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Supercars All Star Eseries comes to a close

The last ten weeks since COVID-19 hit the motorsport world, it’s given an opportunity to really dive into Esports, and a number of our team members were fortunate enough to work with the Walkinshaw Andretti United team for the Supercars All-Star Eseries, in conjunction with WAU Simulation Partner Motum Simulation.

Sam Blacklock – Race Engineer for Chaz Mostert

Simon Feigl – Race Engineer for Bryce Fullwood

Dayne Warren – Race Engineer for Alexander Rossi & Lando Norris

Zachary Hanlin – Race Engineer for Zak Brown

Each week we would run through all aspects of the race preparation including coaching & strategy, and assist in tuning the Motum equipment to maximize its performance and comfort for the drivers. Both Chaz and Bryce were newcomers to Sim Racing but adapted brilliantly, and showed off their skill and determination to finish a bunch of wins and podiums for Chaz to finish 5th, and Bryce just outside the top 10 at the season’s end. The whole WAU crew were brilliant to work with, and it was an absolute pleasure having them with us for this journey into Esports.

Many thanks to Mat, Bruce & Ryan, Carl & Adam, AJ, and the rest of the WAU crew that we enjoyed some great nights racing with. We can’t wait to see the #25 and #2 fly around Sydney Motorsport Park in a couple of week’s time.

#WalkAndUnite 🙌

iRX Rallycross WCS Qualifier off to a solid start

The iRacing iRX World Championship Qualifiers kicked off in earnest with the first SOF race of the week taking place at Sonoma. There’ll be more to come this week, however Beau Albert put together a solid drive in his Subaru WRX to finish in 4th place in the feature race.

Pro Qualifiers are gruelling at the best of times, and this will be no exception. 12 weeks of non stop action!

Let’s do this Bobo!

Yannick wins French Cup 2020!

The Coupe de France 2020 took place this year in the Dallara F3, amid a massive field of more than 230 participants. The race format requires a high level of consistency and raw pace to be able to make your way into the final, and Yan showed guile and reserve throughout the event to show why he is one of the very best drivers in France.

Having won the title in 2018 and finishing close behind in 2019, he was looking to return to the top and gave himself an almost perfect start by putting the Altus F3 on the front row. Yan got away to a fantastic getaway in the long run up to Turn 1 at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, eventually opting for the outside line through Turn 1 enabling him to take the inside line into Turn 2. A great opening lap tussle with Tomas Petitjean would see Yan come out on top, with Tomas having to defend P2 losing valuable time in the early laps. This allowed Yan all the margin he needed to put together an excellent and consistently fast race to take the victory ahead of Petitjean who showed his class to finish close behind in P2.

Congratulations Yan you beast! 👏👏👏

Oscar wins F2 Virtual GP, finishes 5th in F1 Virtual GP!

Oscar Piastri made his debut performances at last weekend’s F1 Esports Virtual Grand Prix, racing for Renault F1 Team in Virtual Formula 1 alongside footballer Aymeric Laporte, and representing Prema Team in Virtual Formula 2 alongside Arthur Leclerc at Enstone having recently moved back over to England from Australia.

In the end it was P5 for Oscar Piastri in his F1 Virtual GP debut, particularly impressive after being hit into Turn 1 and dropping as low as P16 at one point at Baku. Oscar also won the F2 race earlier, in what was his first competitive outing for Prema Team whom he will be racing for in FIA Formula 3 in a month’s time.

GG Oscar!

Welcome OWN3D.TV to Altus

We’re pleased and excited to welcome own3d.tv – Better Game Streaming as a new Official Partner of the team, providing support and expertise into online streaming on Twitch. Our Altus Esports custom animated streaming package is currently in development, and we are very excited to show this to you all later this month.

Own3d are the industry leaders when it comes to customised streaming overlays and streaming tools, which can work directly within most streaming software including OBS and Streamlabs OBS which we use within our Twitch streams.

If you’re serious about streaming, you’ve got to go with Own3d.tv.

Scott seals AOSC Title

Heading into Friday’s Australian Online Supercar Championship race at Watkins Glen, the title was there for the taking in what was the penultimate round of this season. It would be a full attack on the track to take the win, and he would start from 3rd place on the grid in a train behind Jordan Ross and Jack Boyd, but would jump both of them in a tight pit stop cycle and hold onto the lead for the remainder of the race to win the championship in style.

Congratulations James! 🤙

Cooper Wins Porsche Esports Sprint Challenge Round 3!

Cooper Webster got his debut performance for Altus Esports off to the best possible start, claiming victory in the Porsche Esports Sprint Challenge and taking his series winnings to $900 USD. 💰

He got off to a fantastic start by claiming 2nd position in qualifying, however with the pole sitter unable to take to the grid he found himself leading the way into turn 1, and was able to control the race from the front for a flag to flag victory.

Elsewhere, Antti Ahola showed excellent late race pace to finish fourth and is piecing together an excellent championship tilt with consistent finishes from the first four rounds despite less than ideal qualifying positions.

Simone Maria Marcenò didn’t quite match his earlier qualifying performances and found himself in 5th early, however side to side contact would cause both he and his competitor to spin out of contention on lap 5, but able to finish down in the order. Yannick too found a tough time, without a representative lap time and starting at the back of the back, was caught up in an incident and finished a few laps behind the leaders.

Cooper now moves to 2nd in the championship after three rounds, having missed the opening round at Zandvoort which is a fantastic performance in just two races. The series takes a break until racing at Le Mans in mid June.

Supercup struggles for Warren

Round 3 of the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup started out very strongly, with Dayne Warren posting the fastest time in practice, and the 2nd fastest time in Qualifying.

However starting P7 on the grid from the Top 8 qualifying invert proved problematic, with Dayne being caught out on Lap 1 expecting the car in front to have a better run through the fast chicane, and tagging the back of Red Bull driver before being rolled over himself shortly after. Dropping to near last position and with a damaged car, he was unable to gain much ground in the short 15 minute race, and with the feature race taking the grid from the sprint race this one error would compound the weekend further. Dayne would wind up finishing 36th and 21st in both races

For Tuomas Tähtelä, he would unfortunately be caught out in qualifying with a fuel issue not allowing him to complete a respective lap time in the session whilst leaving the run late. He would be 36th after qualifying, and like this circuit where passing is difficult to achieve, he would wind up finishing 27th and 24th from his two races.

Despite the frustrating weekend, Dayne now sits 6th overall in the championship after 3 rounds and is still well in the championship despite a bad round, with Tuomas further back inside the Top 30. To add to a great Murray Walkerism, “Anything can happen in the Porsche Esports Supercup, and it usually does”.