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Remo Grossenbacher — last to first, and the title

From eighth on the reversed grid he was fourth after lap 1 and second after lap 2. He passed Schrader for the lead on lap 10 and won by 7.995 s, with the fastest lap of the race (1:46.749).

Remo Grossenbacher — merit 0.865

CLS counts 8 places gained and 8 overtakes across the round. Becker, who had won the award at the Algarve, was not eligible for it twice in a row.

The start crash that settled the title

Half a minute after the green flag the telemetry logs contact between Becker and Brechmann, with both spinning, and Grossenbacher and Oberländer collecting contact in the same moment. Becker’s car needed a forced repair. He went to the pits at the end of lap 1 and did not come back.

Becker: one lap, then 11 minutes in the pits

He stood in the pit lane for 662 s before iRacing recorded him as disconnected. CLS lists him as DSQ for the race, with no points. Oberländer spun while fighting Brechmann, made a 49-second stop and finished seventh, a lap down.

Jan Tobias Schrader — eight laps in front

He took the lead from pole-sitter Berger on lap 2 and kept Grossenbacher behind him until lap 10, never more than a second clear.

Three cars inside 1.5 seconds

Brechmann recovered from sixth after the start crash and closed in on Schrader over the final laps. On the last lap there was contact and he backed off. He finished 0.387 s behind, with Utz another 1.1 s back in fourth.

Schrader (teal) leads for most of the race with Grossenbacher within a second. After lap 10 the yellow line takes over and the gap grows to eight seconds. Oberländer’s line drops away with his spin and 49-second stop.

Grossenbacher and Brechmann had the best medians, both around 1:47.5. Brechmann’s spread is the tightest in the field. Kraft and Berger ran around two seconds a lap slower.

Only two stops counted: Becker’s 662 s after the lap-1 crash, from which he did not return, and Oberländer’s 49 s on lap 4. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

The red crosses at the left are the start crash; Becker’s purple diamond is the forced repair. This shows telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The yellow line climbs from eighth to second in two laps, then sits behind teal until lap 10. Brechmann (red) drops to sixth at the start and is back to third by lap 6.

Green bars are places gained on track and red bars are places lost. Grossenbacher was +7. Schrader and Brechmann were +3 each; Berger and Kraft, from the front row, were −4 each.

This maps where each logged incident happened. The cluster of crosses and circles is the lap-1 crash; the circle at the top of the lap is Oberländer’s spin.

These are lap-by-lap times for the top six. Grossenbacher’s laps drop into the 1:46s once he is in clean air. Berger’s spikes on laps 6 and 13 are his two spins.

This counts laps spent within 1.5 s of each other. Schrader and Brechmann spent 5 laps together and Grossenbacher and Brechmann 4: the fight for the lead and for second ran as one long train.

Remo Grossenbacher — led all 15 laps

He started second, took the lead from Becker into Turn 1 and never gave it back. He won by 7.471 s, most of it from Becker’s off on lap 11.

Remo Grossenbacher — 1:45.457

Just 0.015 s quicker than Becker’s best (1:45.472). The two ran within a tenth of each other almost every lap. Nobody else went under 1:46.6.

Nine laps half a second apart

From lap 2 to lap 10 Becker crossed the line about 0.5 s behind every time. The booth said he was on the weaker line wherever he tried: „Fast vorbei reicht halt nicht.“

Becker’s off

Becker went off and lost around four seconds, and he lost more on the next lap. The booth suspected damage. He did not pit and finished second, but he had to beat Grossenbacher in Race 2 now.

Berger: a lap-1 stop and a forced repair

After the opening-lap contact Berger stopped for 20 s at the end of lap 1. A forced repair followed: a stop of seven and a half minutes. He rejoined and was classified eighth with 11 laps.

Jürgen Michael Kraft — zero points

He had no incident points in 15 laps. Brechmann, third on track, had only one. Becker collected 17.

Berger’s forced-repair stop stretches the scale; the front-runners’ gaps sit in the top band. Becker stays on Grossenbacher’s line until his lap-11 off.

Grossenbacher and Becker are a second and a half clear of the rest in median pace. Brechmann, Oberländer, Utz and Schrader follow, all around 1:47 to 1:48.

Only Berger stopped: 20 s at the end of lap 1, then a 450-second forced repair from lap 5. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

The marks in the first minute are the lap-1 contact, with collisions for Utz and Berger and spins for Schrader and Oberländer. Becker’s long row of triangles is track limits. The „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points.

The top four hardly moved after lap 1. Below them Oberländer (purple) recovers from last after the start to fifth, passing Utz on lap 12.

Schrader was +2. Oberländer made three passes but was passed four times, mostly in the opening-lap shuffle.

This maps where each logged incident happened. Almost all are track-limit offs, bunched at the same few corners.

These are lap-by-lap times for the top six. The yellow and teal lines overlap for ten laps; Becker’s spike on lap 12 is the lap after his off.

This counts laps spent within 1.5 s of each other. The closest pairing was Oberländer and Utz, with four laps. The lead duel does not register here, although the line crossings put Becker about half a second behind for nine laps.

Remo Grossenbacher — seventh to first in one lap

From reverse-grid seventh he was leading when the field first crossed the line, then led all 15 laps with Becker in his mirrors. He won by 0.593 s, an hour after losing the Heat on the last lap.

Maurice Becker — merit 0.784

The Heat win, then last to second here: eighth on the grid and second by the end of lap 1. In the closing laps he was a tenth or two behind the leader.

Maurice Becker — 1:42.195

Set on lap 7, a tenth quicker than the winner's best (1:42.297). Over the race the two were separated by hundredths a lap.

Two contacts and a launch

Berger took a kerb too hard and was launched. The telemetry then logs contact between Berger and Cursio, and seconds later between Reiniger, Becker and Oberländer, with Reiniger spinning. Neither was clearly on camera, so neither is assigned to a driver here.

Kraft: 3½ minutes in the pits

The pole-sitter was caught up in a lap-1 contact, went backwards and stood in the pits for 204 s. He rejoined and finished, two laps down. Berger was black-flagged on lap 12 as his incident count reached 16, and finished a lap down on 18.

Reiniger vs Schrader, again and again

The rookie and Schrader swapped fifth back and forth all race. Reiniger settled it under braking on the last lap and finished just 1.05 s behind Cursio in fourth.

Becker (teal) sits on the zero line almost the whole way, 2.3 s back after lap 1 and a tenth or two by the end. Kraft's line falls away on lap 1, when he stood in the pits for 204 s; Berger's steepens after his lap-12 black flag.

The front two ran in a band of their own, around two seconds a lap quicker than the rest. Oberländer and Reiniger come next, with near-identical medians around 1:44.5.

There were only two visits in the whole race: Kraft's 204 s on lap 1 and Berger's black-flag stop on lap 12. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

This shows telemetry events by driver and race time; Berger's black flag is the white square. The classification's „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The whole reversed grid unwound in one lap: Grossenbacher from seventh to first and Becker from eighth to second. Further back, Oberländer climbs from fifth to third, and the purple and green lines cross again and again.

Green bars are places gained on track and red bars are places lost. The front two were +6 each. Reiniger made five passes but was passed six times, the busiest race in the field.

This maps where each logged incident happened. The red cross marks the lap-1 contacts.

These are lap-by-lap times for the top six. The two leaders' lines are nearly on top of each other. Reiniger's spike on lap 12 (the eleventh racing lap) is his spin.

This counts laps spent within 1.5 s of each other: the duel at the front, and the four-way midfield fight between Oberländer, Cursio, Reiniger and Schrader.

Maurice Becker — decided on the last lap

Pole by 0.455 s, but he spent laps 2 to 14 behind Grossenbacher. He led only after their contact on the final lap and won by 1.948 s.

Maurice Becker — 1:41.988

The only lap of the night under 1:42, set on lap 5 while still chasing. It was also quicker than his own pole lap (1:42.050).

Final lap, Becker and Grossenbacher

The two touched and Grossenbacher spun. The telemetry logs a loss of control for both at the same moment, and each lost around seven seconds on the lap. The commentary called it unintentional, and Becker took the blame afterwards. CLS lists no penalty.

14 laps within 1.5 seconds

Becker sat in Grossenbacher's mirrors for every racing lap, usually one or two tenths back and never more than six. Their lap times were near-identical in the low 1:42s.

Moritz Reiniger — seventh to fifth

In his first CAS race the newcomer spun on his own on lap 2 and fell to seventh. He worked back to fifth by lap 8, the last place taken from Cursio.

Jürgen Michael Kraft — one point

He had one incident point in 15 laps, the lowest in the field. Everyone else had six or more.

The front two were inseparable for 14 laps. Oberländer's gap grew by about a second a lap, and the jump back on the final lap is the time both leaders lost in the contact.

Becker and Grossenbacher are a second clear of the field in median pace. Reiniger's long tail is the lap-2 spin.

This shows telemetry events by driver and race time. The two orange dots near the end are the last-lap loss of control for both leaders. The „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points.

