Round 2, Race 1 results
1 - Zac Campbell (VRS) - 10 laps
2 - Cooper Webster (Red Bull) - +0.474s
3 - Diogo Pinto (Redline) - +1.243s
With twice the points on offer, the feature race didn’t wait around for the action to kick off as Alessandro Bico appeared to be helped off the circuit before he’d even turned for the first corner. That was a mere portent, as Job and Caruso came to blows at Adelaide just fractions of a second before two of the VRS cars – Bryn Collins and race one-winner Zac Campbell – collided. Replays showed Collins was helped into Campbell by Yoann Harth, who also ended up flipping Quentin Vialatte in the melee. Damage from the crash caused the retirement of three of the VRS cars, with Campbell, Bryn Collins, and Bobby Zalenski all heading to the pits, along with Bico and Vialatte.
At the front though it was Charlie Collins leading Tahtela, as the front two avoided all of the mayhem behind, with Job and Pinto in their tyre tracks. However, Collins soon began to drop the Finnish driver, pulling away by almost half a second a lap. With half distance completed, Job made his move on Tahtela at the hairpin to climb up into second. Pinto followed him through on the run up the Nurburgring section. Caruso almost made it three positions lost in two corners but couldn’t make the move stick – but he’d take the spot at the hairpin on the next lap.
Despite being free to chase the leader, Job couldn’t make any inroads – and it was Pinto behind that became the bigger concern. Sure enough on the final lap, Pinto sent his car up the inside of Job at the hairpin to take second, with Caruso nipping through into third at the same time. That would be how they’d finish, with Collins’ advantage stretching to 6.6 seconds as the two champions behind battled each other. Pinto though took the championship lead by just two points as the series heads to Long Beach for round three.
Round 2, Race 2 results
1 - Charlie Collins (VRS) - 20 laps
2 - Diogo Pinto (Redline) - +6.605s
3 - Jordan Caruso (Altus) - +7.082s