December 2021 & January 2022

The series qualified the top 8 finishers in each of PCA Sim Racing’s classes. The 8 class winners will represent their Zone Group in the Championships.

Congratulations to the Winners!

Congratulations to the following drivers who will be representing their Zones in the upcoming 2021 Challenge Championship! Drivers with an asterisk signify they are podium winners of the Zone Group Challenge, and have raced their way into the Championship field.

The 2021 Zone Group Challenge Championship was the final rung of the inaugural Zone Group competition ladder that started in November 2020.

The 2022 Zone Group competitive series will start up in November 2021 and culminate with the next Zone Group Championship in February 2022. In the meantime, check with your Zone Group to learn what exciting summertime events they have planned for your area!

Congratulations to Zone 1, Our 2021 Winner!

Zone 1 bested all other PCA National Zones in the 2021 competition. See how all the Zones finished here.

Congratulations to the 2021 ZGCC Podiums!

Congratulations to all drivers from

PCA Zones & PCA Regions members competed within their designated Zone Group to crown winners. The winners then advance to the annual championship series.

2021 Zone Group Qualifying

2021 Zone Group Championship

2021 Zone Group Champions

By Chip Witt, Redwood Region PCA

On Friday, December 11th, the fifth and final race of the Wild West Zones Series 1 was held at Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (a.k.a. Imola).

All driver classes joined on-track together in a single 23-car grid comprised of Pro and Club drivers in the 911 RSR and Sport and Challenge drivers in the Ruf 12RT Track, creating some incredible multi-class action.

After the dust settled following the 40 minute, 24 lap slug-fest, Dave Schwartz came out with the overall and Pro class victories.

Brian Granger finished second overall and walked away with the Club class win.

Chris

By Jacob Shum, Carolinas Region PCA

Introduction

Zone Group 3 & 12 held their 5th race at Imola and it was an incident-filled event!

Qualifying

Qualifying started with a bang as the top three drivers qualified within 0.2 seconds of each other with Jacob Shum leading Rafael Amorim and Robert Rattray.

Heat Race

From the green flag, the 30-minute heat race found the top-3 fighting closely with each other until the round of pitstops where Jacob had a slow stop. Robert and Rafael fought tooth and nail to the end until they came up behind a backmarker.

At Rivazza, Robert successfully cleared the backmarker. Rafael tried to

By Chip Witt, Redwood Region PCA

The Wild West Zone Group (WWZ) held their 4th race of Series 1 at Silverstone this past week.

After a short one-week holiday hiatus, the Wild West Zones brought their battle to the historic Silverstone Grand Prix circuit for the fourth race in the five-race “fun series” on Friday night, December 4th.

Continuing the trend of adding unique, surprise challenges to the series, all classes were combined for a 22 car grid that mixed Porsche 911 RSR (Pro and Club) and Ruf RT 12 Track (Sport and Challenge) for a multi-class bonanza.

Traffic management and patience were keys

By Anker Berg-Sonne, Northeast Region PCA

The ZG1 Championship Begins

The first championship point race for the Zone 1 Wildcats was run Friday, December 5th, at Road America.

Road America is a fun, fast course with a couple of very tricky corners. Corner 3 requires a lot of braking and patience to hit the apex and track out. Failure puts you in the grass or a plodding exit speed leading on to the Moraine Sweep.

Corner 5 has a downhill approach and punishes late braking by putting you in the runout, as does corner six, where you end up in the grass and inevitably