Lamborghini Esports: The Real Race 2, Laguna Seca Results

The second race event of the 2021 edition of The Real Race presented by Lamborghini Esports took place over the 11th July weekend. This time, only the NALA region races were broadcasted live on the Lamborghini Esports YouTube, but the standings were run down at the beginning of the broadcast and the full results are available on The Real Race website.

WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, as it’s known in the real world, is a 2.238-mile, 3.602-kilometre circuit near Monterey, California. Built in 1957, Laguna Seca hosts a myriad of racing series that are mostly U.S.-based. As recently as 2019, Laguna Seca played host to the championship round in the NTT IndyCar Series.

Like Monza, 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, then the EMEA group second. The final regional group of drivers, the North American Latin American region, closed out the second round of events.

NALA LAGUNA SECA: Clean Sweep for Hendrickson

It was a disastrous first outing for William Hendrickson at Monza a few weeks ago. After qualifying third, an early issue forced him to retire before the green flag of the first race. That made his second race a tough outing to gain spots after having to start in last. This week at Laguna Seca, Hendrickson was nearly flawless in the wet weather.

From the pole position, Hendrickson pulled away as the field got clustered behind him. In dominating fashion, Hendrickson was able to score the first race victory by almost 20 seconds over Diego Cargnin. The second race had a cleaner start into the first turn, but they waited this time to wad it up just before the corkscrew. Hendrickson once again prevailed and scored a second victory on the day.

Fidel Moreira didn’t have the same luck as he did in Monza with a dry track, scoring a fifth and fourth place in the wet at Laguna Seca. Moreira does retain the regional lead with a total of 74 points. Hendrickson managed to jump up to second in the standings from way lower, now tied with Gabriel Felipe to round out the podium.

NALA Laguna Seca Race 1 Results

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	William Hendrickson	46:07.322
2	Diego Cargnin	46:26.576
3	Gabriel Felipe	46:27.585
4	Igor de Oliveira Rodrigues	46:29.228
5	Fidel Moreira	46:34.201
6	Vinny Oliveira Leão	46:35.528
7	Timothy Flammger	46:51.961
8	Ryan Woodrow	46:57.449
9	Lincoln Miguel	47:03.495
10	Gustavo Camilo	47:26.192
11	Pawan Mantaporn	47:27.312
12	Renan Mateus Negrini	46:08.701
13	Sebastian Gonzalez	46:25.903
14	Andres Antonio Castro Beltran	46:45.644
15	Joao Borges	24:56.096
16	Alexis Moisan	21:02.812
17	Daniel de Oliveira	10:31.693

NALA Laguna Seca Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	William Hendrickson	61:00.083
2	Vinny Oliveira Leão	61:23.234
3	Diego Cargnin	61:33.725
4	Fidel Moreira	61:42.070
5	Gabriel Felipe	61:42.455
6	Daniel de Oliveira	62:05.658
7	Ryan Woodrow	62:16.910
8	Sebastian Gonzalez	61:03.617
9	Timothy Flammger	61:07.265
10	Gustavo Camilo	61:13.292
11	Alexis Moisan	61:29.895
12	Pawan Mantaporn	62:15.330
13	Andres Antonio Castro Beltran	61:30.652
14	Igor de Oliveira Rodrigues	43:40.087
15	lincoln miguel	20:31.149
16	Renan Mateus Negrini	1231:23.827

APAC LAGUNA SECA: Ogorodnikov sweeps Sprints, takes points lead

Both Sprints fell into the lap of Egor Ogorodnikov. Ogorodnikov finished runner-up both times in the first event at Monza. Starting second alongside Ivan Shermetinskii, Ogorodnikov was able to take the win in the first race, giving him the advantage in the second race at the start.

Ogorodnikov takes over the APAC region points lead from Monza winner Gary Huang, who finished seventh and sixth in the Laguna Seca events. Shermetinskii also moves around Huang in the standings into second.

