DRIVER ANNOUNCEMENT!
We’re very excited to announce the arrival of the incredibly talented Fabio Besuch to the Team’s GT Lineup! Fabio has made a strong name for himself competing in the Nurburgring Endurance Championship, as well as the IMSA iRacing Series in the GT3 class where he is quickly approaching 7k iRating.
Fabio will make his debut on Home Turf in the Altus Colours in tonight’s NEC 4 Hour Endurance Race.
Welcome Fabio!
After being involved in one of the first cautions, Michael Cosey Jr. took his Chevy Lumina back through the field to WIN the 2021 Blue-Emu #Firecracker400!
An absolutely HUGE victory, and one of the biggest in our 3 year history! windVOW8820 you are a legend!
After a gruelling Round 1 of the eNASCAR Road to Pro Series, four of our oval stars have made it to Round 2!
#23 Christian Pedersen
#44 Jordy Lopez Jr.
#57 Seth DeMerchant
#99 Michael Cosey Jr.
Round 2 will kick off on July 8th at the Knoxville Dirt Track, and concluding with the seventh and final round at Phoenix Raceway. With only 20 places available, the competition is going to be fierce!
Also… today is our 3rd Birthday! What an exciting few years it has been and there’s plenty more to come!
After a stellar season for our New Zealand Gran Turismo star, Matthew McEwen has qualified for the World Series in the Nations Cup for the first time. He’s also managed to qualify with Mercedes-Benz for the very first time as well in the Manufacturer’s Series too, all from his Racetech NZ sim rig!
Congratulations Matthew!
Last night’s round at Watkins Glen International was a promising one but as is often the case around this track, it can be brutal. That was unfortunately the case for our trio of James Scott, Jordan Caruso and Cooper Webster last night.
Things got off to a good start, with Cooper narrowly winning out Pole Position extending our streak to 7 Pole Positions in a row. However signs began to show that it just may not be our night, as Jordan’s internet dropped during qualifying, and later having an engine blow entering the bus stop on Lap 9 curtailing his running.
James then had a tough first pit cycle from P2, but then made an uncharacteristic error tagging the back of Ellis at turn 1, before being the meat in a three wide sandwich at turn 2 causing major damage and essentially ending any chance of a good result.
It was left to Cooper Webster who did a fantastic job for the bulk of the race, making the right strategic call to come out with the effective lead and a solid 2 second gap after the final stop only for it to be erased by a safety car a few laps later.
It was a fantastic battle with the Trans Tasman Racing cars and United’s Jarrad Filsell, culminating with a very tight battle for the lead laps from the finish. The racer in Cooper went for the win at the bus stop, but it didn’t work out and the Altus charge had ended for this round.
Congratulations to Ethan Warren on picking up his first V8 SCOPS victory, and a deserved one at that.
Onto Oulton Park we go to ready the bounceback, but next is GT3 racing in the Virtual Racing School Sports Car Open Masters this weekend!
Our first resident of the Altus House has moved in!
Welcome Beau Albert!
Beau is streaming LIVE for the first time from the Altus House right now on Twitch @ https://www.twitch.tv/beaualbert for the Aussie Online Gaming Porsche Cup!
Pre Qualifying for the Virtual Racing School Sports Car Open Masters concluded yesterday, where Jordan Caruso & Cooper Webster were able to qualify their BMW M4 GT3 into the $25K prize pool series!
There were tougher times for our Audi & Lamborghini’s who fell short, however with the M4 we are set for a great season ahead.
Round 1 of the series kicks off in a couple of weeks at Hockenheim which should be fantastic!
Today is the day we publicly announce our plans for the future culminating in the first Australian Racing Esports Team House, with great support from our long time partners Logitech G, and Virtual Racing School.
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We cannot wait to share with you updates on the build, setup tutorials, live racing streams and all kinds of other shenanigans.
Starting 3rd on the grid, Yannick got a solid start however the movers came from the 3rd row and made for a very tight Turn 1, resulting in a small bit of contact. Yan had dropped back to 4th and almost out of draft range however ran an excellent race to move up to P2 and create a gap back to the the third place battle. In the end Valentin Mandernach was too strong! Congrats to him!
A very satisfying day for Yan, showing again how much he loves this event. The next one can’t come soon enough!
James Scott & Andrew Kahl fielded the opening round of the Apex Hunters United Endurance Series, and didn’t put a foot wrong for the majority of the race, opening up a staggering 50 second lead before a late safety car erased the deficit.
At the restart, we controlled the position well before tangling with a lapped GT3 runner resulting in an unfortunate drive through penalty. With only 20 minutes left in the race, Andrew put in a tremendous fightback to reclaim second place and was hunting down the leader before just running out of laps.
Nevertheless the performance was exceptional and we have evey reason to be confident moving into the next round of the series. Congratulations to our friends at Drop Bear Motorsport who didn’t put a foot wrong and claimed a great victory.