Month: January 2021

Porsche cup racing is back in Brands Hatch. Around 100 Porsche GT3 Cup cars gathered to this cozy roller coaster in the woods of Kent, the UK for the 5th round of Mobil 1 Cup powered by e-tepalai.lt. Although Sunday evening for drivers in their rigs wasn’t so cozy. It was a tense fight, where German Jan Nimz took it all.

Hundred identical Porsches with screaming H6 engines racing at Brands Hach at late evening? Sound’s fun, but you could only dream about it. Old neighbor ladies from West Kingsdown wouldn’t be pleased with that. Although in the World Sim Series platform everything is possible. Not only to race with fellows sim racers but to win money or Mobil 1 oil from e-tepalai.lt. Watch the replay here:

It gathered around 100 drivers, they were divided into 4 separate divisions by their speed and 8 round championship now got to the 5th round.

Now quickly to the quali: German Jan Nimz was fastest with a time of 1:26.425. Lithuanian Tauras Tunyla took the second grid slot being just a tenth and a bit from the pole. His fellow from the same country Edvinas Zadeikis took third. Championship leader Jakub Charkot from Poland was the only 9th, but his car was 100 kg heavier as he had to carry some stones as a reward for his winnings. All the fastest drivers get additional weight. And as you see, it changes a lot, because all the sim racers in this cup are very close. 18 drivers fitted in one second here. And 18th, exactly one second behind pole-sitter was last race winner Lithuanian Grantas Kareckas. What a plot!

Division 1 quali results

1  Jan Nimz 01:26.452
2  Tauras Tunyla 01:26.586
3  Edvinas Žadeikis 01:26.665
4  Evaldas Dzialtuvas 01:26.694
5  Simonas Urbonas 01:26.757

The race started very well for Nimz, but quite badly for Tauras Tunyla. He dropped to 6th on the first few corners, on the end of the first lap Simonas Urbonas rushed to 2nd. There was much of action and overtaking happening on the first lap with a few scratches, but no crashes. The only highest quality of pure racing, demonstrated by Mobil 1 Cup powered by E-tepalai.lt participants.

Jan Nimz continued to lead. Most of the action in one hour race with mandatory pit-stop provided “Dream 2 Drive” team. First, Laurynas Razas crashed out just before the second corner and crashed into Tauras Tunyla, which was behind him.

Then, Tauras Tunyla and Tauras Gudinavicius showed a brilliant fight with Justinas Saldukas to the last lap. Although no one of these Lithuanians got a place on the podium.

Nimz took a comfortable win, followed by Edvinas Zadeikis and Simonas Urbonas.
Now drivers can have some rest, as the journey to 6th round of Mobil 1 Cup powered by E-tepalai.lt won’t be very long. Just a few hundred miles through UK’s midlands to the Cheshire, where we will meet at Oulton Park.

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Take a look at the results:
Division 1 TOP5

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	1		Jan Nimz	60:02.913	01:26.168	0	41 (41)	30	1525 (+67)
2	3		Edvinas Žadeikis	+00:13.104	01:26.133	3	41 (41)	31	1540 (+56)
3	5		Simonas Urbonas	+00:19.575	01:26.552	4	41 (41)	22	1611 (+34)
4	8		Justinas Saldukas	+00:28.140	01:26.252	4	41 (41)	20	1309 (+80)
5	2		Tauras Tunyla	+00:28.871	01:26.397	10	41 (41)	18	1535 (+25)

Division 2 TOP5

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	1		Arnas Šleivys	60:58.115	01:27.225	2	41 (41)	15	1169 (+76)
2	8		Victor Tena	+00:09.365	01:27.536	2	41 (41)	14	1231 (+54)
3	6		Karolis Vilčinskas	+00:12.737	01:27.338	2	41 (41)	13	1208 (+51)
4	3		Dani Ramentol	+00:18.928	01:26.836	3	41 (41)	12	1189 (+47)
5	7		Reinis Fridbergs	+00:32.363	01:27.044	7	41 (41)	11	1124 (+54)

Division 3 TOP5

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	3		Janis Dancis	61:02.399	01:26.731	0	41 (41)	15	1056 (+59)
2	2		Andrius Gelzinis	+00:04.291	01:27.652	0	41 (41)	14	1013 (+59)
3	1		Jonas Gelzinis	+00:29.385	01:27.373	1	41 (41)	13	1027 (+48)
4	5		Martin Bodmer	+01:19.121	01:28.930	4	41 (41)	12	1043 (+37)
5	8		Rokas Steponavicius	+01:36.636 (+00:10.000)	01:28.392	7	41 (41)	11	1040 (+30)

