The Virtual 12 Hours of Monza a huge success- MRS & DUWO by SimRC take the top steps

In the 991 class, MRS SIM RACING – the iRacing alter-ego of former 24H SERIES class winner MRS GT-Racing – secured a commanding 1-2 finish, as Jukka Honkavuori, Gosia Rdest and Niclas Laubisch in the #989 911-II Cup led home Glenn van Parijs, Ruben Van Buel, Gregory Vranckx and Mathias Detige in the sister #980 Porsche, the latter suffering a scare 10 minutes from home with an off at Variante Ascari. So strong was the German team’s run in fact, both Porsche Cup cars finished inside the overall top 10.
 
“This was my first ever SIM racing experience,” explained Gosia Rdest, “and [Jukka and Niclas] did an amazing job. I was struggling a little at the beginning because my steering wheel stopped working, and the Porsche is a tricky car to drive anyway! But it was a great challenge and I really enjoyed this opportunity. I’m already looking forward to the next race!”
 

A strong recovery drive meanwhile saw NKPP Racing by Bas Koeten Racing (#991, Loek Hartog / Boudewijn Kuster) secure the final class podium. The 24H SERIES stalwart had jumped into the lead when the green flag was flown, but lost time in the pits quickly thereafter. 
 
Come the chequered flag, DUWO by SimRC was also celebrating a sensational ESPORTS 12H MONZA, from which the Luxembourg team secured both the GT4 and TCR class victories. The team’s Porsche Cayman GT4 CS (#476, Marcel Fassbender / Tom Vallenthini / Charlie Collins / Mathias Schoger) had pulled three laps clear of its nearest rival when the chequered flag was unfurled, while the sister Audi RS3 LMS (#176, Jürgen Frank / Felix Luding / Diogo C. Pinto), despite a late-race clash with Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power, also enjoyed a three-lap gap back to the rest of the TCR field.

“It was far from easy!” explained DUWO’s Jürgen Frank. “You had to survive today. Even the start with all classes starting at the same time, it was very difficult. So I have to thank the DUWO Racing team who made it possible for us to race here and for doing such a great job this weekend.”

“Traffic was difficult today,” Jürgen’s teammate Tom Vallenthini said of the team’s TCR result. “But we managed that quite well, and in the end, it was a great success. We had some damage after contact with a GT3 car, but the car was still very stable at the end.”
 
Amazingly, like its fellow 24H SERIES staple, Leipert Motorsport also celebrated a double podium finish at the ESPORTS 12H MONZA.  The team’s Leipert eSports Black Porsche Cayman GT4 CS (#410, Marc Röttgen / Marian Hensel / Steffen Meincke / Ronny Kunack-Constabel) finished 3rd in GT4, while the sister Leipert eSports Yellow Audi RS3 LMS (#111, Sandro Petrozziell / Tobias Pechstädt / Christopher Maier / Niclas Heide) took 2nd in TCR.
 
Heli-ABK (#464, Maxim Van Den Hove / Anthony Beeckman / Renzo Uylenbroeck) finished 2nd in GT4 to complete the category’s podium, while Sorg Rennsport eSports TCR (#133, Moritz Peckel / Marc Danisch) rounded out the top three in TCR.
 
Following a successful ESPORTS 12H MONZA in association with NEO Endurance, CREVENTIC is now focusing its efforts on the fourth annual Hankook 24H PORTIMAO, set to take place at the Autódromo do Algarve in Portugal on 12-13-14 June 2020.

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