Over the course of the regular online season, it was the sibling Williams Chillblast team that had come out on top. It had taken one win and two podium finishes in the three races, with the Razer squad winning at the Nurburgring but scoring a DNF in the Monza round – where McLaren Veloce scored the victory. However with two final rounds – both at Silverstone – taking place in person and the worst round score dropped, it was effectively winner takes-all, and the Razer team came out firing.
Despite coming into the race with the maximum, 15kg success ballast from that Nurburgring win, Dutch racer Tinko van der Velde placed the team on pole position with a lap almost a quarter of a second ahead of its nearest rival. That was, perhaps unexpectedly, the Team Racing Point McLaren, driven by Amadeo Castorino, just one-hundredth of a second ahead of the McLaren Veloce car of George Boothby. The Williams Chillblast car could only place in fifth through Max Wojtyna.
Wojtyna slipped backwards off the start, losing a spot to Kevin Leaune in the SDL eSports McLaren, which allowed the front four to build a gap at the front – with van der Velde leading the way. With the slightly shorter, 45-minute sprint race format, drivers couldn’t afford to get held up, but Castorino was clearly a cork in the bottle in second as Boothby and Mikhail Statsenko (ITB Racing) couldn’t find a way past. That was music to van der Velde’s ears, as the Audi quickly escaped at the front.
Meanwhile, Wojtyna was going in the opposite direction, losing out a spot to Jeffrey Richie (Tomas Enge Sim Racing), before having to defend from Luciano Witwoet (Rocket Simsport). However, it did begin to come back the Williams’ driver’s way as the clock ticked down, as he re-took sixth from Richie. On the final lap though, while aiming to take back fifth, Wojtyna was adjudged to have caused a collision with Leaune through Chapel and had his race time garnished with a 15-second penalty after the race.
ADAC SimRacing Expo Professional Trophy R4 Results:
1 – Tinko van der Velde (Williams Razer) - Audi R8 GT3 - 24 laps
2 – Amedeo Castorino (Team Racing Point) - McLaren 720S GT3 - +9.101s
3 – George Boothby (McLaren Veloce) - McLaren 720S GT3 - +9.365s