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Maurice Becker — a grand slam

Pole, all 39 laps led, the fastest lap of the race, and the win. On top of that, zero incident points in an hour of racing. He was never challenged after Tarzan on lap 1.

20.860 seconds

He was 2.3 s ahead after one lap, 9.4 s by lap 12, 14.6 s after the stops and 20.9 s at the flag. Alvin Frauenknecht in second was the only driver who kept the gap from growing quickly.

Becker on pole, 1:31.276

He was 0.418 s clear of Dennis Richter, with Frauenknecht, Marius Becker and Schleich next. The top 21 were covered by 1.86 s. Andreas Bastian was fastest AM, seventh overall.

Leon Klein — 0.770

#16 (SCHERER eSPORT, Pro) went from 14th to sixth with 15 overtakes on three incident points. The result takes him to the top of the Pro championship.

Maurice Becker in Pro, Bastian in AM

Andreas Bastian won AM in seventh overall after a 34-lap duel with Michael Endres, who led the class for most of the race. Endres was second in class and Manfred Baar third.

Richter: second to last

The front-row starter fell to 22nd after an early contact; the broadcast could not establish the cause. He then made the most passes of the night and finished eighth. Warnow, Micewski and Kuebler were also caught up in the opening laps.

Laps 17–23, 33.9–37.5 s

Every car stopped once. Becker, Richter, Brechmann and Oberländer had the shortest stationary time, 33.9 s. Weber (74.8 s) and Bolte (76.8 s, front repair) were the outliers. The order at the front was unchanged by the stops.

Dry, 19 °C, 22 starters

Dry and overcast, air 19 °C, no cautions and no black flags. There were 22 starters — 12 Pro, 10 AM — with a strength of field of 2450. Championship leader Yannick Wonnenberg did not start.

Becker's yellow line is the axis for all 39 laps. The deep V on laps 22–24 is the pit cycle, which distorts the gaps until everyone has stopped. Frauenknecht's red line drifts steadily out to 20 s.

This shows the spread of clean laps, with pit and out-laps removed. Becker's distribution sits furthest left. Richter's clean laps were among the quickest in the field, which is how he recovered from last.

Each bar is one stop with its stationary time. Micewski, Krumpschmied and Bolte came in first (lap 17), and the leaders last (laps 22–23). The two long bars are Weber and Bolte. Cool-down entries after the flag are excluded.

This is stationary time against the shortest stop, 33.9 s. Twenty of the 22 cars were within 3.6 s of it; Weber and Bolte lost around 40 s more. It shows stationary time only, not net strategic loss.

Becker is a straight line at P1. The zig-zag on laps 22–24 is the stop phase. Richter's line climbs from the bottom of the chart, and Freudling drops from third to fifth in the closing laps.

Green bars are places gained on track and red bars are places lost. Klein leads at +8. Richter has by far the most moves in both directions after his lap-1 drop, and Warnow (−8) the worst net result.

These are logged contacts, spins and off-tracks over the race. The early contacts are Richter, Micewski, Warnow and Kuebler; the final orange-and-red pair is Oberländer's last-lap spin and impact. The official incident points in the table come from the iRacing result.

This shows where the logged contacts, spins and off-tracks happened, projected onto the Grand Prix circuit.

These are top-10 lap times by lap. Becker's yellow line is the lowest almost every lap, in both stints; the bump around laps 21–24 is the stop phase.

This counts laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, for the top 12. Bastian–Endres is the darkest square at 34 laps, then Marius Becker–Schleich at 27 and Marius Becker–Freudling at 20. Becker's row is empty: nobody got near him.

Yannick Wonnenberg

From second on the grid, via a lap-1 slowdown and sixth place after two laps. He set the fastest lap on lap 6, hunted Freudling down to 0.19 s, came out of the lap-17 stops in front and held Becker off to the flag.

0.821 seconds

Becker was 1.25 s behind after the stops and cut it to 0.34 s by lap 27 — but with 13 incident points he could not risk a lunge. The pair ran 26 of 30 laps within 1.5 s of each other.

Becker on pole, 1:58.174

0.137 s clear of Wonnenberg, with Micewski, Freudling and Schleich next. All 28 cars inside 3.641 s; Thomas Kuebler fastest AM in tenth.

Andreas Bastian — 0.818

#921 (NEON Simsports Blue, AM): eleventh to ninth and second in class, with 18 overtakes — the most in the race — after an early stop had dropped him to 23rd.

Wonnenberg in Pro, Kuebler in AM

Thomas Kuebler won AM in eighth overall on just five incident points, 2.549 s ahead of Bastian, with Michael Endres third. No GDC class this season.