Division 4 TOP5

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	1		Edgars Sproģis	61:08.830	01:28.172	1	40 (40)	15	963 (+25)
2	2		Raivo Dripe	+01:01.630	01:29.905	12	40 (40)	14	955 (+18)
3	5		Arminas Tomasevicius	+01:06.273	01:30.297	4	40 (40)	13	913 (+13)
4	3		Sirvydas Simkus	+01:41.378	01:29.254	5	40 (40)	12	951 (+2)
5	6		Sacha Galguera	-1L	01:31.359	0	39 (39)	11	914 (-3)

TOP30 overall standings after round 5

Pos	Driver	BoP	Points	Wins	Podiums	Started	Finished
1	Jakub Charkot	+100kg	99	1	3	4	4
2	Tauras Gudinavicius	+85kg	96	0	3	5	5
3	Edvinas Žadeikis	+70kg	95	0	2	5	5
4	Jan Nimz	+100kg	92	2	2	5	5
5	Grantas Kareckas	+90kg	91	1	2	5	5
6	Simonas Urbonas	+75kg	91	0	2	5	5
7	Evaldas Dzialtuvas		70	0	2	5	5
8	Davis Bite	+20kg	66	0	0	5	5
9	Reinis Fridbergs		61	0	3	5	5
10	Justinas Saldukas	+20kg	61	0	0	5	5
11	Dani Ramentol		56	2	3	4	4
12	Laurynas Razas		56	0	0	5	5
13	Arnas Šleivys		54	1	3	5	5
14	Haroldas Jotautas		53	0	0	5	5
15	Aurimas Mištautas		50	0	1	5	5
16	Andrejs Gubarevs	+15kg	50	0	0	4	4
17	Tauras Tunyla	+35kg	49	0	0	4	4
18	Girts Lapskalns		48	0	2	5	5
19	Norbert Morvai	+50kg	47	2	2	4	3
20	Raivo Dripe		47	0	2	5	5
21	Tomas Čeida		47	0	0	5	5
22	Andrius Gelzinis		44	2	3	4	3
23	Estefano Barrera R		43	1	1	5	5
24	Sacha Galguera		43	0	0	5	4
25	Simas Veršickas		42	0	1	5	5
26	Martin Bodmer		42	0	0	5	5
27	Augustas Sleiva		41	0	1	5	4
28	Tomáš Lošonský		41	0	0	5	5
29	Jonas Gelzinis		38	0	2	5	3
30	Ivan Moyano		37	1	2	5	3

The fourth round of Mobil 1 Cup powered by e-tepalai.lt just finished in the glamour of Monte Carlo streets. However, the race was not so glamorous. It was hard and full of action, where Lithuanian Grantas Kareckas showed his ability to stay out of it and take an easy win as Hamilton does on Formula 1 these days.

Three-time Formula-1 World Champion Nelson Piquet once said, that “Driving an F1 car in Monaco is like riding a bicycle around your living room”. We cannot imagine the F1 calendar without this legendary and glamorous circuit (and that exact year just passed by), it’s history. But we can agree, that the race in a super narrow 3,3 km city circuit isn’t very interesting as it’s impossible to overtake.

You think so as well? Then you should watch the fourth round of Mobil 1 Cup powered by e-tepalai.lt championship where more than a hundred e-racing specialists gathered in Porsche GT3 Cup cars with the identical set-up. As the track is too small for that amount of participants, they were divided into divisions according to their WSS rating. Find the broadcast here:

How close was the competition? Well, in qualification 16 drivers squashed into one second, but one Lithuanian Grantas Kareckas, it seems, was used to driving a bike inside his house as he lapped the circuit almost half a second quicker than the other ones. Take a look at TOP5:

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Rating	Prize
1			Grantas Kareckas	01:33.628	0	10 (9)
2			Tauras Gudinavicius	01:34.101	4	10 (10)
3			Giuseppe Mazzei	01:34.222	2	9 (8)
4			Jakub Charkot	01:34.297	2	8 (8)
5			Andrejs Gubarevs	01:34.304	0	10 (10)

When the lights went out, Grantas made a brilliant start and kept the lead, but behind him, hell broke loose. Italian Giuzeppe Mazzei sprinted to 2nd, championship leader Polish Jakub Charkot took 3rd and Lithuanian Tauras Gudinavičius not only lost podium places but was lucky to stay 4th after he rubbed both of his car mirrors to Gubarevs Porsche from one side and the wall from other in the second corner. E. Dean and E. Zadeikis pushed each other on a hairpin and last round winner J. Nimz got the air.

After some full of action-packed laps it seemed that the race convoy is getting it’s shape, but on lap 8 Zadeikis knocked Urbonas on the hairpin turning his car sideways and blocking the way. The hell broke loose again.
Only Grantas Kareckas raced his way with a brilliant pace perfect mandatory pit stop strategy and no incidents to a finish line to take the unquestionable win.

Lithuanian Evaldas Dzialtuvas took a SUPER LAP prize (1:33.608), gets 5 additional championship points, and 5 liters of MOBIL 1 oil from e-tepalai.lt.

