Siggy wins Nurburgring ADAC GT Masters Esports function race

One other prolonged wait was rewarded yesterday because the ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship returned to screens with the official midway mark of the 2021 season. The fourth spherical of seven would head south-east from Zandvoort to the Nurburgring and one other house circuit for championship chief Lohner within the RaceRoom contested championship.

The 2-time champion and his ruthless consistency had opened up a 24 level hole within the standings to nearest rival Jakub Brzezinski with the likes of Siggy and Jack Keithley all trailing an extra 20 factors behind. If he wasn’t to be stopped quickly, probabilities of catching him would diminish quickly.

GT3 Qualifying

Actually, there was no catching Moritz in qualifying as he led a German 1-2-3 that includes Florian Hasse and Marko Pejic respectively; his final pole place being the primary race of the season.

Tim Jarschel, Alex Dornieden and standout performer Leonard Krippner ensured that six countrymen would sit inside the highest 10 although Jack Keithley and Isaac Worth continued their good kind to take a seat fourth and fifth.

Brzezinski would solely do sufficient for ninth while Siggy couldn’t break the highest 10. Wisniewski served a qualifying ban and would begin from the again of the grid.

GT3 Dash Race

An especially late inexperienced mild gave the sector no probability to correctly put together a Flip 1 assault although it was pleasing to witness the cleanest dash begin of the yr thus far. Keithley pounced on Pejic by means of the Mercedes Enviornment and moved up onto the rostrum in assured style.

Essentially the most vital mover was Dornieden who gained two locations forward of Brzezinski and the slow-starting Thibaut Cazaubon.

Issues settled considerably however for the 2 Williams Esports Bentleys trying keen till an ex-Williams driver discovered himself in a spin. Worth misplaced it upon acceleration out of Flip 1 with 14 minutes left on the clock – falling from fifth to twelfth within the course of, however with time to get well.

Gazing additional up the street, Keithley reignited his assault on Hasse however inadvertently allowed Lohner to scurry away with a three-second lead by the ultimate lap. Catastrophe would strike the rear gunner nonetheless as a gas miscalculation left him sputtering out of the NGK Chicane.

Lohner would take the chequered flag from a shocked Keithley and Pejic while Florian limped house in fifth. Regardless of Worth’s greatest efforts, he couldn’t rescue a prime 10 place leaving Siggy to start out on function race pole place.

 

GT4 Race

For the three races of GT4 motion up till this level, Emre Cihan had been dominating together with Audi as a model. Though he, as soon as once more, took pole place in Germany, it was refreshing to see Lotus and Mercedes trying extra aggressive within the arms of Ville Kreivi and Jan Stange who certified fourth and sixth. Alessandro Ottaviani stored up his streak of top-three begins although Adam Pinczes didn’t, giving method to Julian Kunze.

These positions wouldn’t be disturbed because the Turkish driver took one more victory forward of the Italian and the German.

 

GT3 Characteristic Race

Bence Banki would get the higher launch at the beginning of the function race, although Siggy held agency going into Flip 1. Issues have been a bit too agency for poor Brzezinski nonetheless because the Polish driver, already down a place, was sandwiched between Dornieden and Krippner and launched into the Slovakian. Although each have been in a position to maintain going, the Williams was out of the highest 10 and Dornieden was by means of to second.

Lohner’s begin wasn’t significantly better; getting caught up within the fracas. The German discovered himself down in fifteenth by the tip of the primary lap. Brzezinski recovered positions shortly and shortly discovered himself behind his fast-starting compatriot Wisniewski who had really overcome his qualifying ban to seek out himself in a robust point-scoring placement of eighth. Worth had additionally dealt with the melee properly, navigating it to seventh.

 

Brzezinski’s cost again up the order was properly and really on. His stablemate didn’t give him an excessive amount of bother however his ex-team-mate in Worth was rather less amicable. Nonetheless, with half-hour left Jakub was persevering with to reveal sturdy tempo. Wisniewski, caught within the eight-car Bentley practice, selected this second to pit early in an effort to undercut his rivals.

Keithley can be subsequent to dive in a lap later, whereas Krippner misplaced place to Brzezinski after which an opportunistic Worth who adopted the Pole by means of. With how shut the battle for the lead was although, it could have been comprehensible to see Siggy take management of the state of affairs by following go well with. But, he selected to remain out as each Dornieden and Banki entered the pitlane.

The Austro-Slovenian responded instantly and it was a superb factor that he did in any other case Dornieden would have taken the web lead. Keithley in the meantime had jumped Banki while there was drama for Jarschel, then main the race, because the German spun within the Mercedes Enviornment.

With Worth and Jarschel pitting, the pitstop part was full. The early pitters appeared to have the benefit as all three Williams drivers had gained monitor place and Lohner, specifically, had catapulted as much as seventh. In reality, Worth’s technique would solely work if he might enact the overtakes his recent rubber demanded – the Brit was in eleventh on pit exit.

 

The ultimate 10 minutes have been frantic. Wisniewski and Brzezinski have been struggling because the nimble Lohner, Pejic and Hasse seemed to bop their approach into larger positions. Issues would solely worsen for Nikodem as Worth clattered into him. Pejic himself would run into strife as he misplaced it on the exit of the Enviornment, throwing away a top-10 end; one thing everybody else was waging battle for.

However the commander of the race was properly and really Siggy. The Crew Redline driver had managed the stress fantastically to take the function race win forward of Dornieden and Keithley.

The ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship returns on the finish of this month for Spherical 5 on the Lausitzring on thirty first August.

 

ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship, Spherical 4, GT3 Dash Race Outcomes

1. Moritz Lohner – Dorr Esports 22m01.188s
2. Jack Kiethley – Williams Esports +3.995s
3. Marko Pejic – Mahle Racing Crew +4.120s
4. Tim Jarschel – MRS Esports +4.801s
5. Florian Hasse – Dorr Esports +6.586s
6. Leonard Krippner – T3 Esports +6.830s
7. Alexander Dornieden – MRS Esports +7.272s
8. Bence Banki – Dorr Esports +7.767s
9. Jakub Brzezinski – Williams Esports +8.089s
10. Kevin Siggy – Crew Redline +8.730s

ADAC GT Masters Esports Championship, Spherical 4, GT3 Characteristic Race Outcomes

1. Kevin Siggy – Crew Redline 42m49.228s
2. Alexander Dornieden – MRS Esports +1.903s
3. Jack Kiethley – Williams Esports +3.242s
4. Bence Banki – Dorr Esports +7.932s
5. Moritz Lohner – Dorr Esports +8.992s
6. Jakub Brzezinski – Williams Esports +9.743s
7. Florian Hasse – Dorr Esports +12.683s
8. Tim Jarschel – MRS Esports +14.996s
9. Nikodem Wisniewski – Williams Esports +18.318s
10. David Nagy – M1RA Esports +19.707s