The Porsche success continues on the virtual Nordschleife: SimRC take the 911 Victory

SimRC continued their success story on the virtual Nürburgring Nordschleife (GER) in the sixth race of the Digital Nürburgring Endurance Series powered by VCO. The H&R 3-hour race on Saturday featured two class wins for Porsche. Simon Grossmann and his team-mate Claudius Wied took the chequered flag in the Porsche SimRC 911 Cup car. The Ascher Racing provided early pressure by taking the lead into turn one. Ascher continued the fight for first throughout the race, but Grossmann & Wied drove a faultlesss performance taking the class win fro SimRC.

The thrilling battle for the GT4 top step went all the way to the line. In the end, Matti Sipilä in the Core SimRacing 2 Porsche GT4 was able to hold off the pressure applied by Sorg Rennsport eSports GT4 who claimed second and SimRC drivers Marcel Fassbender & Tom Vallenthini who took third place. Porsche were able to lock out the top four class int GT4, even with the pressure of the newly added BMW GT4 this week. “The start was fine, we had a good launch and take the racing line through turn one. The speed of the car today was good and we could build a gap on the chasing pack.” - Matti Sipilä, Core Sim Racing 2

The “Digital Nürburgring Long Distance Series powered by VCO” has proved to be popular with fans. After the great success of the virtual counterpart to the real races on the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife, the VLN has decided to continue the virtual 2020 season. Initially intended as a replacement for the races in the Green Hell that were cancelled due to the situation surrounding the Corona virus, a no less exciting digital racing series is now emerging, which should provide even more thrilling motorsport and good entertainment in the future.”

“Accumulated more than 200,000 video views in the livestreams and clips on different channels underpin the many positive feedbacks. The Corona virus keeps the world in check. However, right now we are not holding back, but see the prevailing crisis also as an opportunity to strengthen our presence in the virtual segment. Our goal is to establish a digital counterpart to the real Nürburgring Endurance Series in the long term”  -Christian Stephani, Managing Director of VLN VV GmbH & Co. KG.