FIAMGames – First song action kicks off at Vallelunga

Friday offered these contesting the GT Cup, Touring Automobile Cup, System 4 Cup, Digital Cup, Karting Slalom Cup and Drifting Cup an various to note (and in the latter’s case, qualify) for Saturday and Sunday’s medal races, which will in the close resolve the ASN topped FIA Motorsport Games champions this weekend.

GT CUP

The avenue to GT Cup glory started with a pair of free notice lessons that noticed France and Switzerland emerge because the early tempo-setters. The French-liveried Mercedes-AMG led the map in which in the morning run courtesy of Jim Pla, who beat the Physique of workers Switzerland Lamborghini pushed by Patric Niederhauser into 2nd jam. The Swiss ace then went fastest overall for the day with a 1m32.304s because the positions were reversed in FP2, suggesting that each and each countries are neatly-placed to compete for GT Cup gold.

Germany showed strongly with its Porsche, ending the morning session in third jam forward of taking fourth in the afternoon, while Physique of workers Russia’s Ferrari used to be fourth and fifth respectively. Thailand started slowly, ending FP1 in 16th insist, nonetheless made a large influence right thru the 2nd run by vaulting up the expose to P3.

TOURING CAR CUP

Mato Homola position the fastest time all the map in which thru Friday’s two 30-minute notice lessons after Luca Engstler topped FP1 this morning. The Slovak’s Hyundai lapped in 1m40.692s to dwell the day two tenths faster than WTCR essential particular person Tom Coronel (Physique of workers Netherlands).

Engstler’s morning benchmark remained neatly generous sufficient for third quickest overall, while Germany’s two-time TCR Asia champion used to be also one in every of handiest four drivers to put up a sub-1m41s lap. The quite lots of used to be Physique of workers Belgium’s Gilles Magnus who twice performed third.

Unlike the a entire lot of 5 categories, day after today’s opening Touring Automobile Cup run will maintain a straight away affect on this one year’s medal winners. Gold will seemingly be awarded to the motive force who scores the most risk of aspects all the map in which thru each and each races, the 2nd of which takes space on Sunday afternoon.

FORMULA 4 CUP

Andrea Rosso harnessed the vitality of home earnings to lead each and each System 4 Cup notice lessons.

KCMG’s sign-original, hybrid-powered 01 chassis supplied a recent project for even the most skilled of F4 drivers, so it used to be no surprise to see a local with recent Italian championship recordsdata of Vallelunga topping the events.

Rosso ended FP2 with a 0.2s earnings over fellow Italian F4 drivers Ido Cohen (Physique of workers Israel) and Laszlo Toth (Physique of workers Hungary) after topping the first session by better than four tenths.

Ask the likes of Luis Leeds (Australia), Reshad de Gerus (France), Niklas Kruetten (Germany) and Malthe Jakobsen (Denmark) to maintain also closed the hole in time for this weekend’s first run day after today.

DRIFTING CUP

Diogo Manuel Dias Correia topped Drifting Cup qualifying for Portugal to lead 16 countries into day after today’s deciding contest, while seven teams maintain been eradicated from the competition.

Utilizing a BMW M3 E92 decked out in his nation’s flag – no longer to mention an unmissable position of fluorescent green rims – Correia delivered a panoramic performance to rack up 89 aspects. He used to be awarded 32 for his line, 30 for attitude and 27 for kind.

The following positions were filled by Benediktas Čirba (Lithuania), Juha Pöytälaakso (Finland) and Ilia Fedorov (Russia), all of whom delivered glorious showings in tonight’s qualifying to realize to Saturday’s showdown.

There used to be disappointment for seven teams as they were eradicated from this one year’s FIA Motorsport Games. This neighborhood contains Romania, Sweden, France, Denmark, Slovakia and Malta. The High 16 contest will web underway day after today at 17.30, culminating in the gold medal being decided by a closing fight.

KARTING SLALOM CUP

Physique of workers Georgia led the map in which on this afternoon’s Karting Slalom Cup notice session, which noticed Elizaveta Bagramovi and Nika Kobosnidze put up a blended time of 1m52.333s.

This put them 2.634s trek of Latvia, whose duo of Emīlija Bertāne and younger brother Nikolass tackled the route in a blended 1m54.967s. The dwell-three used to be accomplished by Sara Sandra Kałuzińska and Krzysztof Gardziel of Physique of workers Poland.

The advent of heavy rain at Vallelunga intended that four countries – Denmark, Hungary, Germany and Serbia – were restricted to generous one run today. This quartet will seemingly be allowed to total their dispensed Friday notice day after today.

Saturday will come all the map in which thru an extra various for the fat self-discipline to note the slalom route forward of qualifying is run over two lessons. The medal positions will seemingly be decided on Sunday.

DIGITAL CUP

The Digital Cup competitors turned their first laps in arouse this afternoon right thru a notice session held on the Congress Centre towering above Vallelunga Circuit.

30 racers, divided into teams of 10, were every given an hour of song time to study the Crimson Bull X2019 prototype at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Australia’s Cody Nikola Latkovski position the fastest time of all – 1m29.569s – nonetheless used to be handiest 0.073s faster than newly-topped World’s Fastest Gamer James 1st earl baldwin of bewdley (United Kingdom) and an extra 0.003s up on Switzerland’s Fredy Eugster.

The following day begins with qualifying for the semi-finals, repechage run and Immense Final, which will resolve the first-ever Digital Cup gold, silver and bronze medallists.

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Streak from all six categories counting in direction of the inaugural FIA Motorsport Games will seemingly be streamed continue to exist the tournament’s online online page and Fb online page, as neatly as fia.com, this Saturday and Sunday.