Red Bull clean sweeps Round 2 of 2021 F1 ESports Series Pro Championship with three wins shared between its two drivers.
The 2021 F1 ESports Series Pro championship continued this week with three more races in Round 2, where Red Bull’s Frederick Rasmussen scored two, while his teammate Marcel Kiefer took one win against their names in a dominant show.
With $750,000 prize money at stake, the Round 2 was broadcasted live from, the Gfinity arena in London as the racers used the 2021 F1 game by Codemasters. The season continued with the races in Silverstone, Monza and Spa-Francorchamps.
Starting on pole in Race 1 at Silverstone, Rasmussen held onto to his lead pretty much until Mercedes’ Dani Moreno took it away from him. But it wasn’t for long as the Red Bull driver fought back to retake it and win the opener by 0.528s.
Aston Martin’s Lucas Blakeley continued his fine form in third, as Alpine’s Nicolas Longuet and McLaren’s Bari Boroumand rounded out the Top 5, where the likes of Ferrari and AlphaTauri also scored points by finishing in the Top 10.
The Monza event saw both Kiefer and Rasmussen in fine form by running 1-2 for most part until Mercedes’ Jarno Opmeer took second from the latter. It was further misery for him when Ferrari’s David Tonizza spun him around to drop him out of the podium contention.
While Moreno and Tonizza finished third and fourth, but separate penalties saw them drop down, which helped Blakeley to take another podium finish behind Opmeer. Alpine’s Fabrizio Donoso was fourth from AlphaTauri’s Sbeastien Job in the Top 5.
The likes of McLaren and Williams scored points in the Top 10, as the final event in Spa saw another masterclass from Rasmussen in wet conditions to dominate the proceedings. Opmeer was second after he cleared Kiefer on the final lap.
There was more misery for the Red Bull racer as he even lost to Tonizza who made it in the Top 3, leaving Kiefer only fourth from Longuet in the Top 5. The likes of Aston Martin, ALphaTauri and Alfa Romeo managed to score points in the Top 10.
Here’s all the F1 results plus standings:
Here’s Race 1 and Race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4SuoRWJJ9Y
Here’s Race 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILpBEhJ2RHk
Here’s how F1 ESports Round 1 panned out