The WSS GT3 endurance championship ended this Sunday with 111 participants in the championship. The final stage took place on the Nordschleife, where participants had to cover 1360 turns in eight laps.
In the last stage, we missed the leaders of the championship, the Polish Jakub Charkot, and the German Jan Nimz had secured TOP2 positions even before the start of the last stage. However, five participants fought for third place in the championship until the last stage, there was only a few points difference between Harold Jotautas, Ethan Dean, Domantas Ladauskas, Tauras Gudinavičius, and Simonas Urbonas.
In the qualification, the POLE position was won by Ethan Dean with a lap 08:25.429. Domantas Ladauskas, a representative of the Dream 2 Drive team, made a lap with only one-tenth behind. Tauras Gudinavičius started third.
The start of the race and the first laps guaranteed action until the very end of the race. The qualification trio created a series of actions in each lap divided into tenths of a second. Halfway through the race, there was an incident between the race leaders – E. Dean and D. Ladauskas, just before Antoniusbuche’s turn, had an incident. In this situation, E. Dean, who fell to 10th position after the incident, suffered the most.
Another huge surprise and at the same time big drama is the newcomer to the championship – American John Cannon. Another alien, who had a great pace to fight for the podium, lost all hope by a mistake kissing the PIT entry wall.
The incident between D. Ladauskas and E. Dean allowed T. Gudinavičius to catch the leader and stick to the back of the teammate till the end of the race. Tauras finished crossed the finish line second at a distance of +00:00.259 from the teammate.
The amazing performance and third place went for another Lithuanian Simonas Urbonas, with a mint Mclaren GT3.
E.Dean and his come back performance probably blew the hearts of all the spectators. By the end of the race, the participant was able to recover to the fourth position and fixed the fastest lap time. However, the points of this position were not enough to establish themselves in third place of the season.
Immediately after the finish, we went to E.Dean to get a comment about the incident between him and D. Ladauskas.
– Ethan, please tell us, what is your reaction to this racing incident? Will you file a driver protest?
” – It’s an extremely unfortunate way to end what was easily my most promising weekend in WSS GT3 thus far. I had the pace to go for the win, a win which would have sealed me into third overall, but it is what it is. These things happen. It’s hard not to feel robbed, but Domantas accepted the blame so I chose to rescind any protest; since Gudinavicius and Urbonas finished ahead of me it would be little more than petty revenge anyway. I’m not about that.”
It’s amazing for us as a platform to see drivers’ attitudes toward other drivers, and this situation shows that WSS users are racers with soul. Thank you all for this amazing championship finish and in the next news, we will take an interview with the GT3 Championship winners. Stay tuned!
Final round DIV 1 results:
| Pos | Driver | Gap | Best lap | Inc | Laps | Series Pts | Rating | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Domantas Ladauskas | 68:22.078 | 08:25.636 | 1 | 8 (8) | 25 | 1473 (+45) | |||
| 2 | Tauras Gudinavicius | +00:00.259 | 08:24.328 | 3 | 8 (8) | 18 | 1520 (+30) | |||
| 3 | Simonas Urbonas | +00:18.755 | 08:26.603 | 4 | 8 (8) | 15 | 1559 (+16) | |||
| 4 | Ethan Dean | +00:32.140 | 08:23.913 | 3 | 8 (8) | 12 | 1569 (+6) | |||
| 5 | Grantas Kareckas | +00:48.846 | 08:31.347 | 1 | 8 (8) | 10 | 1441 (+19) | |||
| 6 | Ozgur Benzes | +01:06.640 | 08:32.216 | 0 | 8 (8) | 8 | 1245 (+50) | |||
| 7 | Jurij Lapo | +01:08.761 | 08:33.019 | 3 | 8 (8) | 6 | 1311 (+28) | |||
| 8 | Laurynas Razas | +01:24.873 | 08:28.015 | 3 | 8 (8) | 4 | 1398 (+3) | |||
| 9 | Rand Renwar | +01:56.563 | 08:36.617 | 3 | 8 (8) | 2 | 1095 (+56) | |||
| 10 | Karolis Vilčinskas | +02:47.364 | 08:35.573 | 10 | 8 (8) | 1 | 1127 (+42) | |||
| 11 | Aivaras Vaitiekūnas | +03:07.709 | 08:46.651 | 1 | 8 (8) | 0 | 1213 (+16) | |||
| 12 | Mauro Teja | +04:34.611 | 08:49.540 | 9 | 8 (8) | 0 | 1176 (+16) | |||
| 13 | Svajūnas Budra | +04:41.895 | 08:53.218 | 7 | 8 (8) | 0 | 1015 (+39) | |||
| 14 | Justas Pirinauskas | DNF | 08:30.345 | 0 | 7 (7) | 0 | 1414 (-48) | |||
| 15 | Vilmantas Vanagas | DNF | 08:41.364 | 5 | 7 (7) | 0 | 1159 (-4) | |||
| 16 | Vincas Zaleckis | DNF | 08:59.844 | 9 | 7 (7) | 0 | 1049 (+9) | |||
| 17 | Haroldas Jotautas | DNF | 08:31.900 | 4 | 6 (6) | 0 | 1418 (-73) | |||
| 18 | Justinas Saldukas | DNF | 08:30.805 | 9 | 5 (5) | 0 | 1285 (-55) | |||
| 19 | Laurynas Zopelis | DNF | 08:42.658 | 13 | 5 (5) | 0 | 1027 (-11) | |||
| 20 | John Cannon | DNF | 08:30.251 | 1 | 3 (3) | 0 | 1010 (-16) | |||
| 21 | Mindaugas Survila | DNF | 08:54.389 | 11 | 3 (3) | 0 | 1265 (-75) | |||
| 22 | Arnas Šleivys | DNF | __:__:___ | 1 | 0 (0) | 0 | 1106 (-50) | |||
| 23 | Filip Vaysman | DNF | __:__:___ | 8 | 0 (0) | 0 | 1014 (-41) |
Overall season TOP30
| Pos | Driver | Points | Wins | Podiums | Started | Finished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jakub Charkot | 100 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 2 | Jan Nimz | 86 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| 3 | Domantas Ladauskas | 67 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 |
| 4 | Tauras Gudinavicius | 66 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| 5 | Haroldas Jotautas | 56 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
| 6 | Simonas Urbonas | 54 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 |
| 7 | Ethan Dean | 49 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| 8 | Martynasm Morkism | 45 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 |
| 9 | Simon Kovacic | 40 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| 10 | Ozgur Benzes | 40 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 11 | Tadas Dovidaitis | 38 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| 12 | Grantas Kareckas | 38 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| 13 | Karolis Vilčinskas | 29 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 |
| 14 | Svajūnas Budra | 29 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| 15 | Aurimas Stecenka | 27 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| 16 | Ovidijus Latoza | 26 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 |
| 17 | Victor Brill | 25 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 18 | Filip Vaysman | 23 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 19 | Domantas Varnys | 22 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 20 | Johan Seminario | 20 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| 21 | Joaquin Jimenez | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 22 | Ignacio Lanero | 20 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| 23 | Laurynas Razas | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 24 | Rand Renwar | 16 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 5 |
| 25 | Mauro Teja | 13 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 |
| 26 | Augustas Sleiva | 13 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| 27 | Anthony Tittershill | 11 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 |
| 28 | Vilmantas Vanagas | 10 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| 29 | Andrius Švitra | 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 30 | Sebastian Bjorkholm | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |