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Maurice Becker — won it in the pit lane

Pole, then second for thirty-three laps with no way past. He stopped three laps before Wonnenberg, the leader’s stop went wrong, and Becker came out in front and stayed there.

11.699 seconds

A gap that says nothing about the race. For two thirds of the hour these two ran within a second of each other; every second of the final margin came from one pit stop and one fuel problem.

Becker vs. Wonnenberg — 33 of 47 laps

Inside 1.5 s for thirty-three laps and not one overtaking attempt that came close. St. Petersburg gives equal cars nowhere to go, and the fastest lap of the race — Becker’s 1:11.959 — bought him nothing.

43.1 s vs. 36.5 s

Wonnenberg overshot his crew, reversed, still had no fuel going in and reversed again. “Ich habe halt leider meinen Boxenstopp komplett verkackt.” Nearly nine seconds off the fastest stop of the race.

Then he ran short of fuel on the last lap and lost second to Mike Zocher as well.

Justin Christiansen — 0.904

#15 (Pro, BMW) takes the highest merit score of the season so far: P25 to P9, twenty overtakes, four incident points.

Also outstanding: Fritz Morawetz (P26→P16, 24 overtakes) · Ricardo Still (P18→P7) · Kevin Osiewacz (P16→P11)

Schleich takes the AM lead

Elias Schleich qualified fifth overall, finished fifth overall and won AM by twelve seconds — enough to take the championship lead from Benjamin Warnow, who was wrecked on lap 1. GDC went to Michael Endres from Markus Heinzl.

Two races ended at one corner

St. Petersburg’s pit exit rejoins blind. With Markus Groß coming out on lap 36–37, both Lukas Zörlaut and Dennis Richter were collected. Richter was out on the spot; Zörlaut took a 132-second repair.

Richter, on air, minutes later: “Ich hab mir beide Onboards angeguckt. Beide sehen nichts. Also wirklich nichts.”

57.8 °C, one caution, five retirements

Dry and sunny throughout, with the track climbing from ~44 °C to 57.8 °C by the flag. A lap-1 pile-up brought the only caution of the race, three laps of full course yellow. Twenty-four of the 29 starters were classified as finishers.

The leader’s line is the axis. Note the vertical scale is set by the retirements at the bottom, so the front of the field is compressed into the top band — where Becker and Wonnenberg are a single line for two thirds of the race. The crossover just after lap 36 is the pit cycle.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. On a 72-second lap the classified field fits inside about two seconds, and the two leaders are essentially the same car: 1:12.9 and 1:13.0 average over 47 laps.

Each bar is one pit event with its stationary time. The mandatory stop clusters between minute 41 and minute 49; everything before minute 15 is lap-1 damage, including the two ~200-second repairs for Warnow and Marius Becker. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

Time lost against the fastest fuel-only stop of the race (34.4 s). This is the whole story of the round: Wonnenberg at 43.1 s, Becker at 36.5 s. Stationary time only — it does not include the in- and out-lap.

The lap-1 caution reshuffles the whole midfield, then almost nothing changes until the stops. Justin Christiansen’s climb from P25 to P9 is the one line that keeps moving all race.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. The recovery drives dominate; the front three are all close to zero, because nothing at the front was decided on track.

Top-10 lap time per lap. The flat opening is the three-lap full course yellow; after that the two leaders run a metronome apart, and the single spike per driver is their stop. Nobody changed tyres — at these temperatures a change costs about twelve seconds on top of the fuel.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, top 12. The two dark squares are Becker–Wonnenberg (33 laps) and Gradwohl–Christiansen (38), with Zocher–Schleich also on 33 and Groß–Schleich on 28.

Yannick Wonnenberg

Pole, the lead into Turn 1 and 42 laps out of 42 in front — no lead change all race. His second win in a row, and in only his fifth start of Season 13.

1.730 seconds

Maurice Becker closed from four seconds to three and no further. Wonnenberg had held the gap deliberately and eased off completely for the last three laps — which is where the final margin came from.

1:23.672 / 1:24.040

The top five in qualifying covered 0.154 s, and Wonnenberg and Lukas Zörlaut were split by a single thousandth before the final runs. Maurice Becker took the race’s fastest lap on lap 19. Nobody matched a qualifying 1:23 in the race.

Becker vs. Richter, 20 minutes

Same move every lap — tow, outside into Turn 1, better exit line for the Ferrari. One pass, one immediate counter-pass, and only then a break. It cost them both far more than it cost the leader.

Robert Zellner

#360 (AM, McLaren) takes it on 0.772: seven places gained from P27 to P20, 16 overtakes, two incident points — and a mid-race crash recovered from along the way.

Warnow by 0.334 s

Ricardo Still led AM almost all race and threw it away with a late slide. Benjamin Warnow and Christoph Kiesel fought it out to the final corner. GDC went to Björn Krumpschmied, from Bernhard Wlach and Markus Heinzl.

Christoph Kiesel — zero

The only driver in the field to finish on 0 incident points, and he did it while fighting for the AM win. Toughest race: Kevin Homburg on 15, a black flag and 31 laps.

25.8 °C, hazy, no cautions

An overcast in-sim morning that never cleared, and a track everyone described as unusually slippery. 28 drivers appeared after a long summer withdrawal list; all 28 were classified and 22 finished on the lead lap, with not one caution period.

The leader’s line is the axis. The tight bundle at the top holds the first five for the whole hour; the deep V between laps 23 and 29 is the mandatory stop working through the field, and the early plateaus at 60–75 s belong to Markus Groß and Alvin Frauenknecht, who both stopped early with damage.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. On an 85-second lap the classified field fits inside roughly two and a half seconds — and the average lap of the winner and the runner-up differed by four hundredths over 42 laps.

Each marker is one pit event with its stationary time. The mandatory stop clusters between minute 33 and minute 40; the early outliers at minute 23–26 are the damage repairs (Groß, Frauenknecht, Holtmann, Micewski). Manfred Baar’s lap-1 stop, Justin Christiansen’s 215-second repair and Kevin Homburg’s four visits are all visible at the bottom.

70 logged telemetry events across the hour, coloured by type — 31 losses of control, 26 offs and 13 contacts, which is what an unusually slippery surface looks like. The three penalty markers all belong to Kevin Homburg: one black flag and two forced repairs. The Inc column in the classification below is the official iRacing figure, not this count.

F1-style position track. The flat line at the top is the entire story of the lead. The interesting movement is Markus Groß dropping fourteen places in the opening laps and climbing back to P7 on the early stop, and the steady rise of Robert Zellner and Mike Girenz out of the last rows.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Robert Zellner tops it at +7 net from Marius Becker (+6), Fritz Morawetz and Mike Girenz (+5). Markus Groß made more passes than anybody in the field and still finished net −4 — the cost of that opening-lap hit.

Every logged incident projected onto the circuit. Three clusters do most of the damage: the infield chicane and the Turn 7–10 sequence, the braking zone into the final corners, and the run off the banking at Turn 1 — exactly the places the drivers complained about on air.

Stationary time at the mandatory stop against the quickest of them (Mike Zocher, 60.3 s). Twenty-four drivers sit inside a five-second band; the single outlier is Gregor Micewski at 82.6 s, and it cost him five places. This is service time, not net strategic gain — Indy’s pit lane is long enough that where you stop matters more than how long you stand still.

Top-10 lap time per lap. Everybody is slow early on a green, greasy surface, everybody spikes once at their own stop, and the second stint is flatter and quicker than the first — on tyres nobody changed, because at Indy a tyre change costs roughly twelve seconds on top of the fuel.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, top 12. The dark square is Benjamin Warnow and Christoph Kiesel — 33 of 42 laps nose to tail for the AM win. Behind it: Zocher–Richter (20), Zörlaut–Marius Becker (18), Marius Becker–Frauenknecht (17) and Maurice Becker–Richter (15).

Yannick Wonnenberg

Pole with his last qualifying lap, the lead from the green flag, and 16 laps out of 16 in front. No lead change all race — his first win of Season 13 in only his fourth start.

0.639 seconds, 16 laps

Dennis Richter ran between 0.5 s and 1.8 s behind Wonnenberg from lap 3 to the flag and never attempted a move. Wonnenberg afterwards: an unspoken agreement between the two Speed Monkeys cars.

3:52.590 / 3:53.686

Wonnenberg found a tow on his final qualifying lap for pole, 0.315 s clear of Mike Zocher. In the race he set a 3:53.686 on lap 8 — and Zocher answered with a 3:53.687. One thousandth over 13.6 km.

Kevin Homburg

#41 (Pro, Mercedes-AMG) takes it on 0.986: no qualifying time at all, 22 places gained from P32 to P10, 22 overtakes and a single incident point. From Markus Groß, Don Utz and Christian Kaschta.

Four cars, three laps

Michael Gasser and Aaron Hatcher were both out by lap 2, Michele Grupe by lap 3, and Mike Zocher spun from P2 to P17. All four retirements were drivers who parked the car and quit after damage.

Ricardo Still

Class pole and the class win, P11 overall — and he held Elias Schleich off through the whole first stint. GDC went to Markus Heinzl (P17), from Don Utz and Michael Endres.

Three zero-incident sheets

The winner, Gregor Micewski and Elias Schleich all finished on 0 incident points. Toughest race: Marcel Holtmann on 11.

22.6 °C, misty, 29 finishers

A cool, foggy in-sim morning — track 22.6 °C, air 19.6 °C. 33 of 41 registered drivers appeared; 29 saw the flag, and the single-file rolling start went through the chicane without a scratch.

