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Norris goes down fighting against regular Supercars stars

Norris goes down fighting against regular Supercars stars

20-05-2020 12:23

GPblog.com

On Wednesday morning another three rounds in the highly professional All Stars Eseries of the Australian Supercars Championship were organized in iRacing. Lando Norris was also present of course and tried to repeat his success from a week earlier, when he won his first race.

That seemed to go in the right direction in the first race on the oval of Charlotte Motor Speedway. Norris was in a neck to neck race with Supercars champion Shane van Ginsbergen for the lead during the first few laps. The set-up of the cars made it a 'pack race', in which the cars stay very close together.

The McLaren driver, however, saw his chance of a second victory evaporate when he crashed towards the end. As a result, he also had to start the second race from the pit lane. He fought his way back to the top ten on the Daytona road course, making a podium finish possible in the third race. Unfortunately he also had to stop that battle when he retired from P6 with engine problems.

Van Ginsbergen had a dreamnight in the meantime from his home in New Zealand. The Kiwi doesn't even have his regular sim-setup there, but still managed to win all three races. This brings him to 56 points from championship leader Scott McLaughlin.