana
8	16 May		R Road America - Full Course	38 Laps	Plymouth, Wisconsin
9	30 May		R Circuit Zolder - Grand Prix	53 Laps	Heusdon-Zolder, Limborg, Belgium
10	6 June		O Texas Motor Speedway - Oval	250 Laps	Fort Worth, Texas
11	13 June		R Circuit Gilles Villeneuve	50 Laps	Montréal, Québec, Canada
12	20 June		R Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca - Full Course	65 Laps 50 laps	Monterey, California
13	27 June		O Auto Club Speedway - Oval	250 Laps	Fontana, California
14	11 July		O The Milwaukee Mile	250 Laps	West Allis, Wisconsin
15	19 July		O Iowa Speedway - Oval	250 Laps	Newton, Iowa
16	25 July		R Watkins Glen International - Boot	45 Laps	Watkins Glen, New York
17	1 August		R Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course - Full Course	68 Laps	Lexington, Ohio
18	16 August	2015 ISOWC Indy 500	O Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Oval	200 Laps	Speedway, Indiana
19	29 August		R Sonoma Raceway	64 Laps	Sonoma, California

Season Summary

Race Results

Round	Circuit	Pole Position	Fastest lap	Most laps lead	Race Winner		Broadcast
					Driver	Team
1	Homestead	Brandon Traino	Nigel Marneef	Brandon Traino	Andy de Ruiter	No Nonsense Racing
2	Sebring	Andreas Werner	Tim Holgate	Tim Holgate	Tim Holgate	Privateer
3	Pocono	Michel de Jonge	Benjamin Gregory	Chad Simpson	Chad Simpson	Satellite Racing with MadCape Racing and Andwerndesign
4	Phoenix	Erick Davis	Tim Holgate	Tim Holgate	Tim Holgate	Privateer
5	Barber Motorsports Park	Michel de Jonge	Michel de Jonge	Michel de Jonge	Michel de Jonge	MadCape Racing with Andwerndesign
6	Brands Hatch	Nigel Marneef	Nigel Marneef	Andreas Werner	Nigel Marneef	Last Lap Motorsports
7	Indianapolis GP	Nigel Marneef	Nigel Marneef	Derek M Murray	Derek M Murray	Last Lap Motorsports
8	Road America	Nigel Marneef	Nigel Marneef	Nigel Marneef	Nigel Marneef	Last Lap Motorsports
9	Zolder	Chad Simpson	No starter
10	Texas	Vic Caudill	Michel de Jonge	Chad Simpson	Chad Simpson	Satellite Racing with MadCape Racing and Andwerndesign
11	Montréal	Andrew Kinsella	Andreas Werner	Tim Miller	Tim Miller	Privateer
12	Laguna Seca	Erick Davis	Erick Davis	Erick Davis	Erick Davis	Banshee Autosport
13	Fontana	Christian Steele	Ryan Norton	Christian Steele	Christian Steele	vApex Racing
14	Milwaukee	Christian Steele	Christian Steele	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Vortex SimRacing
15	Iowa	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Marco Aurelio Brasil	Vortex SimRacing
16	Watkins Glen	Dave Jinks	Dave Jinks	Andrew Kinsella	No finisher

Points were not awarded for round 9, 12, and 16.

Scoring System

Race

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23rd	24th	25th+
Points	50	40	35	32	30	28	26	24	22	20	19	18	17	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5

Extra

Criteria	Points
Pole Position	2
Fastest Race Lap	2
Most Laps Led	2

Standing

Pos. Driver HMS SEB POC PHX ALA BRH IGP ROA ZOL TEX CGV LAG FON MIL IOW WGL Points 1 Michel de Jonge 2 3 14 4 1* 3 2 2 3 DNS 11 368 2 Chad Simpson 4 7 1* 9 7 5 6 5 DNS 1* 348 3 Erick Davis 5 6 2 3 4 17 14 14 1* 8 264 4 Andrew Kinsella 25 8 10 8 15 4 2 4 2 3 2* 261 5 Scott W Smith 10 14 13 14 11 8 8 5 6 DNS 4 7 257 6 Andreas Werner 29 4 18 3 2 2* 6 4 242 7 Vic Caudill 5 12 2 6 11 2 217 8 Rachael Whiteford 16 16 7 5 10 7 6 DNS 13 201 9 Benjamin Gregory 30 12 10 7 3 3 9 DNS 4 199 10 Dave Jinks 17 10 5 7 9 2 1 181 11 Nigel Marneef 20 1 3 1* DNS 178 12 Niall McBride 9 15 10 DNS 4 13 12 2 DNS 175 13 Leandro Souza Mattos 15 11 5 6 5 6 169 14 Tim Miller 19 11 6 11 7 1* 3 155 15 Marco Aurelio Brasil 26 4 1* 1 150 16 Stuart Pomfrey 28 23 8 DNS 13 9 DNS 5 129 17 Martijn Nagelkerken 12 4 15 8 121 18 Michael A Jones 13 10 9 5 10 2 3 119 19 Tim Holgate 1* 1* 108 20 Christian Steele 16 1* 3 107 21 Kleber Bottaro Moura 9 DNS 10 7 106 22 Oakley Higham 8 6 15 13 99 23 Andy de Ruiter 1 9 17 98 24 Stefan Remedy 3 11 89 25 Georg Naujoks 20 4 3 87 26 TM Hauser 18 9 15 6 77 27 Matt Strand 17 19 12 14 69 28 Leonardo Santos 21 12 4 68 29 Nick Rowland 23 22 5 15 68 30 Derek M Murray 1* DNS 66 31 Austin Espitee 3 18 DNS 65 32 Philippe Lambert 26 16 5 63 33 Ashley Blake-Hood 12 18 4 DNS 62 34 Diederik Kinds 11 25 9 51 35 Richard Hollyday 5 12 48 36 Paul M. Smith 12 8 DNS 42 37 Joshua Chin 2 40 38 Brandon Traino 6* 32 39 Kip Stephens 6 28 40 Ryan Norton 7 28 41 Ryan Littlemore 22 11 27 42 Miguel Angel Martinez 7 26 43 Kevin Ellis Jr 24 16 26 44 Carlos Passos 8 24 45 Paul Jennings DNS 24 46 Randy Crossno DNS 22 47 Aaron Gearing 10 20 48 Pierre Bourden DNS 20 49 Galen Gidman 11 19 50 Wim Stockmans 13 17 51 Philip Johansson 13 17 52 Alexander Trowbridge 14 16 53 Pete Newman 14 16 54 Joseph J Hassert 17 13 55 Cam Stark 21 9 56 Gino van den Broecke 24 6 57 Oscar Mangan 27 5 58 JB Massida 31 5

Color Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green 4th & 5th place Light Blue 6th – 10th place Dark Blue Finished Purple Did not finish Red Did not qualify Black Disqualified / Excluded White Did not start Blank Did not participate In-line notation Bold Pole position Italics Ran fastest race lap * Most laps led

References

Race results (Danlisa) [1]

Race results (in-game) [2]

ISOWC website (Wayback Machine archive) [3]

2015 ISOWC forum thread [4]