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PECCDK : Lasse Bak defends his lead

PECCDK : Lasse Bak defends his lead

by | Dec 30, 2021 | Porsche Esports Carrera Cup

Lasse Bak defends his leading position in the official danish sim racing championship, Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Denmark. Mikkel Gade takes most points in the third round of the championship.

Iconic Track

Once again it was time for an exciting race in the official danish sim racing championship, this time at the legendary Belgian Formula 1 track, Spa Francorchamps. The track is a classic and on top of the list for many drivers. Not surprising for TV 2’s motorsport commentator, Jens Winther: 

“Spa-Francorchamps is first and foremost a track that is known for offering action and drama. It has everything a race driver dreams of, fast straights, fast turns, but also technical sections and above all shockingly much height difference. It is a track that was created before the Second World War, where you did not have the same digging tools as today, and therefore it is almost just planted in the middle of the mountains, which has given the track that fantastic layout with steep climbs and not least, on of the most iconic turns in motorsport, Eau Rouge.”

In the live TV2 Studio, the host Simon Tordrup had this time presented the newly crowned European champion in the Ferrari Challenge, Michelle Gatting. 

Gatting explained : “Spa is one of those old school tracks where you do not have to turn the steering wheel very wrong to be punished. There is no room for mistakes and you need to hit your turns and curbs very precisely. It takes an incredible amount of training to get wise, but that is precisely why it is a place that racing drivers love to fight for” 

 

Race 1

After another close qualification, which especially benefited the drivers who were successful in taking advantage of slipstreams, it was for the first time this season last year’s champion, Mikkel Gade (FYRA SimSport), who snatched pole position ahead of teammates Martin Christensen (Team Flexlease.nu by FYRA SimSport), the championship leader Lasse Bak (Team Flexlease.nu by FYRA SimSport) and Kevin Nielsen (FYRA SimSport). The start was marked by intense drama with several cars in a collision, while the four FYRA cars with Mikkel Gade, Martin Christensen, Lasse Bak and Kevin Nielsen quickly ran off and put distance to the rest of the field. The four teammates drove close, and Gade and Christensen exchanged the lead several times in intense duels, where along the way Anton Güllich (Odense Gokart Hal) managed to close the gap to Nielsen in fourth place, but without attacking. Further down the field, there was a battle for the coveted 12th place, which gives a pole position in the second race – and here Bastian Buus (Porsche Denmark Esport) managed to conquer the position in the last lap, but was subsequently punished for hitting its competitor during the overhaul, which triggered a starting position from the pitlane. However, the race was won by Martin Christensen with Lasse Bak in second place, followed by Kevin Nielsen and Mikkel Gade.

Race 2

With the penalty to Bastian Buus, it was instead Casper Lund (P1 Esport) who took the start in the second race at Spa-Francorchamps, where already in the first round a number of positions were exchanged among the first 10 cars. Mikkel Gade was flying and advanced from a ninth – to a third place already in the second round – where four other cars had to go out after a series of crashes. The melee continued in the fourth inning, which triggered another major accident involving six cars and giving a penalty to Anton Güllich. Halfway through the race, Mikkel Gade took over the lead from Casper Lund, but could not escape Marcus Jensen (P1 Esport), who stayed close to Gade. Towards the end of the race, Marcus Jensen attacked and took the lead from Mikkel Gade in a nice maneuver – but only briefly until Gade took the lead again and crossed the finish line as the winner of the race. At the same time, Lasse Bak managed to get past Casper Lund, so he finished in third place. It did not go so well with the other top drivers from the first race, Martin Christensen and Anton Güllich, who had to settle for a 14th and 15th place, while Kevin Nielsen did not complete the race at all.

Lasse Bak still in the lead

With a second and a third place, Lasse Bak came solid from the third division of Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Denmark, where he still leads the championship position – but with a reduced distance to Mikkel Gade, who scored the most points at Spa-Francorchamps. Bastian Buus, however, had a disastrous day in Belgium, where a 12th place (and three points) in the first race and an incomplete second race sent him from a third to an eighth place in the overall standings. This, in turn, means that Martin Christensen moves up to third place and thus rounds off the preliminary podium. The next round of the Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Denmark will take place on the virtual version of the American Daytona International Speedway on Tuesday the 11th of January and will be broadcast live on TV 2 SPORT from 20.00.