Two lines on top of each other for the whole hour: Richter never further than 1.8 s from Wonnenberg, never closer than half a second. The single V across laps 7–8 is the mandatory stop — taken by the entire field inside two laps.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. On a 13.6 km lap the whole classified field fits inside about six seconds — roughly 2.5 % — which is why track position mattered more than pace.

Each bar is one pit event. The dense block between minute 28 and minute 37 is the mandatory stop on laps 7–8; the isolated early bars are the lap-2 damage repairs of Endres and Gasser, and the late ones are second visits by drivers who had already lost the race.

This round’s telemetry log carries no incident stream at all, so this chart shows only what it does contain: two forced repairs, Michael Endres at minute 12 and Michael Gasser at minute 22. The incident points in the classification below are the official iRacing figures.

F1-style position track. The flat yellow line at the top is the whole story of the lead; the two long diagonals climbing from the bottom are Kevin Homburg (P32 to P10) and Markus Groß (P22 to P8). The vertical drop on lap 2 is Mike Zocher’s spin.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Kevin Homburg tops the field at +21 net, from Markus Groß and Benjamin Warnow. Michael Gasser’s deep negative bar is not a bad race — it is the whole field going past his stationary McLaren on lap 2.

Time spent stationary at the mandatory stop, against the quickest of them. The real one-stop field sits in a narrow 54.8–58.3 s band; the baseline is Michael Endres’s 51.0 s, who split his refuelling across two visits. Only Justin Christiansen and Thomas Herbrig lost genuine time here. This is service time, not net strategic gain.

Top-10 lap time per lap. Everyone is slow on lap 2 (cold tyres, misty morning), everyone spikes on lap 9 — the out-lap after the stop — and from lap 11 the leaders hold a flat line in the low 3:54s on tyres nobody replaced.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. Le Mans produces less of this than a short circuit — the long straights stretch the field — but the leading pair and the Still/Schleich AM duel are both clearly visible.

Markus Groß

The #81 Ferrari 296 took the lead on lap 10, gave it back only through the pit cycle and won by +2.95 s — his second win of Season 13.

Three cars, five seconds

Groß, Zocher and Zörlaut finished covered by 4.74 s after an hour, and spent almost all of it within a second and a half of each other — touching, in Andreas’s words, at almost every braking point.

1:37.931 / 1:37.982

Mike Zocher took pole by 0.026 s from Zörlaut, with Groß third — the top three inside seven hundredths. Groß then set the race’s fastest lap on lap 11, still shy of the pole time.

Klaus Oberländer

#86 (Pro, BMW M4) takes it on 0.750: up 11 places from P24 to P13, 20 overtakes and just 4 incident points — the cleanest of the big climbers, from Justin Christiansen and Aaron Hatcher.

One yellow, plenty of damage

Contact put Mike Girenz’s Porsche sideways and collected half a dozen cars behind. The full-course yellow ran three laps — the only caution of the race.

Elias Schleich

P9 overall and the class lead taken from Warnow in the pit phase — the first win for his new team simracelab.de, from Benjamin Warnow (P11) and Ricardo Still (P12).

Robert Gradwohl

The only zero-incident sheet in a 34-car field, on the way to P20 — and the quickest genuine service stop of the race at 27.8 s.

45 °C, no retirements

Track temperature peaked past 45 °C; with a 12-second surcharge for a tyre change nobody took new rubber. Despite that, all 34 starters made the flag.

Three lines sit on top of each other from lap 5 to the flag. The staggered V between laps 16 and 27 is the mandatory pit window; the field-wide compression at laps 2–4 is the full-course yellow.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and caution laps removed. The leading group stacks into the low 1:39s on a track hot enough to cook the tyres inside two laps.

Each orange bar is one pit event. The mandatory stops spread from minute 31 to minute 47 because the three yellow laps saved everyone fuel; the isolated bars near minute 5 are lap-1 damage repairs, and Mario Severn’s 66 s is the closed-pit-lane penalty.

103 logged telemetry events by driver and race time — 84 off-tracks, 15 collisions, 4 spins. The dense column on the far left is the opening-lap chain reaction. Incident points in the table are the official iRacing figures, which are higher.

F1-style position track. The flat top three tell the story of the race; the long diagonal climbing from the bottom is Maurice Becker, from last on lap 1 to P10.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Aaron Hatcher tops the field on +18 net. Becker made just as many passes (35) but was passed 39 times while he was going backwards on lap 1, which is why his bar reads negative.

Every logged incident projected onto the circuit. The two hot spots are exactly where Andreas predicted them: the exit of the Nordkurve, and the Spitzkehre at the end of the Parabolika.