Yellow and teal swap places twice: after the opening lap and on the final lap. The purple line is Reiniger's drop to seventh and climb back to fifth.

This was a quiet race for passing. Schrader's and Berger's net +1 is the biggest gain, and Reiniger's two passes did not quite make up for the spin.

This maps where each logged incident happened. The red cross is Reiniger's early contact; the two orange dots are spins.

The yellow and teal lines run together for 14 laps, then both shoot up together on the final lap. That shared spike is the contact.

One dark cell says it all: Becker and Grossenbacher spent 14 laps within 1.5 s of each other. The next-closest pair, Schrader and Cursio, managed four.

Benedikt Barth — a perfect race

Sixth on the reversed grid, in front by lap 8, and never headed again — 2.884 s clear at the flag with zero incident points. The only driver all evening to go through a race without a mark against his name.

Maurice Becker — merit 0.954

Last on the road after his lap-3 mistake, second by lap 13. Ten overtakes, six places gained, and the fastest lap of the entire evening on the way.

Maurice Becker — 1:36.734

The quickest lap of the weekend, set on lap 10 in the middle of the recovery drive — and a full second under his own pole time from the dry-ish qualifying hour.

Becker into Schrader, lap 3

Becker put two wheels on the wet grass chasing the leaders, could not slow the car, and hit Schrader — who was leading at the time. The booth called it a racing accident and Schrader agreed on air afterwards. Becker took three incident points, Schrader four and tyre damage.

Schrader loses a minute and a half

A 26.6 s repair at the end of lap 6, then a spin into the Melbourne gravel late on while trying to let Becker by. He finished, 96.3 s down — and refused to park it.

Don Utz — fourth, nothing broken

Third on the reversed grid, fourth at the flag, zero incident points and a 1:37.593 best in the wet. On merit the drive of the night after the winner.

Barth (yellow) flat on zero from lap 8 to the flag. Schrader’s line falling away from lap 6 is the damage repair; the near-vertical drop at lap 15 is the spin into the gravel.

Becker owns both the quickest lap of the weekend and the widest spread — the price of coming from last. Utz and Barth have the tightest distributions.

One real stop in the whole race: Schrader’s 26.6 s repair at the end of lap 6 after the contact. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead — Kremer’s eleven are the highest of the night.

The inversion unwinds in two stages: Schlosser from reverse-grid fifth to the lead by lap 3, then Barth from sixth to the front by lap 8. Becker’s line drops to last on lap 3 and climbs back to second by lap 13.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Becker’s ten passes are the most of the round; Berger’s and Schrader’s red bars are the front row of a reversed grid meeting the pace order.

Where each logged incident happened. The cluster through the Craner Curves is the wet descent; the Melbourne loop collected the rest.

Lap-by-lap times for all eight cars. Schrader’s three spikes are the repair lap and the two damaged laps that followed.

Laps spent within 1.5 s. The brightest cells are Brechmann against Utz and Schlosser against Becker — the two fights that ran all race.

Maurice Becker — 15 of 16 laps led

Pole by 0.465 s, lights to flag apart from a single lap, 11.651 s in hand, and one incident point on a soaking circuit. A control drive in conditions that caught almost everyone else.

Benjamin Schlosser — last to fourth

Eight incident points in qualifying left him with no lap time at all and last on the grid. He was fourth by lap 4 with four overtakes and the second-quickest lap of the race. Not one of his passes made it onto the broadcast.

Maurice Becker — 1:36.889

Set on lap 10, once the racing line had started to dry. Schlosser’s 1:37.205 was the closest anyone came to it.

Barth leads lap 7 — and only lap 7

Becker braked too late on lap 6 and ran wide, handing Benedikt Barth the lead. Becker took it straight back on lap 8 down the inside — a clean pass, and the commentary was careful to say Barth had made no mistake.

Barth spins it away on lap 13

He had run second since lap 8 and was holding Kremer comfortably. One lost rear on lap 13 cost him the place and 12 seconds — he was third at the flag, 14.188 s down.

Nine to ten seconds a lap to the water

Rain before the session, standing water on several kerbs, 19 °C air over a 22.6 °C track. The commentator had run 1:31s on a near-dry surface that morning and put true dry pace in the 1:28s.

Becker at zero for every lap except 7, where Barth’s line touches the axis. The fan opening from lap 13 is Barth’s spin handing second to Kremer.

Four cars inside a tenth of each other on their best lap — Becker, Schlosser, Barth, Kremer — and then a clear step to the rest of the field.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. Becker’s single official incident point on a soaking track is the standout of the race.

