Tuomas Tähtelä has gotten off to the perfect start in the Finnish Sim Racing Association ESM Digital Motorsport Qualifiers, taking the victory in what was an ultra competitive field with more than 150 competitors taking part.

Tuomas would start off P3 on the grid, and with rivals Tuomainen and Alander contesting for the lead ahead, Tuomas’ move was decisive, showing expert racecraft to get around both of his rivals in what were very clean moves indeed at the tight Okayama circuit. From that point, he was able to manage the gap out front, extending out to 2 seconds and ensuring his competitors wouldn’t get another chance. 🥇

For Antti Ahola, it was an unfortunate result. A difficult qualifying phase last week left Antti sitting outside of the top 10 going into the race, and with the bunched pack heading through the hairpin section, another car was spun in front of him, leaving him with nowhere to go other than the side of him. He was then nursing damage for the 28 lap race, ultimately finishing outside of the Top 20.

The series moves to Zandvoort this weekend, which will be very busy indeed hosting the opening round of the Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup and newly announced Porsche Sprint Challenge, the support category for Supercup. Very exciting times ahead!

The brand new iRacing Endurance Series kicked off for the first time at the weekend, with the Suzuka 12 Hour. The IES is a four round multi-class endurance championship run by iRacing, featuring the GTE, GT3, GT4 and TCR cars.

We felt looking at the entries, and based on our past battles in the TCR with CoRe, that they were going to be our strongest opposition and that was most certainly true. The race got off to a great start after Jackson Souslin Harlow put in an great lap to go P2, narrowly missing out on pole position to CoRe SimRacing, but managed to take an early lead and stretch the advantage out before handing over to Alexander Lauritzen who would continue that trend into the fifth hour.

TCR debutant Zachary Hanlin was in a tricky situation having just starting driving the car this week, however had the might of CoRe breathing down his neck. He settled into a rhythm and did a great job of keeping the car safe and out of harms way, which was easier said than done with three faster classes moving around you.

At the next driver change, Alex would be back in the car and the 50x incident limit starting causing some concern and in the 7th hour, and unfortunately incident would cost the team a drivethrough penalty for exceeding the incident limit. We then also were caught out with a small crash in the 10th hour with a 4x Contact to then give another drive through.

Ultimately the incidents and drive through penalties were the downfall, and we would come home in 2nd Place behind CoRe who had a great race. Certainly a very solid start of the series, and we look forward to the next round in a few months.

By mutual decision, we’ve decided to part ways. Josh Anderson joined the team in late 2019 and we have had good success on the track including qualification for the Porsche Esports Supercup. Despite this, off the track there were some other concerns with self motivation which may surprise many including us, but we felt it was best for Josh and for Altus to part ways officially for now, for the well being of both parties.

Incidentally there were not issues personally or any hard feelings, and we will continue to support each other in Porsche Esports Supercup, albeit with Josh racing as a Privateer.

All the best mate! 👊

Tim Ryan has started off in the best possible way, claiming the opening victory in dominant fashion. The J&S Drilling Altus Esports Sprintcar was on fire, with Ryno winning yesterday’s final heat, and starting from the front for a flag to flag victory. It doesn’t get much better than that! The lead is now 46 points, and we’ll be looking to extend it next round.

Thanks to World Series Sprintcars and Speedway Australia for putting on the Eseries, and we can’t wait to take to the track again.

J & S Drilling Motorsport and Altus Esports are proud to collaborate in the upcoming World Series Sprintcars Eseries by Speedway Australia, as a hybrid Motorsport & Esports team. 2018 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series World Champion Tim Ryan will be contracted to race in the series.

John McLellan, owner of J&S Drilling Motorsports, is excited of the prospects the Esports Racing has and we are thrilled to partner with J & S Drilling to challenge for the win.

J & S Drilling Motorsport has been racing since 2014 and has already experienced great success in the speedway world managing to win back-to-back 360 National Titles with Kaiden Manders, a friend of Tim Ryan’s. We feel that combining our performances of each respective organisation with a former World Champion in Tim, will give us the best opportunity to perform on the track.

On goes the Number 60, and here we go to WSS Racing! We can’t wait to start round 1! 🤙

A charity race called the Race for Relief was put on in conjunction with Gamer Aid to raise funds for those affected by the tragic bushfires late last year and early this year. The race itself, was a multi-class affair and to our knowledge the first of its kind of any kind of major race meeting, the Supercars and the Audi RS3 LMS TCR car.

For this race, we opted for the TCR and after we found out we needed to use numbers above 200, Jackson Souslin Harlow and real world TCR Australia driver Jay Hanson Motorsport borrowed Sam Blacklock’s 215 to put the Altus Audi on Pole Position for the four hour affair. Jackson did an excellent job early, pulling a solid gap before handing the car over to Jay, who has recently been contesting the ARG Esports Cup for Ashley Seward Motorsport in the TCR.

The lead was evaporated in a safety car phase where the rebuild would begin however an altercation with another car in traffic would knock them down the order and almost a lap down. They would mount a fantastic fightback to bring the car towards the front once more, and JSH put the pedal to the metal to extend the margin and win the race comfortably in the end.

Whilst it was a great win for the pair, it wasn’t the star of the show. The true stars were those who donated to the cause, and enjoyed a great race. On behalf of all our fellow racers, thank you for donation!

ILiveries have done it again! In what is arguably one of the best car models on iRacing, we’re stoked to show off our new Dallara F3.

Whilst we all love our new car, there has been a casualty. Can we Press F to pay our respects to Beau Albert’s headlight flashing button? 👀

SPOTTED!

There’s a new beast in town. The Altus Esports Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR.

So… pretty! 😍