Stationary time at the mandatory stop versus the quickest of them (Gradwohl, 27.8 s). The whole leading group is inside three seconds of the best, which is why nothing changed hands in the pit phase. This is service time, not net strategic gain.

Top-10 lap time per lap across the 34 laps. The plateau at laps 2–4 is the yellow; after it, the leaders hold a remarkably flat line on a set of tyres nobody was going to replace.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. Hockenheim produced far more of this than expected — the lead trio never separated, and the midfield ran in nose-to-tail packs for the full hour.

Mario Severn

The #69 Mercedes-AMG took the lead on lap 35 and won by +4.81 s — his first win of the season, and by his own admission one handed to him.

34 laps, then two mistakes

Polesitter Maurice Becker led laps 1–34 with a cushion of about 47 s, then lost it all to an error on lap 33 and a heavier one on lap 35. He finished P5.

Maurice Becker

1:16.902 — the pole man (1:16.759) was fastest in the race too. The only headline stat he didn’t take home was the win.

Björn Krumpschmied

#666 (AM, Corvette) is the merit pick on 0.924: up 12 places from P30, recovered 13 from a P31 low, 25 overtakes and zero incidents.

P4 by 0.105 s

Christian Hartl held off the recovering Becker by just over a tenth after nearly an hour — +14.509 s to +14.614 s.

Benjamin Warnow

P6 overall for the class win, from Christoph Kiesel (P7) and Hubert Diethard (P9) — the whole AM podium finished with a zero-incident sheet.

Kevin Osiewacz

From P31 to around P13 with the field’s best overtake count, then the wall on lap 37 — and the highest incident count of the night at 14.

Dry, walls close

~33 °C track / ~19 °C air, light cloud. 46 laps in ~60 minutes, one mandatory stop, no full-course yellows and just one lead change.

Maurice Becker’s flat line at the top is 34 laps of control — then the two spikes near lap 33 and 35 where the lead evaporated. The shared V around lap 27 is the mandatory pit window.

Clean-lap distribution. The top five stack into the high 1:17s / low 1:18s — on a wall-lined street circuit consistency mattered more than one-lap speed.

Each orange bar is one pit event. The mandatory stop clusters tightly between laps 26 and 29; the long tail on Thomas Kuebler’s row is a car stuck in a repeated pit-lane loop, not strategy.

This log recorded no per-incident telemetry events, so the timeline shows only penalties and forced repairs — Mike Zocher’s black flag 51 seconds after the green is the leftmost marker. Incident points in the table come from the official iRacing result instead.

F1-style position track. Becker’s line runs along the top until lap 34 and then drops away; the climbing lines belong to Kevin Osiewacz, Florian Eigner and the AM recovery drives.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Kevin Osiewacz leads the field on +23 net from P31 on the grid; Klaus Oberländer’s −19 is a two-lap night, not a lack of pace.

Stationary time in the box versus the quickest stop. Worth reading carefully: measured as total lap-time loss the front-runners were much closer together (Severn +35 s, Zörlaut +34 s, Becker +31 s), so this chart shows service time, not net strategic gain.

Top-10 lap time per lap across 46 laps. The two-stint shape around the pit window is clear, as are Becker’s two spikes in the closing third.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. On a circuit with almost no passing places, the midfield trains ran nose-to-tail for most of the hour.

Yannick Wonnenberg

From pole the #1 BMW M4 led every lap, but had to work for it — winning by just +1.79 s, his second victory in a row.

Two BMWs, 1.79 s

Mike Zocher shadowed Wonnenberg for all 35 laps — the tightest win of the season, and enough to send Zocher to the top of the championship.

Yannick Wonnenberg

1:43.885 — the winner set the quickest lap as well as taking pole and the win, a clean sweep of the weekend’s headline stats.

Hubert Diethard

#777 (AM) is the official CLS pick: up 8 places (P29→P21), recovered 13 from a P34 low, with 21 overtakes — the most in the field.

Yannick Wonnenberg

Pole, win, fastest lap and a zero-incident race — a faultless afternoon at the front of a busy field.

Marcel Holtmann

#242 picked up the field’s highest incident count — 16 — on the way to P32. Christoph Kiesel (15) and Justin Christiansen (12) were next.

Dry & cloudy

~29 °C track / ~23 °C air. 35 laps over ~65 minutes, one mandatory stop, no full-course yellows.

Wonnenberg and Zocher run as one line at the top — barely two seconds apart the whole race; the mid-race V is the shared pit window.

Clean-lap distribution. The two BMWs stack into the low 1:43s, sharing almost the same median pace.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. A single mandatory stop for everyone, clustered across laps 18–21.

Every logged telemetry incident by race-time — a scrappy opening phase and a scattering through the pit window.

F1-style position track. Marius Becker’s slide from the front row and the AM recovery charges are the standout lines.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. The Driver-of-the-Day contenders light up green; Hubert Diethard’s 21 passes lead the field.