Becker, Freudling, Oberländer, Wonnenberg

Becker led laps 1–3, then let Wonnenberg back past after their start contact; Freudling led 13 laps; Oberländer one lap on a later stop; Wonnenberg 13 including every lap after the stops.

Seven black flags, one DSQ

Warnow (two, 26 incident points), Brechmann (two), Still, Platzer and Stummer were black-flagged. Mike Girenz was out in a start-area contact without completing a lap — CLS lists him as DSQ.

Dry, 19 °C, 28 starters

Dry under a hazy sky, air 19 °C, no cautions. 28 starters — 12 Pro, 16 AM — strength of field 2317.

The leader’s line is the axis. The V on lap 19 is the pit cycle — Oberländer briefly on the zero line — and Becker’s red line sitting within a second of it all the way to the flag is the story of the final third.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. Wonnenberg, Becker and Freudling form their own group at the front; the rest of the Pro field sits a step behind.

Each bar is one pit event with its stationary time. The main wave came on lap 17, around minute 34; Warnow’s repeated visits and Brechmann’s long penalty stay stand apart. The late bars for Still and Platzer are their black-flag stops.

Stationary time against the shortest stop. The baseline is Hubert Diethard’s 46.7 s, which the log records as three pit entries on laps 14–15 merged into one; the regular stops ran 50.4–55.9 s, Endres 65.6 s. Stationary time only, not net strategic loss.

Becker on top for three laps, then Freudling’s long spell in the lead, the pit-cycle swap on laps 17–19 and Wonnenberg in front to the end. Micewski’s drop to 16th and climb back to sixth is the other big line.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Alexander Thieme (+9), Dirk Bolte (+8) and Björn Krumpschmied (+6) lead; Brechmann’s penalty stop shows as the deepest red.

Logged contacts, spins, off-tracks and black flags over the race. Most of the black flags came in the second half of the race. Official incident points in the table below come from the iRacing result, not from this log.

Where the logged contacts, spins and off-tracks happened, projected onto the Grand Prix circuit.

Top-10 lap time per lap. Wonnenberg and Becker lap within a tenth or two of each other for most of the second stint; Freudling’s line steps up after the stops as he manages third on 13 incident points.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, top 12. Wonnenberg–Becker is the darkest square at 26 laps; Oberländer–Micewski and the Weber–Oberländer–Still group follow at 15.

Mike Zocher — the grand slam

Pole position, all 38 laps in the lead, the fastest lap of the race and the win. He was never overtaken at any point in the hour, and the win made him Season 13 Pro champion.

9.802 seconds

The largest margin of the closing stretch of the season, and it was built early: 1.25 s after two laps, 4.1 s after six, and never a lap where it came back.

Six thousandths of a second

Zocher’s 1:34.274 beat Wonnenberg’s 1:34.280 by 0.006 s, with Zörlaut third on 1:34.297 — 23 thousandths covering the front three, and all twenty cars inside 2.413 s.

Mike Girenz — 0.808

#33 (FRAMIDI Racing, Pro) started thirteenth and finished sixth: nine overtakes, seven places, two incident points — and he held Ricardo Still off by 1.713 s to the flag.

Still in AM, no GDC entry

Ricardo Still won AM in seventh overall, 8.3 s clear of Manfred Baar, with Thomas Kuebler third in class. Not a single GDC car was entered, so that class was not contested.

Four championships settled

Zocher takes Pro on 330; the Wonnenberg–Zocher one-two sealed the team title for Speed Monkeys on 514. Elias Schleich (AM, 350) and Markus Heinzl (GDC, 245) were champions before the round.

Two cars out, one disqualified

Marius Becker crashed, spent over twenty minutes in the box and left the session after 13 laps — CLS records him as DSQ. Dennis Richter wrecked his Ferrari after contact and finished the night on 16 incident points, the race high.

Dry, ~24 °C, twenty starters

Dry and clear throughout, air about 21 °C and the surface around 24 °C, with no cautions and no lead changes in the whole hour. Twenty starters — 13 Pro, 7 AM — the smallest field of the season, against 33 a week earlier.

The leader’s line is the axis, and it is a straight one. Zocher pulls away from lap 2 onward and the gap only ever grows; the V at laps 21–22 is the pit cycle, and the order comes out of it exactly as it went in.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. The front five sit inside about three tenths on a 95-second lap — the race was decided by track position off the line, not by pace.

Each bar is one pit event with its stationary time. The single stop clusters between laps 21 and 22; everything outside that window is damage or a penalty — Diethard’s cluster of short visits and Christiansen’s three-minute repair stand out.

Time lost against the fastest fuel-only stop of the race. The whole field is inside four seconds of each other — Richter 42.81 s and Groß 42.85 s quickest, the AM runners two to four seconds slower. Stationary time only.