The next round of Mobil 1 CUP is already this Sunday which will take us to England – Brands Hatch GP circuit.

1 Division race results:

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	1		Grantas Kareckas	60:26.215 (+00:05.000)	01:34.197	0	38 (38)	30	1572 (+54)
2	4		Jakub Charkot	+00:09.913	01:34.509	4	38 (38)	26	1833 (+9)
3	2		Tauras Gudinavicius	+00:15.789	01:34.704	9	38 (38)	22	1634 (+27)
4	3		Giuseppe Mazzei	+00:24.848	01:34.623	1	38 (38)	20	1336 (+77)
5	5		Andrejs Gubarevs	+00:25.197	01:34.436	8	38 (38)	18	1301 (+75)

2 Division race results:

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	3		Dani Ramentol	61:23.300	01:35.323	7	38 (38)	15	1121 (+68)
2	1		Karolis Pakrosnis	+00:04.598	01:34.863	10	38 (38)	14	1290 (+32)
3	2		Augustas Sleiva	+00:20.962	01:34.268	7	38 (38)	13	1112 (+54)
4	10		Walter R	+00:27.231	01:35.144	12	38 (38)	12	1278 (+18)
5	8		Estefano Barrera R	+00:45.587	01:35.358	13	38 (38)	11	1138 (+33)

3 Division race results:

Pos	Start	Car	Driver	Gap	Best lap	Inc	Laps	Series Pts	Rating	Prize
1	11		Janis Cudovs	61:19.427	01:35.803	19	37 (37)	15	1076 (+57)
2	5		Reinis Fridbergs	+00:02.483	01:35.422	12	37 (37)	14	1051 (+54)
3	12		Simas Veršickas	+00:07.824	01:36.914	18	37 (37)	13	1058 (+44)
4	13		Martin Bodmer	+00:08.775	01:37.017	12	37 (37)	12	994 (+49)
5	10		Tomáš Lošonský	+00:40.686	01:36.826	16	37 (37)	11	1082 (+24)

4 Division race results

1	1		Ivan Moyano	61:27.417	01:33.862	14	38 (38)	15	934 (+28)
2	3		Rolands Dripe	-1L	01:38.650	10	37 (37)	14	896 (+23)
3	2		Raivo Dripe	-1L	01:37.695	16	37 (37)	13	944 (+11)
4	8		Jon Cole	-2L	01:39.320	7	36 (36)	12	960 (+1)

TOP30 overall season standings after round 4

Pos	Driver	BoP	Points	Wins	Podiums	Started	Finished
1	Jakub Charkot	+100kg	88	1	3	3	3
2	Grantas Kareckas	+90kg	86	1	2	4	4
3	Tauras Gudinavicius	+85kg	80	0	3	4	4
4	Simonas Urbonas	+50kg	69	0	1	4	4
5	Edvinas Žadeikis	+35kg	64	0	1	4	4
6	Jan Nimz	+50kg	62	1	1	4	4
7	Evaldas Dzialtuvas		56	0	2	4	4
8	Davis Bite	+20kg	54	0	0	4	4
9	Reinis Fridbergs		50	0	3	4	4
10	Norbert Morvai	+50kg	47	2	2	4	3
11	Laurynas Razas		47	0	0	4	4
12	Girts Lapskalns		45	0	2	4	4
13	Dani Ramentol		44	2	3	3	3
14	Haroldas Jotautas		43	0	0	4	4
15	Aurimas Mištautas		42	0	1	4	4
16	Justinas Saldukas		41	0	0	4	4
17	Arnas Šleivys		39	0	2	4	4
18	Tomáš Lošonský		39	0	0	4	4
19	Estefano Barrera R		38	1	1	4	4
20	Augustas Sleiva		37	0	1	4	3
21	Tomas Čeida		37	0	0	4	4
22	Andrejs Gubarevs	+15kg	37	0	0	3	3
23	Lukas Hellmann		36	1	2	3	3
24	Simas Veršickas		36	0	1	4	4
25	Julius Adomavičius		35	1	2	4	3
26	Giuseppe Mazzei	+20kg	35	1	1	2	2
27	Eyal Drukman		34	0	1	4	3
28	Maximilian Rörig		33	0	2	3	3
29	Raivo Dripe		33	0	1	4	4
30	Vytautas Sabutis		32	0	0	4	4

At last, after months of qualifying 100 best sim racers from all the Europe started Dream2Drive Semi-finals. And oh boy, what a start it was, showing that first round at Mugello track winner Karolis Jovaisa won’t have any time for a break in next ten weeks competing for the pole position to the finals.
More than 1200 sim racers from all of Europe registered Dream2Drive qualifications in the last two months, and only 100 fastest got a ticket to the semi-finals.

