Porsche: The best SimRacers showed a lot of action 🎥

Leonard Heidegger created a huge build-up of tension in the final race of the PRO category. As the only driver ever, the title contender in the fastest category, did not drive a valid Superpole lap and thus started at the end of the field. Surprisingly, the youngest driver Levin Nikitas led the field ahead of Rowan Eaton and Julian Ammann after the start.

The three leaders fought fair battles, while Heidegger fought his way from last place to the front through the field and had to take many risks. As a result, he was even given a 5-second penalty by the race organizers. In the photo finish he had to admit defeat to Yves Eigenmann who was in 4th place. Levin, Eaton and Ammann are the winners of the final race, but not the winners of the championship. By setting the fastest race lap, fifth-placed Leonard Heidegger was able to secure 3 more additional points.

Leonard Heidegger narrowly made it to 1st place
With a lot of suspense and a very tight distribution of points, Leonard Heidegger managed to win the championship of the PRO category after all with 81 points ahead of Julian Ammann (76 pts.) and Levin Nikitas (73 pts.)! In addition to a Porsche Drive voucher worth 3090 Swiss francs, Heidegger wins an Auto Sport Schweiz license course in Hockenheim as well as participation in the FIA Motorsport Games 2024 as a driver for Switzerland.

Tobias Schmidlin is champion in the AM category
Schmidlin, Vetsch and Pereira were the three on the first places, who proved themselves in the Superpole and were at the front of the starting grid. But already in the first lap everything was reshuffled after Vetsch caused a minor chaos and some other riders were involved in the incident.

Vetsch could not fight his way back to the top and finished the race in 8th place. This not only mixed up the final race, but also upset the overall standings. Thus the AM classification is led by Tobias Schmidlin with the maximum score of 94 points ahead of Nicola Mantegani (74 pts.) and Pedro Pereira (70 pts.).

Nadja Brülisauer champion with four start-finish victories
It was already clear after Superpole that Nadia Brülisauer would challenge Danica Brönnimann, the reigning champion to date, for the 2-time title of fastest lady in the final. Starting on pole and already in the first lap with a two-second lead over second-placed Bettina Buess, Brülisauer outclassed the field early on.

After contact between Brönnimann and Buess, Buess loses five positions and falls far behind. Vanessa Rüfenacht benefits from this, pulling away from the field with Brülisauer ahead of Brönnimann in the new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992 generation).

The race as well as the championship in the category Ladies is won by Nadia Brülisauer with the maximum score of 94 points ahead of Danica Brönnimann (82 points) and the surprising newcomer Vanessa Rüfenacht (72 points).

Michael Dänzer is the new champion in the cat. Ü45
The Superpole was clearly won by the ambitious Daniel Hablützel with a lead of almost half a second over Michel Dänzer. However, after an unsuccessful start he was caught off guard by Fabian Eggenberger and Dänzer. With a lot of patience and pace Dänzer made it back to the top in lap 3 and constantly extended his leading position. While close behind, Hablützel and Gilbert Denzer put up a tough fight and crossed the finish line in this order in the final.

The winner of the category Ü45 is Michel Dänzer with 90 points ahead of Daniel Hablützel (88 points) and Gilbert Denzer (73 points).
All results and finalists are listed here on the leaderboard:
here you can go to the Rankings.

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