Schlosser’s climb from eighth to fourth is done by lap 4 — none of it made the broadcast. Becker’s single dip at lap 7 is the only lap he did not lead.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Schlosser’s four passes from the back of the grid are the best return of the race.

Where each logged incident happened. The wet Craner Curves and the Melbourne hairpin take almost all of them; the single collision marker is on the run to Goddards.

Lap-by-lap times for all eight cars. Every driver improves through the race as the line dries — the fastest laps all come in the second half.

Laps spent within 1.5 s. Barth against Kremer for second is the brightest cell — they ran nose to tail until the lap-13 spin settled it.

Remo Grossenbacher — and the championship lead

From sixth on the reversed grid he was second by the time Benjamin Schlosser spun away the lead, then never looked back — nine seconds clear at the flag, and top of the standings for the first time this season.

Mario A Berger — merit 0.965

Eight places gained across the round, nine recovered, eleven overtakes and only five incident points — the cleanest recovery drive of the evening.

Also outstanding: Grossenbacher (+8) · Don Utz (+6, 12 overtakes) · Hollerung (+5)

Hollerung waves his team-mate through

René Hollerung saw that his Big Point Racing team-mate was quicker and let him by rather than hold him up. Grossenbacher was gone within three laps — and Hollerung then defended second from Becker almost to the end.

Maurice Becker — 1:24.386

The quickest lap of the race on his way from eighth to second. His pass on Brechmann into the chicane was the cleanest move of the night.

Baar loses it before lap 1 is out

Manfred Baar was on reverse-grid pole and jumped the start. The black flag came within seconds of the green; the drive-through dropped him to the back, and he finished twelfth. Dominique Meyers was black-flagged in the same moment.

Two cars gone, one wall each

Klaus Oberländer destroyed his Porsche at the corner after the chicane and was out on lap 12. Christian Schlosser took a second long repair and retired after 13. Antonio Cursio survived a lap-1 head-on into the wall with an 85-second repair.

Benjamin Schlosser’s early spell in front, then Grossenbacher pulling clear. The vertical scale is set by the two cars that lost minutes, so the front group is compressed into the top band.

Becker has both the quickest single lap and the widest spread — the cost of coming through the field. Grossenbacher’s distribution is the tightest of the front-runners.

Only damage and penalties: Baar’s and Meyers’ lap-1 black flags, Cursio’s 85-second repair, and Oberländer’s two visits. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The inversion unwinds over the first third rather than in one lap — Oschersleben simply does not give the quick cars a way past.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Berger and Utz lead the recovery drives; Baar’s red bar is the jumped start.

Where each logged incident happened. The cluster on the exit of the chicane is the corner that ended Oberländer’s race and caught several others.

Lap-by-lap times for all fifteen cars, with the black-flag and repair laps standing out as single spikes.

Laps spent within 1.5 s, top six only — the Hollerung–Becker fight for second is the brightest cell.

Maurice Becker — pole, all 18 laps led

Six tenths clear in qualifying, the inside line into turn 1, and then a controlled drive to a 7.428 s win with the fastest lap. After throwing away both Oran Park races, this was the answer.

Willi Brand — second on one incident point

The only driver to stay within striking distance, and he did it almost perfectly clean. One incident point across 18 laps on a circuit that punished nearly everyone else.

Schrader × Cursio — 0.05 s apart

Most of the race nose to tail over eighth. Schrader was clearly quicker and was alongside at the chicane again and again; Cursio shut the door every time. Five hundredths separated them at the flag.

Schrader afterwards: „Rankommen und vorbeifahren sind zwei verschiedene Paar Schuhe.“

Manfred Baar — last to eighth

Four places lost on the opening lap and briefly at the back of the field, then a steady climb back to eighth with passes on Don Utz and Antonio Cursio.

Maurice Becker — 1:24.311

The quickest lap of the race, set while leading. Only Brand (1:24.688) got within four tenths of it.

Three races effectively ended

Christian Schlosser spun after contact and lost eight minutes in the pits. Danny Platzer took a 24.7 s repair and finished a lap down on 13 incident points. Benjamin Schlosser put it in the wall late but was still classified seventh.

Becker’s line is the axis and it never wavers. The tight bundle underneath is the four-car midfield train that ran together for most of the race.

Becker and Brand are a step clear of the field on median pace; the long tails belong to the drivers who had an off or a repair.

Two stops, both damage: Platzer’s 24.7 s on lap 7 and Christian Schlosser’s eight-minute repair. No strategic stops in an 18-lap sprint.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

Becker’s flat line at the top, Baar’s drop to last and long climb back to eighth, and a midfield that barely reorders at all.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. The bars are small in both directions — a fair summary of how hard passing was here.

