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We're back at the Barn next Wednesday for the second round of the WHO/digital GT Championship 2024. GT team endurance racing is an exciting part of our digital racing calendar and a big step-up from the Nascar & Legends nights in terms of speed, tactics and software simulations. It is important you have completed at least one Nascar & Legends event to qualify as a GT driver.

   

We’ll be racing on one of Mike’s classic WHO digital layouts, first used in February 2018. If you can help us build the track, we’ll be at the Barn from 4.30pm.

Our GT Championship comprises four events - three Wednesday evenings and a full-day Saturday in June. The six Gold-rated drivers - Alex, Mike, Ryan, Andy, Oliver & Jeremy - captain the Pro-Am teams and adopt a deputy (or two) to help prepare and run the cars. All other drivers are allocated at each event, with every team requiring at least one Bronze-rated driver...

   

The evenings start with half an hour of practice, followed by a 2-minute Super-Pole qualifying session and then a two-hour race featuring fuel, tyre and weather simulations. Driver change windows open every 20 minutes and last for 2 minutes - the driver change must take place in the pits. The 500 lap  race should last two hours and so has six stints - three-driver teams must race two stints each, four or five-driver teams must have at least three stints driven by Bronze-rated drivers. No driver may complete more than two stints in total.

   

Each team is responsible for a designated marshalling post on the circuit during qualifying and the race. Penalties may be awarded for desertion of the post. Rear wings must be fitted at all times. If a wing falls off, the team has five laps to repair or fix a new one via a pit stop, otherwise penalties may be awarded. Race Control may also penalise persistently poor driving standards.

From this race, success penalties also apply. The first, second and third place teams from the previous race have 60, 40 and 20 seconds added to their pit stops. So that's about a 5 lap penalty for Gearzilla Racing - which might be significant at the end of the 2 hours.

As always, we ask that all racers aged 13 or younger bring a responsible adult with them. Race fees are £3 for adults, £2 for under-16s. We now have cashless payment options.