Imola – PCA Sim Racing

WWZ Series 1 Race 5 at Imola

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

ZG 3 & 12 at Imola

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