Watch full replay here

Over here all participants are divided into 4 divisions according to Q results and start racing from zero. Unknown track, unknown cars. Semi-finals will show the best and most versatile drivers because they still don’t know where and what they will be driving for the whole 6 rounds. The track and the car will be announced only a week before the race leaving just enough time for practice.

The first surprise – demanding 5 and a bit kilometers long Mugello circuit in Italy carved with 15 high-speed corners. The cars – also Italian. Maserati Gran Turismo MC GT4 with screaming 4.7 liter Ferrari V8’s producing 430 HP to the rear wheels through sequential 6-speed gearbox. Very exciting to drive, but not so easy to handle: more than 1.4 tons lump of metal doesn’t have any driver aids. No traction control, no ABS. And it’s forbidden for participants to configure cars set up to meet their driving style. Everyone drives completely identical cars.
And what is the outcome? In 1st division, 15 sim racers squeezed into 1 second. Kamil Pawlowski from Poland showed the best time @ 1:55.839, followed by previous Dream2Drive championships participants Lithuanian Karolis Jovaisa and Estonian Urmas Riis who were respectively 0.031 and 0.262 sec. slower.
In the second division, Oscar Williams from Great Britain was by far the fastest, setting time of 1:56.161. Not far away was third division pole-sitter Lithuanian Domantas Varnys with a time of 1:56.181. And in the 4th division, the fastest time of 1:57.072 was set by Finnish guy Roope Kurkipaa.

The race showed that the following rounds of Dream2Drive semi-finals will be packed with action. Especially between K. Pawlowski and K. Jovaisa. As the Polish driver got a better start to the long straight to the first corners, Lithuanian in following 2nd and 3rd turns showed him his weak spots at defense and took the lead, which he kept until the finish line. Although the first two podium steps were decided in the first corners, the whole 30 mins of the race were intense: Kamil was chasing Karolis all of 15 laps within the 1 sec. gap, breathing his exhaust fumes and patiently waiting for a mistake, but Lithuanian never did one and won the first round of Dream2Drive semi-finals. Edvinas Zadeikis fought well from 6th to stand on the last step of podium.

In the second division the pole-sitter Oscar Williams hasn’t left any chances for the others to win. The same happened in the third division, where Domantas Varnys took most points of the first round. Those guys will be promoted to higher classes. The 5 fastest drivers from each division go to one ahead in the following race.
And what about 4th division qualify winner Roope? Well, he won’t go anywhere as his race ended not quite how he hoped. Fin finished last and will compete in 4th division with 5 new drivers, whose race went wrong in 3rd (yup, you guessed, 5 slowest drivers after every race goes one division back. Rotation improves racing) as the winner Polish guy Erik Szymendera and other 4 fastest goes up. Well, he would like to forget this race as he came last. All the championship points over there took Polish driver Erik Szymendera.
Next round will be on the air in less than two weeks, on 21st January, Thursday evening. What car participants will be racing and where? Follow, Dream2Drive social, we will announce it a week before the second round.
The podiums of all the divisions:

TOP30 Overall semi-final standings after round 1

Pos	Driver	Points	Wins	Podiums	Started	Finished
1	Karolis Jovaisa	25	1	1	1	1
2	Oscar Williams	20	1	1	1	1
3	Kamil Pawlowski	18	0	1	1	1
4	Domantas Varnys	15	1	1	1	1
5	Edvinas Žadeikis	15	0	1	1	1
6	Matus Markech	13	0	1	1	1
7	Dávid Kalocsai	12	0	0	1	1
8	Eryk Szymendera	10	1	1	1	1
9	Henri Mckenzie Freedman	10	0	1	1	1
10	Haroldas Jotautas	10	0	1	1	1
11	Urmas Riis	10	0	0	1	1
12	Ruben Van Tiem	9	0	1	1	1
13	Marius Kurnickas	8	0	1	1	1
14	Christopher Gruber	8	0	1	1	1
15	Isaac Gillissen	8	0	0	1	1
16	Matija Skalic	7	0	0	1	1
17	Norbert Pósán	7	0	0	1	1
18	Maciej Klus	7	0	0	1	1
19	Daniel Libront	6	0	0	1	1
20	Eimantas Šiaurys	5	0	0	1	1
21	Diogo Teixeira	5	0	0	1	1
22	Damià Bonsfills Miralles	5	0	0	1	1
23	Roope Kurkipää	4	0	0	1	1
24	Aaron Caballero	4	0	0	1	1
25	Simonas Urbonas	4	0	0	1	1
26	Joonas Raunioniemi	4	0	0	1	1
27	Guido Ristori	3	0	0	1	1
28	Martin Faber	3	0	0	1	1
29	Ernestas Andrijauskas	2	0	0	1	1
30	Kacper Smirnow	2	0	0	1	1

More info:
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