Zocher is a flat line at the top for all 38 laps. The two things that move are Markus Groß’s fall to last on lap 1 and his climb back to ninth, and Mike Girenz’s run from thirteenth to sixth.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. Zocher is at exactly zero — he never had to pass anybody and was never passed. Girenz and Micewski lead the field.

When the contacts, spins and off-tracks happened. Marius Becker fills the first third on his own; the second cluster around the pit window is Christiansen and Richter.

Where they happened, projected onto the circuit. The chicanes and the final-corner wall account for most of them — Montreal punishes a missed apex with a barrier rather than a run-off.

Top-10 lap time per lap. Metronomic at the front, one spike each for the stop, and Maurice Becker’s line stepping up by roughly half a second after his wall contact — the moment third place left him.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, top 12. The dark squares are Wonnenberg–Maurice Becker over the first stint and Zörlaut–Hartl over the last one. Zocher appears in none of them.

Alvin Frauenknecht — pole, and 0.404 s in hand

He took pole by twenty thousandths, lost the lead on lap 1, took it back into Turn 1 on lap 10 and defended it for thirty-one laps against a car that was never more than seven tenths behind.

0.404 seconds

The closest finish of the season, and it understates how close the race was: Wonnenberg was 2.7 s adrift with two laps to go and took almost all of it back on the final tour.

Frauenknecht vs. Wonnenberg — 32 of 40 laps

Thirty-two laps inside 1.5 s of each other. Wonnenberg tried the slipstream and the switchback on the pit straight lap after lap and never got alongside once after lap 10.

Top seven finished in grid order

P1 to P7 crossed the line in exactly their qualifying order — and the first three had qualified within 22 thousandths of each other. The only gain in the top ten was Christian Hartl, P11 to P8.

Robert Zellner — 0.927

#360 (AM, McLaren) started 33rd and last and finished 24th: seventeen overtakes, nine places, eight incident points.

Cleanest run of the night: Danny Platzer, two incident points over the full distance, P29→P22.

Schleich again in AM, Endres in GDC

Elias Schleich won AM for the second round running, twelfth overall, from Ricardo Still and Andreas Bastian. GDC went to Michael Endres in seventeenth overall.

Hatcher and Osiewacz both penalised

The four-car scrap over tenth between Micewski, Gradwohl, Hatcher and Osiewacz ran for a dozen laps and produced two drive-throughs. Osiewacz took a second penalty and parked it — P10 on the grid, P28 in the results.

Dry, 30 °C, no cautions

Clear and dry throughout with the track around 30 °C, and not one caution period in sixty minutes. Twenty-seven of the 33 starters were classified as finishers; most of the six retirements began at the raised kerbs rather than with contact.

The leader’s line is the axis. The whole front of the field is squeezed into the top band — Frauenknecht and Wonnenberg are effectively one line for the entire race. The V at lap 25–26 is the pit cycle, and the two lines come out of it in the same order they went in.

Clean-lap distribution, pit and out-laps removed. On an 89-second lap the top five sit inside about three tenths of each other — which is why nothing changed on track.

Each bar is one pit event with its stationary time. The mandatory stop clusters tightly between minute 31 and minute 38 (laps 21–25); everything outside that window is damage or a penalty. Cool-down-lap entries after the flag are excluded.

Time lost against the fastest fuel-only stop of the race. Unlike St. Petersburg, this round was not decided here: Frauenknecht 36.1 s, Wonnenberg 36.0 s, Groß quickest of the leaders at 35.0 s. Stationary time only.

The top seven are seven flat lines from lights to flag. Everything that moves is behind them — Robert Zellner’s climb from last, and Kevin Osiewacz’s fall from tenth after two penalties.

Green = places gained on track, red = lost. The front three are at exactly zero. Zellner leads the field on seventeen passes.

When the contacts, spins and off-tracks happened. Note the cluster of black flags in the last third — three of the five drive-throughs of the race came out of one four-car fight over tenth.

Where they happened, projected onto the circuit. The concentration is at the raised kerbs on the exits — the single feature that ended most of this evening’s races.

Top-10 lap time per lap. Two metronomes at the front, one spike each for the stop, and Frauenknecht’s slow final lap — a 1:30.963 against the 1:29.1 he had been running, which is where three quarters of Wonnenberg’s deficit went in one tour.

Laps spent within 1.5 s of each other, top 12. The dark square is Frauenknecht–Wonnenberg on 32 laps of 40 — the closest pairing of the season. Groß–Zörlaut on 24, Hartl–Richter on 23, Zocher–Marius Becker on 22.

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.