After the big season opener at Monza, the SHU crew travelled to the equally famous Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari at Imola, Italy for the second event in the GT Club championship. The first at Brno was a great way to get a feel for the cars, and further practice paid off at Imola. The two race sprint format with reverse grid on second race is proving to be a great crowd pleaser.  The way we are assigning weight penalties per event makes it so that more people can receive weight, depending on their score over the 2 races. This should increase the close racing that we all love. Saturday we take our GT’s to our first custom track, Birmingham GP. We’ll see how these cars deal with elevation changes and turning at the same time.

Twelve drivers went to Italy last weekend for the season opener at Monza. It was a fantastic race and a memorable experience.

The FBMW cars are seen as the entry level open wheeler by many, but that doesn’t mean they are easy to master. Some of our drivers are yet less experienced and have to learn the characteristics and how to make it all work for them. Especially coming from Touring Cars, this is a whole new world. Our younger drivers are to be commended for their persistence.

Even if you have a knack for racing, it takes time and effort to perfect it. That’s exactly what racing is. The constant act of perfecting. Never give up. That is how you learn and get better, and better, and then you become an alien. Area 51 is really just an underground race track.

The veteran drivers on our crew had some great battles and put down some seriously nice times. Qualifying times dropped below the 2 minute mark, almost into the 1:58s. In the end, everyone could say they had 30 minutes of good old sim racing fun!

Next up is Estoril!