Where incidents happened, projected onto the real Virginia Full Course layout — the Climbing Esses and Oak Tree see the most.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Drivers who took extra service or served penalties show the biggest losses.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 35-lap race, with the two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car — the leaders and the tight midfield trains both light up.

Yannick Wonnenberg

The reigning Season 12 champion returned and led every lap from P4, taking the win by +3.07 s in the #1 BMW M4 with a controlled one-stop run.

Front row wiped out

Polesitter Alvin Frauenknecht and P2 Dennis Richter were both out after a single lap at La Source — along with Mike Girenz.

Michele Grupe

2:17.067 — the runner-up set the race’s quickest lap chasing the leader, but never got close enough to strike.

Dirk Bolte

#334 (Porsche 911 GT3 R) climbed from grid P42 to P28 — +14 places and 20 overtakes, the biggest charge of the night (telemetry-derived).

Christian Kaschta

#555 (BMW M4) went the full distance with a spotless zero-incident sheet to P27 — the only clean race card in the field.

Marcel Holtmann

#242 (Porsche) picked up the field’s highest incident count — 19 — plus a late penalty, on the way to P36. Ricardo Still was next with 15.

Dry & warm

Hazy sun, ~32 °C track / ~26 °C air. 26 laps, one mandatory stop, two lap-1 yellows and one more in the pit window.

⚠️ 1 DNS, 7 DNF

8 of 44 didn’t see the flag — most of it from the opening-lap La Source melee that took out the two fastest qualifiers.

Wonnenberg edges clear early and holds a steady ~3 s cushion; Grupe is the only line that keeps him honest all race.

Clean-lap distribution. The lead group stacks into the low 2:17s — winner and runner-up share almost the same median.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. A single mandatory stop for everyone; the frontrunners cycled through without losing position.

Every logged telemetry incident by race-time — the dense spike at the very start is the lap-1 La Source pile-up.

F1-style position track. The lap-1 shuffle is dramatic; Dirk Bolte’s P42→P28 climb is the standout mover.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Dirk Bolte’s 20 overtakes — the most in the field — earned Driver of the Day.

Where incidents happened, projected onto the real Spa layout — clustered at La Source and the Bus Stop chicane.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Drivers who took extra service or served penalties show the biggest losses.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 26-lap race, with the two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car — the tight midfield fights light up far more than the controlled front.

Markus Groß

Pole to win by 0.13 s after a 30-lap Ferrari 296 duel with Korenjak — controlled the second stint and won at the line, set the fastest lap, all with zero incidents, for the maximum 35 points.

0.13 s at the line

Korenjak led with a lap to go; Groß countered on the final lap, retook the lead and defended The Chase to the flag. Three lead changes, decided at Murray’s Corner.

Markus Groß

2:01.134 on lap 15 — the winner set the fastest lap too, edging his own pole pace.

Alvin Frauenknecht

P4 overall in the Melanzani McLaren 720S with 0 incidents for the AM win and a class-maximum 40 points. AM podium: Frauenknecht, Elias Schleich (P9), Benjamin Warnow (P12).

Mike Girenz

#33 (FRAMIDI, Porsche) climbed from grid P33 to P18 — +15 places, 21 overtakes, zero incidents, merit score 0.867.

Mike Zocher, P3

A lonely, spotless run to the final podium spot — +6.67 s, zero incidents, never in the leaders’ fight but never in trouble either.

⚠️ Four DSQs, three DNFs

CLS disqualified Maurice Becker, Michael Gessner, Djavit Segashi and Christian Hartl; Gradwohl, Meyers and Kaschta retired. The tyres-after-refuel rule bit again — but no safety car all race.

Dry & grey

Rain was rumoured all week but never came — overcast, ~18 °C track, early-morning light on the Mountain. Reigning champion Yannick Wonnenberg sat the round out.

Two Ferraris locked together at the front for the full 30 laps — the Groß/Korenjak lines are inseparable, while Zocher holds a lonely third.

Clean-lap distribution. The Pro front-runners pack into the low 2:01s; the winner and runner-up share almost the same median.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. The tyres-after-refuel sequencing again produced black flags for those who got it wrong.

Every logged telemetry incident by race-time. The leaders kept clean sheets; the busiest phase was the pit window and the mountain descent.

F1-style position track. The lead swaps at the pit stops and again on the last lap; Mike Girenz’s climb from P33 to P18 is the standout mover.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Mike Girenz’s 21 overtakes — the most in the field — earned Driver of the Day.

Where incidents happened, projected onto the real Mount Panorama layout — clustered in the tight mountain section and around The Chase.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Drivers who took extra service or a second stop show the biggest losses.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 30-lap race, with the two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. Groß and Korenjak light up the chart — 30 laps nose-to-tail.