APAC Laguna Seca Race 1 Results 

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	Egor Ogorodnikov	45:26.679
2	Ivan Shermetinskii	45:27.062
3	Andika Rama Maulana	45:31.203
4	Terry Rayton	45:34.389
5	Andrew Laurenson	45:37.492
6	Brian Izadfar	45:40.550
7	Gary Huang	45:51.295
8	Davlish Singh	45:56.459
9	Denis Sakharov	46:13.549
10	Wooi-Kit Low	46:13.845
11	Daniel Tan	46:16.761
12	Javier Lai	46:22.188
13	Francis Metrillo	46:26.510
14	Billie Ebenhaezer Wijaya	46:39.074
15	Ryan Rodrigues	46:43.395
16	Nigel Chuah	46:47.149
17	Sam Bugden	46:28.040
18	Alexis Clapano	45:41.805
19	Sergey Mironenko	21:39.917

APAC Laguna Seca Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	Egor Ogorodnikov	61:04.953
2	Ivan Shermetinskii	61:25.966
3	Andika Rama Maulana	61:29.056
4	Terry Rayton	61:44.759
5	Daniel Tan	62:04.113
6	Gary Huang	62:16.456
7	Sam Bugden	62:26.109
8	Wooi-Kit Low	61:10.482
9	Davlish Singh	61:12.037
10	Andrew Laurenson	61:13.634
11	Sergey Mironenko	61:15.087
12	Javier Lai	62:07.685
13	Francis Metrillo	62:14.614
14	Denis Sakharov	59:25.373
15	Brian Izadfar	40:56.675
16	Alexis Clapano	31:29.087
17	Ryan Rodrigues	29:52.410
18	Billie Ebenhaezer Wijaya	21:57.755
19	Nigel Chuah	5:08.570

EMEA LAGUNA SECA: Sherratt, Kadlečík split sprints, 1-2 in points

For the first time across all three regions, one driver didn’t sweep both races in the entire event. Martin Kadlečík had just a little more pace coming into Laguna Seca, as he started from the pole position for the first race. Jordan Sherratt, who was able to sweep both races at Monza, managed to get by Kadlečík for the 45 minute race win. In the second race, however, it was Kadlečík scoring the victory over Sherratt by just over two seconds.

Sherratt leads the overal EMEA standings with a total of 93 points while Kadlečík sits second at 77 points. Kevin Siclari finished second and third at the two Laguna Seca races and sits third overall in points with a total of 58 points.

EMEA Laguna Seca Race 1 Results 

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	Jordan Sherratt	46:02.043
2	Kevin Siclari	46:13.636
3	Martin Kadlečík	46:16.151
4	Tinko van der Velde	46:23.759
5	Tommy Razeyre	46:27.236
6	Darren King	46:38.041
7	Michael Tauscher	46:38.960
8	Charlie Crossland	46:42.412
9	Leo Boulay	46:43.590
10	Gianfranco Giglioli	46:58.457
11	Gábor Sárosi	46:58.792
12	Kuhn Mathias	47:05.969
13	Luca Tavernari	47:18.009
14	Marc Rozendaal	46:10.911
15	Luke Addison	46:11.256
16	Niklas Houben	35:30.818
17	Taariq Adam	3:36.209
18	Ahmed Erquizi Hamada	1:01.796

EMEA Laguna Seca Race 2 Results 

Pos	Driver	Best Time
1	Martin Kadlečík	60:43.164
2	Jordan Sherratt	60:44.999
3	Kevin Siclari	60:50.832
4	Darren King	61:05.083
5	Tinko van der Velde	61:09.790
6	Charlie Crossland	61:10.045
7	Leo Boulay	61:16.119
8	Gianfranco Giglioli	61:24.953
9	Tommy Razeyre	61:35.002
10	Luca Tavernari	61:36.492
11	Kuhn Mathias	61:59.672
12	Gábor Sárosi	60:48.790
13	Marc Rozendaal	61:17.008
14	Michael Tauscher	29:30.495
15	Luke Addison	30:35.070
16	Niklas Houben	1:03.727

The first Endurance race will take place 25th July at Suzuka. There will only be one longer race instead of two, but to win will earn 60 points as opposed to 50 for sweeping both Sprints. Check out the action from the Laguna Seca event below!

Images thanks to The Real Race.