After a dominant display from all involved in this year’s opening weekend of the Asetek Simsport Community Trophy, it was time for the ADAC Sim Racing Expo’s flagship competition to get started, the ADAC Digital GT500.
Moving away from its traditional format, the five-round, 10-race championship will feature a range of cars and tracks from the iRacing stable of content. The selection will change between each round, with drivers only getting 24 hours notice on what they will be racing before the event itself.
Round 1 featured one of the latest GT3 offerings from iRacing, the Ford Mustang GT3, around the twisty Virginia International Raceway.
Sven Haase set his stall out early but fought for every inch across the 10-lap race taking the win from Dino Lombardi and Simone Maria Marcenò by a gap of less than three seconds spread across the podium.
It was not plain sailing for the rest of this prodigious grid, however. Rondoletto, Thomsen and Rouyer were brought to the race directors attention during the event picking up additional time penalties which could affect their starting position for Race Two.
ADAC SimRacing Expo GT500 Race 1 result
- #46 Sven Haase – 10 laps
- #13 Dino Lombardi – -0:02.169 Seconds
- #27 Simone Maria Marcenò – -0:02.514 Seconds
- #30 Lorenzo Manfredotti – -0:03.010 Seconds
- #555 Alexander Davidson – -0:04.705 Seconds
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