Zilvio Korenjak

Pole to win, lights to flag — the Ferrari 296 led 55 of the 57 laps and pulled a gap of around 7.6 s, finishing +10.7 s clear with just one incident.

Zilvio Korenjak

1:02.749 — the winner also set the fastest lap of the race, the only 1:02.7 in the field.

Korenjak, Wonnenberg, Gasser

The order held all hour. Reigning Season 12 champion Yannick Wonnenberg (BMW) took P2, Michael Gasser (McLaren) P3.

Alvin Frauenknecht

P6 overall for the AM win in the Melanzani McLaren, ahead of a spotless Elias Schleich (P7, 0 inc) and Dominik Schmitz. AM podium: Frauenknecht, Schleich, Schmitz.

Ricardo Still

#117 (Neon Simsports Blue, AM) climbed from grid P35 to P20 — +15 places, 14 recovered from his low, 25 overtakes, merit score 0.937.

Markus Groß's black flag

Started P6, stretched his stint and briefly ran P1 without pitting — then a black flag and a spin dropped him to P26 with no points.

Very hard to pass

Blind crests and a narrow line made Oran Park a tough overtake — Maurice Becker shadowed the car ahead for half an hour and still couldn't find a way through, finishing P9.

⚠️ One DSQ, black flags

The new tyres-after-refuel pit rule caught several out — black flags for Lukas Zörlaut and Dominique Meyers. Manfred Baar was disqualified. No safety car all race.

Korenjak edged clear from the start and controlled the gap to around 7.6 s. Wonnenberg and Gasser settled into a processional podium.

Clean-lap distribution. The Pro front-runners cluster in the low 1:03s, with Korenjak's median a clear step quicker than the field.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. The new tyres-after-refuel sequencing produced several black flags for drivers who got it wrong.

Every logged telemetry incident with its exact race-time. Elias Schleich kept a clean sheet; the start and the pit window were the busiest phases.

F1-style position track. Korenjak's flat line at the top tells the story; the recovery drives from the back — Ricardo Still, Strebe, Platzer — are the movers.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Ricardo Still's 25 overtakes — the most in the field — earned Driver of the Day on a track where passing was scarce.

Where on the circuit incidents happened, projected onto the real Oran Park layout — concentrated around the twisty bridge section and the tight corners.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Drivers who took extra service or a second stop show the biggest losses on the right.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 57-lap race, with the clear two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. With overtaking so hard, cars ran nose-to-tail for long stretches — Maurice Becker's stalled chase lights up the chart.

Mike Zocher

Pole to win, lights to flag — the race recorded zero lead changes. The Speed Monkeys BMW M4 led every one of the 32 laps and held Markus Groß off by half a second.

Maurice Becker

1:44.279 — the only sub-1:44.3 of the race. From grid P5 to P3 on the road (M&J Downforce, Porsche), the standout Pro charge of the day.

Zocher, Groß, M. Becker

Covered by just over 7 seconds. Markus Groß (Melanzani, Ferrari) shadowed Zocher all race; Maurice Becker recovered to P3.

Elias Schleich

A huge drive — from grid P22 overall to the AM win (13th overall) with only 2 incidents, in the Prime Racing Team Mercedes. AM podium: Schleich, Warnow, Kiesel.

Christian Kaschta

New this season. #555 (Dat muss Kesseln) gained 11 places (P37→P26), recovered 14 from a P40 low and made 22 overtakes — merit score 0.960. Sponsored coaching from LE Academy.

Micewski & Rajkovic

Both finished with zero incident points — Gregor Micewski (P9 Pro) and newcomer André Rajkovic (P10 Pro, fastest at the Mugello classification event).

One full-course yellow

Just a single caution (three caution laps) across the hour for a 41-car field. Pole-to-flag control for Zocher.

⚠️ Three DSQs

CLS post-race stewarding disqualified Christian Hartl (ran 4th on the road — his registered car didn’t match the car he drove), Alvin Frauenknecht and Mike Girenz. P4 is left vacant in the official order.

Zocher led every lap from pole — the race logged zero lead changes. Groß shadowed him within a second all race; Maurice Becker climbed from grid P5 to close on the podium.

Clean-lap distribution. The Pro front-runners are covered by a couple of tenths — Zocher, Groß and Maurice Becker share near-identical medians around 1:44.4–1:44.6.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. The single mandatory fuel-and-tyre window clusters around mid-distance on the abrasive Glen surface.

Every logged telemetry incident with its exact race-time. Micewski and Rajkovic kept clean sheets; the busiest moments came around the one full-course yellow.

F1-style position track. Zocher’s flat line at the top tells the story; Elias Schleich’s climb from grid P22 to the AM win is the standout recovery. (Telemetry shows on-road order — Hartl ran P4 before his post-race DSQ.)