Where each logged incident happened on the 3.7 km, 14-corner Grand Prix layout.

Lap-by-lap times for all fifteen cars. The two long spikes are the repair stops.

Laps spent within 1.5 s, top six only — so the Schrader–Cursio duel over eighth, the closest of the race, does not appear here.

Alex Gründel — by 0.225 s

Reversed to fourth, Gründel led from lap 2 and then spent the next twenty-two laps with Grossenbacher inside a second and a half. He never made a mistake big enough to lose it, and took the flag by 0.225 s — the closest finish of the PCCD season so far.

Klaus Oberländer — merit 0.877

CAS League Scoring gave the round’s award to Klaus Oberländer: seven places gained across the two sprints, seven recovered, ten overtakes and three incident points.

Also outstanding: Meyers (+6, 12 overtakes) · Gründel (+2, 8 recovered) · Grossenbacher (+6)

Grossenbacher P8 → P2 in one lap

Dropped to eighth by the inversion, the Heat winner was second by the end of lap 2. He had one chance at the lead early and refused it rather than take Gründel out, then chased for the rest of the race without ever quite getting the move done.

Remo Grossenbacher — 1:03.943

Set on the final lap, still attacking. It was also the fastest lap either of the front two managed all evening.

Two cars scored nothing

Andre Brechmann pitted on the opening lap and took no further part — zero laps completed. Maurice Becker ran third before destroying the car at the final chicane, took a 107 s repair on lap 10 and parked it. CLS records both as DSQ for the Feature.

Night race, 20.4 °C, dry

The sim clock put the Feature at 18:15 in early-May Australia, so it ran in what the booth called stockdunkel — pitch black between cars. Dry throughout, light wind, air temperature falling to 20.4 °C.

Two lines on top of each other for the whole race — Gründel and Grossenbacher never separated by more than a second and a half.

The front two are almost indistinguishable: 1:04.787 and 1:04.796 average lap over the full distance.

Only two race stops: Becker’s 107 s repair on lap 10 and Cursio’s black-flag pass-through on lap 17. Brechmann’s lap-1 entry sits before the timed race window; cool-down-lap entries are excluded.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The inversion unwinds inside two laps: Grossenbacher P8→P2, Becker P9→P4, and reverse-pole-sitter Kraft back to eighth.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Grossenbacher’s +6 is the biggest bar; Becker made eight passes and lost eight in the same race.

Where each logged incident happened. The cluster at the start/finish end is the Turn 1–2 combination and the final chicane — the two corners that shaped the round.

Lap-by-lap times for all ten cars, with Becker’s line stopping at lap 10.

Laps spent within 1.5 s. Gründel–Grossenbacher: 22 of 24. Meyers–Barth managed 17.

Remo Grossenbacher — pole, all 24 laps led

He took pole on the very last lap of qualifying, led every lap of the race and won by 15.474 s — though for two thirds of it Maurice Becker was never more than about a second behind.

Klaus Oberländer P7 → P2

A place at the start, a place when Cursio spun, and the rest picked up as the fast men made mistakes. Five positions gained and one incident point — the cleanest run in the field.

Maurice Becker — 1:03.617

Set on lap 12 while shadowing the leader. Half an hour later it was the only thing he had to show for the round: two crashes, a 34.7 s repair and retirement on 16 laps.

Gründel: P9 back to P5

An unforced lap-2 spin — the car lifted over a kerb, no contact — dropped the championship leader to ninth. He then spent several laps stuck behind Antonio Cursio, who covered the inside perfectly, before finally going round the outside.

Oberländer and Barth — 1 incident point each

On a circuit that punished everyone else, second and fourth place came home on a single incident point apiece. The field average was 4.3.

Two retirements, both self-inflicted

Andre Brechmann lost the car before the ten-minute mark, made three pit visits and was ended by a 340 s stop on lap 14. Becker crashed twice in quick succession. Neither involved another car.

Becker’s line runs flat on the leader for fourteen laps, then falls off the chart. Oberländer’s climb from seventh is the steady blue line underneath.

Grossenbacher has the tightest distribution of anyone who finished; the long tails belong to the drivers who had an off.

All four stops are damage: Brechmann three times (the 340 s one ended his race) and Becker’s 34.7 s repair. No strategic stops in a 25-minute sprint.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

Grossenbacher’s flat line at the top, Gründel’s lap-2 drop to ninth and slow climb back, and Oberländer’s steady rise to second.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Oberländer’s +5 leads; Becker’s −7 is the cost of two crashes.

