At the wheel of his #64 SpeedHouse Chevrolet, Guillaume Deflandre scored the second win of his 2021 EuroNASCAR Esports Series season at virtual Watkins Glen. In a spectacular dash to the checkered flag, the Belgian blocked Philipp Bereswill on the main straight to gain another 40 points for the overall standings. Deflandre now leads the classification by 8 points ahead of Tobias Dauenhauer, who was a close third in the battle for the win.
Watkins Glen, the birthplace of American road course racing after World War II, hosted Round 3 of the second virtual EuroNASCAR championship on iRacing. With it’s 3.949 kilometer long “Inner Loop” the NASCAR track provides thrilling and close racing. The famous 90 degrees first turn, esses and bus stop chicane are the highlights of the beautiful race track located in the federal state of New York.
Deflandre grabbed the pole position in Qualifying and thus the first starting position in the first of two Heats determining the grid for the Main Event race. The Belgian won his 10-minute race ahead of DF1 Racing’s Simon Pilate and a charging Bereswill at the wheel of the #479 American Fan Fest Chevrolet Camaro. The Hockenheimring representative showed a promising pace at the iconic road course.
As in 2020, the Main Event Race started with some frantic action in turn one. Several drivers were involved in a crash in the midfield – the likes of Chris Liemann, Gordon Barnes and Daniel Adam – but the Big One did not occur. The front runners got into rhythm quickly and built up a solid margin on the rest of the field. Castro, who started from the front row, was involved in an incident and fell down the order, but came back to twelfth position in the end in a battered car.
Round 4 of the 2021 ENES championship will take place on March 23, 2021 at the legendary Hockenheimring. The track was released a few days ago on iRacing. The race at the home of the popular American Fan Fest will start at 8:30 pm CET and will be streamed live on EuroNASCAR’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and Twitch profile, as well as on Motorsport.tv.
ENES ROUND 3 RESULTS | POINTS STANDINGS
ENES ROUND 3 @ VIRTUAL WATKINS GLEN RESULTS
Pos | Start | Car # | Driver | Laps | Interval | Led |
1 | 1 | 64 | Guillaume Deflandre | 24 | 0 | 24 |
2 | 5 | 479 | Philipp Bereswill | 24 | -217 | 0 |
3 | 4 | 150 | Tobias Dauenhauer | 24 | -408 | 0 |
4 | 8 | 3 | Frederic Gabillon | 24 | -18.092 | 0 |
5 | 7 | 23 | Henri Tuomaala | 24 | -28.215 | 0 |
6 | 27 | 89 | Davide Dallara | 24 | -31.072 | 0 |
7 | 6 | 264 | Paul Jouffreau | 24 | -36.419 | 0 |
8 | 12 | 18 | Giorgio Maggi | 24 | -38.546 | 0 |
9 | 3 | 166 | Simon Pilate | 24 | -39.331 | 0 |
10 | 14 | 318 | Roy Hendriks | 24 | -40.902 | 0 |
11 | 9 | 46 | Santtu Vuoksenturja | 24 | -45.546 | 0 |
12 | 2 | 122 | Andre Castro | 24 | -48.037 | 0 |
13 | 26 | 108 | Alessandro Brigatti | 24 | -51.398 | 0 |
14 | 19 | 101 | Vladimiros Tziortzis | 24 | -54.066 | 0 |
15 | 16 | 388 | Luca Canneori | 24 | -58.723 | 0 |
16 | 34 | 88 | Massimiliano Lanza | 24 | -1:11.586 | 0 |
17 | 30 | 189 | Alberto Panebianco | 24 | -1:16.376 | 0 |
18 | 23 | 48 | Yevgen Sokolovskiy | 24 | -1:17.724 | 0 |
19 | 10 | 354 | Stefano Guastaveglie | 24 | -1:18.007 | 0 |
20 | 31 | 483 | Jakub Krafek | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
21 | 32 | 99 | Justin Kunz | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
22 | 18 | 346 | Rien Janssen | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
23 | 15 | 91 | Leevi Lintukanto | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
24 | 20 | 148 | Francesco Garisto | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
25 | 11 | 199 | Alain Mosqueron | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
26 | 28 | 190 | Igor Romanov | 23 | -1 L | 0 |
27 | 17 | 307 | Patrick Hendriks | 22 | -2 L | 0 |
28 | 22 | 458 | André Wiegold | 22 | -2 L | 0 |
29 | 29 | 322 | Maximilian Heilek | 22 | -2 L | 0 |
30 | 21 | 480 | Daniel Adam | 16 | -8 L | 0 |
31 | 24 | 191 | Naveh Talor | 5 | -19 L | 0 |
32 | 25 | 348 | Chris Liemann | 4 | -20 L | 0 |
33 | 13 | 246 | Gordon Barnes | 2 | -22 L | 0 |