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. Christian Kaschta’s 22 overtakes — the most in the field — earned him the inaugural Driver of the Day.

Where on the circuit incidents happened — clustered through the banked Esses and the tight Inner Loop bus-stop chicane.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Drivers who took extra service or a second stop show the biggest losses on the right.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 32-lap race, with the clear two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. The Zocher–Groß duel at the front and the dense AM midfield light up the grid.

Lukas Zörlaut

Pole-sitter? No — he started P3. Win and fastest lap in the Mercedes-AMG (NEON Sim Sports Blue), his second victory in a row after Thruxton. Led the run home by +1.39 s.

Lukas Zörlaut

1:25.746 on lap 15 — the only 1:25.7. Mike Zocher was next quickest at 1:25.826, Mario Severn third on 1:25.839.

Zörlaut, Stanzel, Severn

Hendrik Stanzel drove a furious race to P2 (+1.39 s). Mario Severn snatched P3 on the last lap, side-by-side with team-mate Kevin Osiewacz through the Southern Loop.

Justin Christiansen

From AM pole and grid P7, the NEON Sim Sports Blue BMW took the AM win (overall P6) by just 0.46 s over Klaus Oberländer. AM podium: Christiansen, Oberländer, Coldron.

⛽️ Zocher runs dry

Pole-sitter Mike Zocher was running P3 when fuel ran low — his pace fell into the 1:27s and he had to pit on the last lap, dropping from the podium to P9. That gifted P3 to Severn.

Mike Girenz

The only driver in the field with zero incident points (FRAMIDI Racing, Porsche, P5). A model finale drive while the front ran hard.

Zero cautions

Not a single full-course yellow across the hour, despite a heavy crash (Warnow/Baar) and several spins. Two lead changes; the field stayed green to the flag.

🏆 Crowned in S12

Pro: Yannick Wonnenberg (Speed Monkeys, 348 pts) — absent, racing the Le Mans 24h.
AM: Max Coldron (NEON Sim Sports Red).
Teams: Speed Monkeys (570 pts).

Zörlaut took the lead in the second stint and edged away — never headed again. Stanzel reeled Zocher back in after the stops; the das-muss-Kesseln Porsches closed on the podium in the final laps.

Clean-lap distribution. The Pro front-runners are separated by tenths — Zörlaut, Severn and Zocher share almost identical medians.

Each orange bar = one completed stop. The mandatory fuel-and-tyre window clusters near half-distance; Zocher’s late splash-and-dash that cost him the podium is the outlier on the right.

Every logged incident with its exact race-time. Mike Girenz is the lone clean sheet; the back of the field (Warnow, Platzer, Baar) piled up the points without ever triggering a yellow.

F1-style position track. Zörlaut’s climb from grid P3 to a stable lead and Zocher’s last-lap fuel-stop plunge from the podium to P9 are the standout lines.

Green = passes made, red = passes lost. The last-lap Severn/Osiewacz swap for P3 and Gregor Micewski’s mid-field recovery show up here.

Where on the circuit incidents happened — clustered through the fast Southern Loop and the blind, downhill Lukey Heights / MG sequence. Track map: OSM-derived Phillip Island geometry from the iRacing Dashboard project.

Time lost versus the fastest fuel-only stop. Useful for spotting who lost the most in the box — including Zocher’s extra late stop.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 42-lap race, with the clear two-stint shape around the mandatory stop.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of another car. The four-way scrap for P2 in the first stint and the Severn-vs-Osiewacz duel light up the grid.

Lukas Zörlaut

Fastest lap + win, taken from Wonnenberg in the closing laps after a small contact damaged the Lambo. First WCT win this season, +11.2 s margin over Wonnenberg.

Lukas Zörlaut

1:06.305 on lap 41 in the Mercedes-AMG. Wonnenberg only 51 thousandths slower (1:06.356).

Dennis Ulli Richter

From the Magny-Cours disaster (P13, “the suitcase”) all the way to P4 at Thruxton — the Speed Monkeys’ Aston Martin found its window.

Mike Girenz

The only driver in the entire field to finish with zero incident points (FRAMIDI Racing, Porsche, P10). Hendrik Stanzel next-cleanest in the front with just 3 incidents to P5. Zörlaut took 6 incidents including the late contact but won anyway.

Zero cautions

Not a single yellow-flag period the entire race — cleanest 1-hour GT3 WCT we’ve seen this season. Confirms the new iRaceControl restart procedure is working.

☀️ Dry, 25 °C track

Air 19,2 °C · Track 25,2 °C · Skies partly cloudy · Dry (wetness 1). Cool British evening — perfect for a fast circuit.

Zörlaut built the gap progressively and never gave it back. The Speed Monkeys 2-3 (Wonnenberg, Zocher) was contested but stable.

Clean-lap distribution. Zörlaut’s spread is the tightest — pure pace dominance.

