As a recap of the V8 SCOPS Premier Series weekend, we thought we’d start with the Porsche Support Series that was run on Friday night, where Beau Albert and ERT’s Riley Preston would have a tremendous stoush for the round. Beau would ultimately come out victorious with a dominant opening race from pole, and narrowly missing out on the Race 2 win, but walked away with the round win nonetheless.

We’re going to take things back to last week’s eNASCAR Road to Pro race at Darlington, where we ran a special one-off retro inspired livery for the race.

It didn’t really turn out to be a good omen, as we had a tough day at the track where we found ourselves in the midfield for the bulk of the race. Highlights were Merch and Cosey being able to move forward from where they qualified, Cosey up a +15 spots and Merch +8, it was a tougher time for Jordy, Matt and Braden who all stayed around where they started in the all-green race. On brighter news, Christian had another top 10 in the second split, and now is sitting pretty inside the Top 10 in the overall standings, with a very consistent run so far.

We’ve already been working towards the next round, with our outright pace in qualifying being a focal point as we head to Charlotte this coming week.

The Australian Online Supercar Championship went into Endurance season, with championship leader James Scott finding himself without an enduro partner given the rules on partner eligibility. James wasn’t the only one in this scenario, with Synergy Sim Racing‘s Jordan Ross also in the same boat. A couple of conversations and a Virtual Racing School setup later, and the AltuSSR pairing was ready!

It didn’t go to plan with a netcode for the ages dropping them back early on, however they both showed great determination to bring the car back to the front, and ultimately taking a Silverstone 650 race win!

There was great Synergy within the Altus Commodore, and a victory capped off a memorable night. Many thanks to Jordan and SSR for joining us for the race.

Having put together a great season so far in the Oceanic Dirt Sim Events- ODSE 360 Power Series 2, Tim Ryan wasn’t about to let a pesky injury get in the way. The week earlier Tim broke his elbow and wrist in a crash on his bike, but with some pain killers and gritted teeth, Tim would get himself a heat win, a Top 8 Shootout win and the overall victory in the feature. GG Ryno!

The F3A Gold series made its way to Imola for the penultimate round to the series, and Julian & Sam were fast from the outset and keeping it clean to take an excellent 1-2 finish. Julian now has a very strong championship lead with Sam shadowing 2nd place heading into the final round at Okayama next week.

The iRacing All-Star Invitational moved onto Barcelona for Round 2, with Luis Núñez returning after a positive opening round. Beau Albert was also making his debut in the series after a technical issue ruled him out of Round 1.

Beau and Luis made the change to Subaru for this round, with neither having spent a great deal of time with the car, however were able to learn a lot and put together a solid showing. Luis won his heat race with a race long battle with Kevin Ellis Jr from Apex Racing Team. The feature was a tougher one, with the opening lap melee catching Luis out a few times leaving him to settle for a 7th place finish.

For Beau it was a tough day at the office after qualifying, and leaving him in the dangerous mid pack which claimed a number of casualties. Nevertheless, we’ll fight on and bring on Round 3!

Coming off a disappointing round at Sebring and a return to action for Jordan Caruso, we were aiming a strong return at Oran Park with our trio of racers.

It got off to an excellent start with Jordan taking Pole Position for Race 1 and James starting P3 however a mistake for Jordan at T3 would open the door to Trans Tasman Racing‘s Madison Down who put on a strong run to take the win, with Jordan and James rounding out the podium and a very strong Race 1. Zac also qualified and finished inside the Top 20 which also was a great result.

In the longer feature race Jordan would take his third pole position of the season, with James close by in 4th place. The error from race 1 did not return and Jordan pieced together a faultless drive, taking the victory with a clear margin back to Hamstead behind. James would come home in 5th place with his strongest round since the season opener, and Zac 16th place finish would also provide his strongest round of the season.

With another round win in the bag, attention now turns to the next round at Road Atlanta on May 16th.

Friday Nights has turned into a racing extravaganza for the team, with the F3A Gold series running as well as the AOSC V8 Series as well (more on that later).

The emergence of the dynamic duo of Sam Blacklock and Julian Dunne has been stellar, regularly up the front and having a great battle with those contesting the series. The pair have each had their time on top of the podium, most recently with Blacklock taking the top step at Oulton Park, with Dunne coming home third for a double podium finish.

Sam now sits atop the standings in P1 with Julian close behind in P2. The nearest challenge comes from DBM x SE driver Kobi Williams who has had a great season to date also.

Roll on Round 8!

Anyone who says the Green Hell is tame is lying! We took our Audi R8 LMS to the fight in what is one of the most gruelling races in the world, and with sterling efforts from Cooper Webster, Beau Albert and Yannick Lapchin, we ended up classified in 7th place.

There were a number of dramas along the way as is often the case in these long races, however we are proud to have contested this race in what is our first end of race classification of note, after bowing out early in 2019. Plenty learned, and we look forward to racing on next time out!

Congratulations to Team Redline on the race win.