Where each logged incident happened on the 2.6 km Grand Prix layout, bridge crossover included.

Lap-by-lap times for all ten cars. Becker’s two spikes are the two crashes.

Laps within 1.5 s, top six only — so the Grossenbacher–Becker duel that defined the first two thirds does not appear here, because Becker was classified ninth.

Maurice Becker — P8 to the double

Reversed to eighth, Becker was patient at the start and then simply quicker than everyone through the final chicane. He cleared Jan Tobias Schrader for the lead, pulled away and completed the perfect debut evening: two wins from two, by +4.55 s.

René Hollerung P18 → P7

Untouched by the top-8 inversion, Hollerung started 18th after his wrecked Heat and carved through to seventh — eleven places, eleven overtakes, the biggest gain of the night.

Gründel × Grossenbacher — 0.48 s short

Three tenths a lap quicker in the closing stages, Gründel got right onto Grossenbacher’s gearbox but never found the move through the chicane. With the championship in mind he settled for third — the smart call.

Willi Brand — 1:57.054

Brand took the Feature’s quickest lap on his way to fourth, quicker than either of the drivers who beat him to the podium.

Schrader: reverse pole to P6, no mistakes

On pole from the inversion, Schrader lost the lead early but never binned it. His policy, explained afterwards: signal with a sharp weave and let the quicker cars through rather than lose time fighting them.

Two disconnections, one black-flag start

Klaus Oberländer dropped out after a single lap and Clemens Müller-Rechner after five, both disconnected. Dominique Meyers drew a black-flag pass-through seconds after the green and served it on lap 1, yet still recovered to eighth.

Becker’s climb from P8 and his escape once in front; behind, Gründel’s line closes on Grossenbacher’s but never crosses it.

Tighter than the Heat at the front — four drivers inside a tenth-and-a-half of median pace.

Meyers’ lap-1 stop is the black-flag pass-through; Cursio’s 2:39 is a repair. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The reverse grid unwinds: Becker P8→P1, Hollerung P18→P7, while Brechmann’s lap-1 gravel trip costs him six places.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Hollerung’s +11 is the biggest bar of the round.

Where each logged incident happened on the 5.1 km GP loop.

Lap-by-lap times for all 19 cars, including the two disconnections dropping off the chart.

Laps spent within 1.5 s — the Gründel–Grossenbacher fight for second is the brightest cell.

Maurice Becker — pole, win, fastest lap

On his very first PCCD start, Becker took pole by 0.003 s, lost the lead to Alex Gründel at Turn 1, spent ten laps shadowing him and finally struck in the Veedol chicane — then set the fastest lap (1:56.730) and won by +6.55 s.

Becker vs Gründel — ten laps nose-to-tail

The two 4000+ iRating men ran in a 0.18–0.52 s window for most of the race, the only close-battle pairing on the leaderboard. Hard, but as the commentary put it, „sehr, sehr fair“ — no contact all race.

Grossenbacher P6 → P3

Remo Grossenbacher climbed three places to the final podium step, ahead of Dominique Meyers and Willi Brand — who were split by just 0.003 s at the flag after 13 laps.

Benjamin Schlosser — recovery from two spins

Qualified fourth, Schlosser threw it away twice without outside help („ohne Fremdverschulden“), fell to P17 and clawed back to P12 with seven on-track overtakes — the highest Driver-of-the-Day score of the Heat.

Utz, Coldron and Hollerung all pit

Something happened on the opening lap that the broadcast never resolved: three cars took repairs. Hollerung, winner of the Jerez Feature, lost 2:32 in the pits and was lapped by the leaders.

Christian Schlosser — 15 incident points

A 4:07 repair stop on lap 7 and a late black flag left him 19th, two laps down, with the highest incident count of the race.

Becker and Gründel share the same line for ten laps before the Veedol-chicane pass finally splits them.

Five drivers share a pace window inside 1:57–1:58; behind them the spread opens up fast.

A sprint with no mandatory stop — every box visit here is damage repair. Hollerung’s is 2:32, Christian Schlosser’s 4:07.

Logged telemetry events by driver and race time. The classification’s „Inc“ column uses the official iRacing points instead.

The lap-1 shake-out is brutal: Benjamin Schlosser P4→P17, and three cars head straight for the pit lane.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Grossenbacher, Pfennig, Schrader and Cursio are the movers.

Where each logged incident happened — the Schumacher-S and the Veedol chicane collect most of them.

Lap-by-lap times for all 19 cars. Becker’s 1:56.730 on lap 9 is the low point of the whole chart.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car — Becker–Gründel dominates the matrix, with Schrader–Pfennig a close second.

