Lamborghini Esports: The Real Race 5, Zandvoort Results

The fifth race event of the 2021 edition of The Real Race presented by Lamborghini Esports took place over the 29th August weekend. The EMEA region was once again on display as the series went to Circuit Zandvoort, located in The Netherlands. The full results are available on The Real Race website. The series utilizes the Assetto Corsa Competizione platform.

ACC utilizes the 2019 version of the facility, which is not too different from the current model of the track sans a few infrastructure and minor track changes to bring it up to Formula 1 standards. The 2019 version is 4.307-kilometers or 2.676-miles in length. The old version classifies the track with 15 corners while the new one is down to 14. Circuit Zandvoort is next up on the Formula 1 calendar.

As it’s been all season, qualifiers were open beforehand to get the 20 best in each region entered into the event. After closed qualifying the day before, the dual races per region took place on Sunday. APAC ran first, the EMEA group second, and NALA would run later on in the day.

EMEA ZANDVOORT: Sherratt continues to dominate

As usual, the EMEA region belonged to Jordan Sherratt from start to finish. In qualifying, Sherratt put it on the pole position, then went on to dominate in the first of two races.

Not even Rafael Alves could beat Sherratt, even without a pit stop. The resulting penalty to Alves dropped him from fifth to 18th in the running order due to not servicing his Lamborghini.

EMEA ZANDVOORT Race 1 Results 

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Jordan Sherratt	28	45:22.652
2	Andrea Benedetti	28	45:32.915
3	Tommy Razeyre	28	45:38.028
4	Leo Boulay	28	45:40.995
5	Gábor Sárosi	28	45:50.210
6	Marinko Jordanovski	28	45:50.630
7	Luke Addison	28	45:54.819
8	Luca Tavernari	28	46:00.026
9	Fabio Calandrino	28	46:01.362
10	Carlo Barberi	28	46:01.495
11	Beniamin Baumann	28	46:01.731
12	Heikki Hytönen	28	46:05.802
13	Naga Racing Djihed	28	46:11.191
14	Andrea Martelli	28	46:19.207
15	Ferhat Düdükcü	28	46:20.035
16	Marek Dvorak	28	46:29.173
17	Robin Hörig	28	46:45.496
18	Rafael Alves	28	47:55.959
19	Dimcescu Cristian	27	45:36.051
20	Romain Lippens	3	6:12.089

The second and longer race was more of the same for Sherratt. This time, everyone in the event managed to take their proper pit stop. Sherratt only lost the lead during the pit stops, but with no full course yellows, the only way anyone would catch him would be with a mistake. Andrea Benedetti managed to finish second in both races.

EMEA ZANDVOORT Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Jordan Sherratt	38	61:17.247
2	Andrea Benedetti	38	61:36.749
3	Leo Boulay	38	61:38.374
4	Tommy Razeyre	38	61:38.843
5	Fabio Calandrino	38	61:52.701
6	Beniamin Baumann	38	62:01.986
7	Heikki Hytönen	38	62:07.712
8	Gábor Sárosi	38	62:08.774
9	Ferhat Düdükcü	38	62:14.502
10	Marinko Jordanovski	38	62:14.956
11	Naga Racing Djihed	38	62:41.910
12	Carlo Barberi	38	62:47.903
13	Luca Tavernari	38	62:48.044
14	Marek Dvorak	38	62:54.900
15	Romain Lippens	37	61:30.921
16	Dimcescu Cristian	37	61:32.806
17	Robin Hörig	37	61:48.773
18	Rafael Alves	37	62:35.293
19	Andrea Martelli	10	17:04.839
20	Luke Addison	0	DNS

With no Kevin Siclari, Tinko van der Velde or Martin Kadlečík in the field, Sherratt is able to expand upon his points lead at halfway through the season. Sherratt leads by 73 over Siclari, and that means that he’s got more than a full event’s points advantage with five races to go.

NALA ZANDVOORT: Moreira triumphs for double win

It looked like William Hendrickson was going to be the dominant force once again in the NALA region as he claimed the pole position once again over Diego Cargnin, Gabriel Felipe and Fidel Moreira. Moreira had the race pace, however and barely took the first race victory over Felipe by less than 0.4 seconds. Hendrickson wound up finishing in third.