Each orange bar = one completed pit stop. Mandatory window visible as the cluster, with a few drivers stopping twice for repairs.

Every incident with exact race-time. Only Mike Girenz (P10) finished with zero incidents; the field actually piled up heavy incident counts across the hour, but never enough density to trigger a yellow-flag period.

F1-style position track. Dennis Ulli Richter’s climb to P4 is the standout line.

Green = overtakes made, red = passes lost. Zörlaut’s net total reflects the one decisive pass on Wonnenberg in the closing laps.

Where on the circuit incidents happened. Cluster around Cobb/Seagrave at the top (the sharpest sequence on the lap) plus the Goodwood/Village complex on the right. Track outline traced from the published Thruxton layout.

Time lost vs. the fastest fuel-only stop. Useful for spotting where strategic time was won or lost in the box.

Top-10 lap-time per lap across the 54-lap race.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other. Wonnenberg vs. Zocher and the AM-class battle for P6-P9 stand out.

Yannick Wonnenberg

Took pole, set the fastest lap, won by +1.48 s after 37 laps — the closest WCT win of the season. Best lap: 1:36.791.

Yannick Wonnenberg

The pole-sitter also set the quickest lap of the race: 1:36.791 on lap 20 in the Lamborghini. Kevin Osiewacz was within 80 thousandths.

1 DNF, 2 DNS

Only Christian Schlosser (P21, 34 laps) failed to finish; Maurice Becker and Antonio Cursio could not start (ISP outage / wheelbase failure).

Mike Girenz

The cleanest classified drive of the day — zero incident points across 37 laps, home in P8.

Christoph Kiesel

20 incident points after an early off and a drive-through penalty for repeated track limits — still classified P20.

4 short cautions

Four brief yellow-flag periods during the race — all under 3 seconds — the new iRaceControl restart procedure delivered a clean start with no first-corner chaos.

☀️ Dry, 27 °C track

Air 21.0 °C · Track 27.0 °C · Skies partly cloudy · Dry (wetness 1). Warm summer evening; several drivers reported cockpit overheating during the broadcast.

Top 8 highlighted — the pit cycle around lap 20 reshuffles the field, then the top three converge for a 2.5 second finish.

Clean-lap distribution per driver, pit-affected and slow laps excluded via iRaceControl's slow_lap markers. Yannick Wonnenberg had the tightest pace window (stdev 0.53 s over 34 clean laps) — pole, fastest lap, win and most consistent.

Each orange bar = one completed pit stop, width proportional to time in pit. The mandatory pit window (highlighted, ~minute 34–38) is where the bulk of the field made their single 33–37 s strategic stop. Long bars (Klaus Oberländer 200 s, Christoph Kiesel 187 s, Christian Schlosser 135 s) are damage-repair time, not strategic choices.

Every on-track incident with exact race-time and type. Most of the drama played out in the final 5 minutes — Benjamin Schlosser’s late collisions (connectivity), Dennis Ulli Richter’s spin trio, Christian Schlosser’s 4-spin sequence into his DNF. Christoph Kiesel’s drive-through black flag is visible at minute 30. The top 4 finishers got through almost incident-free.

F1-style position track per lap. The pit-cycle reshuffle around lap 20-23 is visible as the big crisscross; the top trio reconvenes by lap 25.

Green = overtakes made, red = passes lost. Dirk Bolte made the most net gains (+7), Benjamin Schlosser was passed most often (net -8, connectivity-driven). The Speed Monkeys 1-2 (Wonnenberg + Zocher) finished with net 0 each — pace control, not racecraft.

Where on the circuit each incident happened. The Lycée-and-Chateau-d’Eau complex (upper right) and the technical S-section (centre) absorbed the most drama.

Time lost vs. the field’s fastest fuel-only stop (Mike Zocher, 32.9 s). Wonnenberg and Richter only 1 s slower; Mike Girenz lost 8.7 s in the box — a chunk of his race-pace advantage gone in 30 seconds.

Top-10 lap-time per lap. The pit-stop spikes around lap 22 are visible; the second-stint pace is noticeably stronger than the first for the leaders.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other. Wonnenberg vs. Zocher tops the matrix — the entire race within a second. Top-AM pair Christiansen-Coldron also spent many laps in each other’s windows.

Maurice Becker

Took the win by +41.85s after 25 laps — his best tour of the race was 2:22.193.

Mike Zocher

Set the quickest lap of the race: 2:21.669 on lap 16.

7 cars retired

Only 25 of 32 starters were still running when the flag fell.

Mike Girenz

The cleanest classified drive of the day — just 3 incident points, home in P5.

Christoph Kiesel

A brutal afternoon — 52 incident points and 8 pit visits, yet still classified P24.

69 pit visits

29 penalties and 4 yellow-flag periods across roughly an hour of racing.