As you guys might know the Daytona 24 Hours was on for iRacing this weekend just gone by and my Team i compete for; Altus Esports created history for Australian SimRacing. Whilst many Australian Teams had won the lower Split Races; no Australian Team or Driver had ever won the Broadcasted Top Split; the 'All Star' split where all the biggest Teams Run and spend Months preparing for.
Well... we DID IT! TWICE! Unbelievably my team managed to win the GTE Class from Pole with Fastest Lap in a Registration SOF of over 7.6k; the highest Talent field ever seen in the Daytona 24; and i was apart of the GT3 effort for Altus and we won from Pole and Fastest Laps too!! The GT3 Registration SOF was a little lower at 6.7k but holy crap it was an effort we are so damn proud of and it's insane to think i am apart of this slice of Australian SimRacing History! Equal-First Australian to win the Top Split Daytona 24; and apart of the First Team too. ABSOLUTELY Stoked!!
But it wasn't without it's fair share of Drama; our biggest lead all race was only 60 seconds and despite pushing flat out the last 4 hours; we would win after 24 Hours of Racing by JUST 5 SECONDS.
This is how we celebrated....
I ran the first 4 Hours; Hours 12 to 14 and then 16 to 18. But that first hour was so damn nervewracking leading the start of the race! Holy crap. A weekend i will never forget! Whilst this is by far my new proudest SimRacing achievement; RACEONOZ's GT6 Season 5 Div1B Title remains a solid Second!
Broadcast can be found here; i started the race for our team:
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