NALA ZANDVOORT Race 1 Results

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Fidel Moreira	28	45:42.573
2	Gabriel Felipe	28	45:42.951
3	William Hendrickson	28	45:43.300
4	Timothy Flammger	28	46:04.196
5	Ryan Woodrow	28	46:04.541
6	Diego Cargnin	28	46:10.755
7	Fernando Deutsch	28	46:47.131
8	Pawan Mantaporn	28	46:49.700
9	Jonthan Clifford	28	46:53.004
10	Junior Augusto de Oliveira Godoi	28	46:54.778
11	Federico Pagliardini	27	46:36.855
12	Bruno Mota	27	47:07.546
13	Daniel de Oliveira	18	30:43.697
14	Lincoln Miguel	5	8:55.259
15	Sebastian Gonzalez	1	1:48.224

The second race of the region kept things close between Moreira and Felipe once again. After the hour was up, Moreira was victorious once again. Hendrickson had some trouble and wound up finishing in fifth.

NALA ZANDVOORT Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Fidel Moreira	37	60:01.065
2	Gabriel Felipe	37	60:02.446
3	Ryan Woodrow	37	60:22.501
4	Timothy Flammger	37	60:28.535
5	William Hendrickson	37	60:31.628
6	Diego Cargnin	37	60:36.455
7	Fernando Deutsch	37	61:10.268
8	Jonthan Clifford	37	61:11.291
9	Daniel de Oliveira	37	61:12.647
10	Pawan Mantaporn	37	61:18.969
11	Sebastian Gonzalez	36	60:10.317
12	Junior Augusto de Oliveira Godoi	36	60:11.917
13	Federico Pagliardini	35	60:22.192
14	Bruno Mota	35	61:02.464
15	Lincoln Miguel	0	DNS

With the double win, Moreira was able to cut into Hendrickson’s lead, now down to 21 points. Felipe also gained on the leader with his pair of runner up finishes.

APAC ZANDVOORT: O’Hara untouchable at Zandvoort

Much like the EMEA region, the APAC region featured a dominating performance from one driver from qualifying through both races. For the APAC region, it was Andrew O’Hara in charge, winning by a landslide over Davlish Singh in the first event. Point leader Egor Ogorodnikov wound up fourth.

APAC ZANDVOORT Race 1 Results 

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Andrew O’Hara	28	45:27.639
2	Davlish Singh	28	45:43.907
3	Terry Rayton	28	45:50.455
4	Egor Ogorodnikov	28	45:51.864
5	Denis Sakharov	28	46:01.033
6	Gary Huang	28	46:05.367
7	Sergey Mironenko	28	46:08.262
8	Hung-Ming Chang	28	46:09.054
9	Sam Bugden	28	46:20.772
10	JJ Wong	28	46:26.894
11	Billie Ebenhaezer Wijaya	28	46:34.942
12	Gugun Wiranto	28	46:36.237
13	Yi-Lin Hsieh	28	46:45.612
14	Ilhamulkarim Shaquille	28	46:49.456
15	Nanthaphat Chaiyakarn	27	45:35.052
16	Adrian Garnham	27	45:56.387

In the longer feature race, Gary Huang made his way up from sixth to second on the grid for a runner up, edging Ogorodnikov by a few seconds for the spot. Once again, however, it was O’Hara who won the event by over 16 seconds.

APAC ZANDVOORT Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Laps	Best Time
1	Andrew O’Hara	38	61:27.655
2	Gary Huang	38	61:43.728
3	Egor Ogorodnikov	38	61:47.711
4	Davlish Singh	38	61:49.642
5	Terry Rayton	38	61:51.060
6	Hung-Ming Chang	38	62:06.417
7	Gugun Wiranto	38	62:25.795
8	JJ Wong	38	62:30.405
9	Billie Ebenhaezer Wijaya	38	62:37.708
10	Sergey Mironenko	38	62:44.369
11	Ilhamulkarim Shaquille	38	62:46.533
12	Yi-Lin Hsieh	38	62:56.481
13	Sam Bugden	38	62:57.984
14	Nanthaphat Chaiyakarn	37	62:26.866
15	Adrian Garnham	37	62:45.781
16	Denis Sakharov	0	DNS

Another region and another double win means O’Hara is closing in on the leader Ogorodnikov. Ogorodnikovwas fourth and third in the respective races, so he still holds on to a five point lead over Huang and 32 point lead over O’Hara entering the Nurburgring.

The next race event will take place at the Nurburgring on 19th September. Open qualifiers will start on 13th September and will end 17th September. Only five events remain in the season now. This race will be the second Endurance event on the calendar, a two hour long race with more points awarded. Check out the full EMEA region broadcast down below.

https://youtu.be/pv4upOGhcA8

Images thanks to The Real Race.