Shane van Gisbergen, former champion of the Australian Supercars series, has won the first race for the WRX-E-sports-series on the virtual Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Charles Leclerc, the Ferrari Star in the formula 1, put in his virtual Rallycross debut a series of wild deposits, including a Rollover.
In his first Qualifying race, Leclerc was involved in the first corner in an accident, and began a 10-second time penalty. He drove back on the track that the game recognized a Abbreviate.
In the second Qualifying race of the Monegasque spun his Peugeot 208, as he slammed to Complete his Joker lap in the rear of the two-time DTM champion Timo Scheider.
In Q3, he had a spectacular Rollover, as he took off on a curb. Before the last Qualifying session he was 15. Only the top ten drivers of qualifying the semi-finals.
In the fourth and final Qualifying race was able to escape Leclerc finally, the Chaos and won the race. All the Q4 race, he took the set the seventh fastest time of the Session, a respectable performance. The rinsed it but only on place twelve to the front. So he resigned, together with the separator and the current WRX-Vice-master Andreas Iveco in PC-vitrine.
Van Gisbergen won in each of the four Qualifying rounds. In the semi-final and had to settle for just the former BMW factory driver Tom Blomqvist struck, the son of rally legend Stig Blomqvist. The WRX-E-Sport-Event Re-live on Youtube!
In the final, van Gisbergen fought back then, but in a convincing way. He went early into the lead, while behind them the three vehicles collided with each other – including Blomqvist. Three of the five cars had suddenly no Chance to win.
Only the reigning Rallycross champion Timmy Hansen intercepted van Gisbergen still. The strong Pace of the households in new Zealand founder, he was not able to go, however. This was so fast that he completed the final race over six laps even faster than the winner in the E-sports category.
Hansen was followed by the Second from the Norwegian RX2-pilot Henrik Krogstad, Blomqvist and his younger brother, Kevin Hansen.
among the drivers, for the semi-finals was GT Masters Champion Kelvin van der Linde. For it was the debut also of the virtual WRX. Rokas Baciuska, after Qualifying Fourth, came with his CGC Clio also into the final.
In the E-Sport category, won by Quentin Dall’olmo followed by Lukas Mateja and his brother Killian Dall’olmo, the master of DiRT-rally-2.0-world series.
The next of the four runs for the of Motorsport Games organized by WRX-E-sports-series will take place on 21. May on the virtual Rallycross track in the Norwegian city of Light instead.
This article was written by Heiko Stritzke, Co-author: Josh Sutill
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