ESR joins newly established network

ESR joins newly established network

by | Dec 10, 2021 | Uncategorized

E-sport has grown into a multi million industry worldwide, and Denmark is part of the leading powers. E-sport is a new industry in growth, where there is a need for a meeting point for coordination of e-sports business-oriented and political agendas.

The purpose of the Danish Chamber of Commerce’s network for esports companies is, among other things, to create an understanding and recognition of esports as a growth market that creates exports and jobs for Denmark.

As startup company (ESR), we feel both privileged and motivated to be part of the network and working together with some of the absolute front runners on the danish and international e-sport scene.

PECCDK -Imola Highlights

PECCDK -Imola Highlights

by | Dec 6, 2021 | iRacing

Action, drama and flying cars. The second round of the official Danish Championship, Porsche Esports Carrera Cup Denmark had it all. Check out the one-minut highlight video from the Race. 

PECCDK : Action and Drama on Imola

PECCDK : Action and Drama on Imola

by | Nov 30, 2021 | iRacing

New challengers came to the top of the championship position after an exciting round at Imola, where Lasse Bak maintained the lead, while especially Bastian Buus impressed with ice-cold driving.

Italian classic
Wild matches were pre-judged in the second Round of the Porsche Esport Carrera Cup Denmark. The season’s second round of the Danish championship in digital motorsport was in fact reserved for the Italian Track, Imola, which according to TV 2’s motorsport commentator Jens Winther is a course that separates the amateurs from the experts.

“Imola is from the fifties, where race tracks were still built with incredibly long long sides and good height differences. This means that the car in some places becomes very easy and challenging to steer, which gives some terrific races, “

In the live studio at TV 2 SPORT, the Host, Ulrik Jönsson, had invited the newly crowned champion of the American sports car championship, Mikkel Jensen.

“Imola is a bold but also very demanding course. You have to work completely differently with the car when it gets light over the hills. At the same time, you have to hit the curve just right, and preferably quite violently, to reach the fast lap times. It is an oldschool race track where you have to know your stuff to win, ” 

 

Race 1

After another extremely close qualification, where the first 19 cars were within just one second of each other’s lap times, it was Lasse Bak (FYRA SimSport), who for the second division in a row took pole position for the first race – this time followed by teammate Mikkel Gade and Anton Güllich (Odense Gokart Hall). However, Güllich already lost his position to Martin Christensen during the start of the race, and thus three teammates from FYRA SimSport were temporarily able to close out the top three places. However, they drove like each other’s worst rivals, and in the fifth lap it was bumper to bumper down the extremely fast long side of Imola – incidentally with an Anton Güllich in the heels of a fourth place. The four-leaf clover distanced itself from the rest of the field, but soon another FYRA SimSport driver, Kevin Nielsen, fought his way to the group. In the end, it was Lasse Bak, who for the second time this season could call himself a race winner, followed by Mikkel Gade and Martin Christensen, while Anton Güllich managed to defend his fourth place against Kevin Nielsen in fifth place.

Race 2

With the 12 best placed cars from the first heat placed in reverse order to the second heat, it was the teammates Asger Radsted and Mathias H. Jensen (VG Racing Apex Academy) who had to start P1 and P2 respectively with Frederik Kjeldgaard Jørgensen (Porsche Danmark Esport Racing ) and Casper Lund (P1 Esport) in the second row. Bastian Buus (Porsche Denmark Esport Racing) got off to a good start and put together with teammate Kjeldgaard an attack attempt on the VG Racing cars, but without success. While Kjeldgaard later smoked off the field and lost places, Buus continued the fight in third place, followed by a series of exciting and nerve-wracking laps, where Buus first took second place from Martin H. Jensen – and in the last laps conquered the lead from Asger Radsted in an impressive and icy overtaking in the Tamburello harassment. This triggered the season’s first victory for Bastian, while Asger Radsted and Mathias H. Jensen followed in second and third place with FYRA SimSport drivers Kevin Nielsen and Mikkel Gade in fourth and fifth place.

Lasse Bak still in the lead

The outcome of the second Round meant a change in the top of the championship position, where Lasse Bak still has the lead, while Casper Lund (P1 Esport) drops several positions and has to hand over second place to Mikkel Gade. Martin Christensen also had a bad day at Imola and has to give up his third place to Bastian Buus, while Christensen himself moves down to a continued fourth place. The next section of the Porsche Esport Carrera Cup Denmark will take place on the virtual version of the Belgian Spa-Francorchamps on Wednesday 22nd of December and will be broadcasted live on TV 2 SPORT from 5.30 pm.