The Championship Test Season is now underway. The 7 round FIA GT Nations Cup opened with a Group 4 race on the Driving Park Yamagiwa, and ‘L-Shooter_RB26’ of Japan scored the top points in this first race. The same driver also continued to keep a position in the top ranks in the second and following races, steadily racking up the points for the series.

It was then ‘derolin30’ of Japan who then stood up against L-Shooter_RB26’s ultimate victory. derolin30 gained 1275 points in the first round, then skipped rounds 2 and 3. In the following round 4 race on Lake Maggiore II, derolin30 scored 861 points, then 1222 points in the following round 5 on the Brands Hatch Indy track. This brought derolin30 up into the top group of the point rankings.

On the 6th round held on Mount Panorama, L-Shooter_RB26 came one step closer to checkmate with 1190 points. However L-Shooter_RB26 was overtaken in points by derolin30 scoring 1371 points in this round.

The final Round 7 was on the Tokyo Expressway East Route / Inner loop, a one make race with the GT by Citroën. derolin30 entered in the first race out of the 5 time slots, and while pushed out off the track at corner 1 immediately after starting and dropping to 3rd place, he retook 1st again mid race at the S curve. However, misfortune struck derolin30 again where he was involved in an incident with other cars, dropping his position to 9th. Regaining position gradually, derolin30 rose again to 2nd place by the 6th lap. While coming close to the car in the lead, he was not able to overtake N64TheStig007 by the finish line, and completed the race in 2nd place with 1012 points.

Meanwhile L-Shooter_RB26 entered the race on the 4th time slot. Starting from pole position, L-Shooter_RB26 was pushed out on the end of a hairpin, dropping position to 6th. Steadily gaining on rivals, L-Shooter_RB26 rose back up to 3rd place on lap 5, and gradually started to gain on MonkeyMan_707 (New Zealand) in front. On the final lap, L-Shooter_RB26 finally overtook MonkeyMan_707 just before the finish line, for a very close and dramatic 2nd place position finish, gaining 1119 points. But the final totals for L-Shooter_RB26’s top 3 races was not quite enough to overturn the point totals, and the series concluded with derolin30 as the final overall winner of season 1.

Immediately after race start, L-Shooter_RB26 is pushed off the track, dropping his position in the race

3rd place in the series went to s-o16com (Japan), who actually gained 3514 points after only entering rounds 1, 2, and 3.

Point Ranking (Top10)