René Hollerung — reverse P3 to victory

Handed a front-row start by the reverse grid, Hollerung took control early, set the race’s fastest lap (1:41.718) and held a charging Alex Gründel at bay to win the Season 5 opener’s feature by just +1.09 s.

Gründel P8 → P2

The Heat winner, reversed all the way to eighth, sliced back to second and closed onto Hollerung’s gearbox at the flag — barely a second short of the double.

Antonio Cursio P16 → P8

Redemption after his Race 1 retirement: eight places gained from the very back, eight overtakes and a tidy 5-incident sheet — the cleanest recovery of the night.

Müller-Rechner loses reverse pole

Away too early from pole position, Clemens Müller-Rechner drew a black-flag pass-through, served it on lap 1 and tumbled from first to a recovered P10.

Brechmann out after 7 laps

Andre Brechmann’s evening ended early — a spin and a technical issue left him parked, the only retirement of an otherwise full-distance field.

Top five in 3.75 s

Hollerung, Gründel, Barth, Grossenbacher and Brand were covered by under four seconds at the line — identical Cup cars, decided on track position.

Hollerung edges clear as Gründel carves through from P8 — the two lines converge again in the closing laps.

The front-runners’ pace windows sit almost on top of one another in the 1:41.7–1:42.1 bracket.

Sprint format — no mandatory stop. Müller-Rechner’s lap-1 stop is the black-flag pass-through; Berger’s later stop is a repair.

Every logged incident with exact race-time and type — the busy midfield around Schober lights up early.

The reverse-grid shake-out: Gründel P8→P2, Cursio P16→P8, while Müller-Rechner’s jump-start drops him from P1.

Green = positions gained on track, red = lost. The reverse grid makes this the liveliest overtaking chart of the round.

Where on the twisty 15-corner Jerez layout each logged incident happened.

Lap-by-lap times for all 16 drivers — Hollerung’s early 1:41.7 sets the tone at the front.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of one another — the Hollerung–Gründel duel and the Barth–Grossenbacher–Brand pack light up the matrix.

Alex Gründel — pole to flag

Gründel converted pole into a controlled lights-to-flag win, set the fastest lap (1:41.418) and pulled clear to take the Season 5 opener by +7.72 s.

Carl Sören Schober P16 → P7

The biggest climb of the Heat: nine places gained from the back of the grid and eleven overtakes, though it came with a busy 14-incident scoresheet.

B. Schlosser & Meyers on the podium

Benjamin Schlosser climbed from P5 to second, with Dominique Meyers slipping from P2 to third — Willi Brand and Benedikt Barth completed the top five.

Cursio’s race unravels on lap 2

Antonio Cursio picked up early damage, pitted for repairs on lap 2 and lost almost three minutes — classified 16th, a lap down, and the only car off the lead lap.

Gründel controls from the front; the chasing pack of Schlosser, Meyers, Brand and Barth stays bunched behind.

The front five’s pace windows overlap tightly in the low 1:41s — identical cars, wafer-thin margins.

Sprint format — no mandatory stop. Cursio’s lap-2 repair stop is the lone in-race visit to the pit lane.

Every logged incident with exact race-time and type — the low-grip kerbs of Jerez claim their share early on.

Schober’s P16→P7 line dominates the chart, while Cursio’s lap-2 stop sends him to the back.

Green = positions gained on track, red = lost. Schober is the clear standout of the standing-start Heat.

Where on the twisty 15-corner Jerez layout each logged incident happened.

Lap-by-lap times for all 16 drivers — Gründel’s lap-15 1:41.418 is the fastest of the race.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of one another — the P2-to-P5 fight behind Gründel lights up the matrix.

Silvio Foth — #117, NJB Performance

Took the title fight by the throat: pole position, a lights-to-flag Race 1 win, and a battling P5 in the reverse-grid Race 2. With closest rival Andre Rajkovic scoring nothing all evening, Foth wraps up the Season 4 Porsche Community Cup crown.

Rajkovic’s double DNF

Championship leader on raw points but carrying a drop result, Andre Rajkovic (#99, Team Heusinkveld) disconnected from both races — out after four laps in Race 1, a no-score in Race 2 — and left the finale empty-handed.

Foth · Rajkovic · Brand

Going into the finale the net standings read Foth ahead of Rajkovic, with Willi Brand (#68) locked onto third. Foth’s finale haul confirms that order for the season. Official final points are confirmed once CLS publishes Round 8.

