Victor and Seb make amends for their delayed RLR season debut

The second round of the BMW M2 CS Racing single-make RLR season saw a strong grid of 30 cars tackle the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Having missed the first round, two weeks ago, our team regrouped and prepared this one perfectly, as show in prequal. Victor stopped the clock at 2:35.0, with Seb a few tenths back. The nearest rival was almost a second adrift.

Things changed in a tight 10-minute qualy session, where Victor found the right laptime to claim pole (2:35.7), but Seb couldn’t post a valid lap and paid the price immediately in Turn 1, where he was spun around and made heavy contact with the wall. Victor disappeared into the distance to win by more than seven seconds. Race 2 had the usual hurdle of a Top-15 reverse grid, but Victor had to trouble to convert his P15 start into another podium – third at the flag, less than five seconds behind the winner. Seb moved up quickly, from P28 to score his first points of the season in eighth.

Finally, Race 3 started with a spectacular fight for the lead, but Victor’s challenge ended in the last chicane on Lap 1, when he was spun around and got serious damage. Estimated loss was 1.5s/lap, thus he couldn’t recover towards the points paying positions. Seb took over the spotlight for a very valuable win, his first of the season and second in his short iRacing career.

Laguna Seca is the next destination for the BMW championship, where Victor and Seb will arrive with the same ambition of winning as much as possible. Currently, they sit in 9th and 10th, having missed out on Sebring and scored a little less then hoped at Spa.