Benjamin Schlosser — P6 → P1

Reversed onto row three, Schlosser (#83) picked the five-car fight apart and drove away — five places gained, the race’s fastest lap (1:28.267) and a 12.7 s margin at the flag. A faultless drive to cap his strongest weekend of the season.

A five-car scrap for P2–P6

Thomas Felix, Andy Weber, Jan Tobias Schrader, Silvio Foth and Don Utz ran nose-to-tail for the entire second half. Just 2.7 seconds covered P2 to P6 at the line — trading places lap after lap while Schlosser escaped up front.

Foth, Brand & Utz tangle

The race’s flashpoint: Willi Brand ran wide and forced contact with Foth in the pack, then had to hand the place back. The three-way duel cost Brand dearly — he slipped from the fight to P7, while Foth salvaged P5.

Silvio Foth — pole to flag

The championship leader converted pole into a controlled lights-to-flag win, set the fastest lap (1:27.532) and crossed the line with a zero-incident sheet. Exactly the drive the title fight demanded.

Rajkovic out on lap 4

Andre Rajkovic ran in the leading group — and set a 1:27.730 — before disconnecting after four laps. The closest title rival scored nothing, a result Foth pounced on from the front.

Brand & Schlosser complete the podium

Willi Brand brought it home second at +2.2 s, with Benjamin Schlosser third — the same B. Schlosser whose P3 here reversed him to P6 for a winning Race 2.

Silvio Foth

From P6 on the reverse grid to the lead inside five laps — the decisive pass on Jan Tobias Schrader came with a slipstream run on the Parabolika. Controlled the gap to the flag and answered Andre Rajkovic’s Race 1 win in the title fight.

Rajkovic vs Brand — same gap

P2 and P3 both classified at +3.02 s — Willi Brand closed onto Rajkovic’s gearbox on the final lap and crossed the line almost alongside, setting the race’s fastest lap (1:38.394) in the chase.

Benjamin Schlosser P10 → P4

Six positions gained from tenth on the grid, including a clean stab down the inside of the Sachskurve — the biggest climb of the evening. All 12 cars finished on the lead lap.

Foth controls from lap 5; Rajkovic and Brand converge to ~3 s at the flag — their two lines end on top of each other.

The top four’s pace windows overlap almost completely — four drivers in the 1:38.4–1:38.5 bracket in identical cars.

Sprint format — no mandatory stop. Logged pit entries cluster after the chequered flag (post-race returns), so read this view with caution.

Every logged incident with exact race-time and type — a quiet race for 12 cars, with the action concentrated in the opening laps.

The reverse-grid shake-out: Foth P6→P1, Rajkovic P8→P2, B. Schlosser P10→P4 — while Andy Weber’s early spin drops him from P2 to last on lap 1–2.

Green = positions gained on track, red = lost. The reverse grid makes this the liveliest overtaking chart of the round.

Where on the Hockenheimring each logged incident happened.

Lap-by-lap times for all 12 drivers — Brand’s late 1:38.394 hunting Rajkovic stands out against the field’s settling pace.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of one another — the Rajkovic–Brand pairing and the midfield cluster around Schrader light up the matrix.

Andre Rajkovic

Took the lead from pole-sitter Willi Brand in the opening phase at the hairpin and defended it for 16 laps with just 2 incident points — by far the cleanest sheet in the lead group — final margin 0.50 s.

Silvio Foth — 1:38.458

Set on lap 11 while running P3 — over half a second quicker than his own qualifying time, and the fastest lap anyone managed all evening in either race.

Top 3 within 1.02 s

After 26 minutes of racing, Rajkovic, Brand and Foth crossed the line covered by a second — and all 12 starters finished on the lead lap with zero retirements.

The podium trio’s lines never separate — 16 laps inside roughly one second, the tightest lead group of the PCCD season.

Identical machinery, tight windows: the front four separated by consistency, not raw speed — B. Schlosser’s pace says podium, his finishing position says spin.

Sprint format — no mandatory stop, and Race 1 stayed out of the pit lane almost entirely.

Every logged incident with exact race-time and type — including the early lead-group contact at the hairpin that decided the race.

Rajkovic’s P2→P1 swap with Brand around lap 5 and B. Schlosser’s drop out of the lead group on lap 7 are the two decisive moves; the rest of the field locks in early.

Green = positions gained on track, red = lost.

Where on the Hockenheimring each logged incident happened — the hairpin braking zone earns its reputation.

Lap-by-lap times for all 12 drivers across the 16-lap sprint — Foth’s lap-11 charge is clearly visible.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of one another — the Rajkovic–Brand–Foth triangle dominates the entire matrix.