van Loozenoord Becomes First Repeat Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship Winner at Monza

October 8th, 2021 by

R8G Esports’ Maarten van Loozenoord scored his second Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship win in four weeks on Thursday, breaking the draft with serpentine driving in the final lap to hold on for the victory at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. The first repeat winner of the season hung on as five drivers fought in the lead pack for three podium spots over the closing stages of the 43-lap race.

After a disappointing finish last week despite starting on the pole, van Loozenoord dropped to fourth in the standings, with Interlagos winner Peter Berryman of Apex Racing Team taking over the top spot. Berryman would back that up with the pole from Monza and take an early lead as the field attempted to sort itself out, with a few unlucky drivers in the midpack finding themselves in the gravel or with terminal early damage.

As the race continued, the lead pack would whittle down from about a third of the grid to van Loozenoord versus the four Apex drivers, whether through additional incidents or less effective pit strategy. For van Loozenoord, the right strategic would be the difference between winning and losing the race against a quartet of teammates; he’d opt to pit later than Berryman, Michele Costantini, Yohann Harth, and Ben Fuller, and would initially cycle out in front of them.

But with Berryman and Harth each putting on pressure, the former would make a pass with four laps to go. He’d hold the lead going into the final lap, where van Loozenoord would perfectly time his run while breaking with the draft and recover the top spot. With slightly fresher tires than the rest of the pack, he’d hang on across the finish line, as the entire top five crossed the stripe within a second of one another.

Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship results from Autodromo Nazionale Monza were as follows:

Fin.

St.

No.

Driver

Laps

Interval

Led

Best

Pts.
1 3 69 Maarten van Loozenoord 43 20 1:20.771 25
2 1 50 Peter Berryman 43 -0.292 12 1:20.896 21
3 5 90 Yohann Harth 43 -0.510 0 1:20.565 18
4 2 66 Michele Costantini 43 -0.700 11 1:20.496 15
5 4 55 Ben Fuller 43 -0.879 0 1:20.297 12
6 11 28 Sam Kuitert 43 -6.878 0 1:20.435 10
7 8 9 Tamas Simon 43 -9.115 0 1:21.020 9
8 17 8 David Toth 43 -29.707 0 1:21.027 8
9 14 6 Jarl Teien 43 -29.766 0 1:21.044 7
10 18 86 James J Pinsker 43 -30.479 0 1:21.117 6
11 19 23 Marcos Núñez 43 -37.429 0 1:21.429 5
12 26 7 Gio Cortese 43 -40.130 0 1:21.148 4
13 10 11 Przemyslaw Marek Lemanek 43 -44.432 0 1:19.865 4
14 25 2 Florian Lebigre 43 -49.765 0 1:20.894 2
15 7 98 Matteo Ugolotti 43 -1:03.090 0 1:20.748 1
16 23 32 Jorge Marquinez 43 -1:05.637 0 1:22.148 0
17 21 21 Alejandro del Campo 43 -1:12.313 0 1:21.668 0
18 24 77 Cédric BYLL 42 -1 L 0 1:22.645 0
19 22 5 Omar Baha 41 -2 L 0 1:22.209 0
20 12 9 Andreas J Henkel 39 -4 L 0 1:23.494 0
21 15 43 Brian Lockwood 28 -15 L 0 1:20.074 0
22 9 12 Marcus Jensen 22 -21 L 0 1:20.654 0
23 6 46 Valentin Mandernach 17 -26 L 0 1:20.960 0
24 20 16 Peter Zuba 10 -33 L 0 1:21.786 0
25 16 25 José I. Soria 1 -42 L 0 0
26 13 94 Kane Halliburton 1 -42 L 0 0

 

Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship points through four rounds are as follows:

  1. Peter Berryman, 78
  2. Yohann Harth, 75
  3. Maarten van Loozenoord, 65
  4. Michele Costantini, 62
  5. Ben Fuller, 46
  6. Tamas Simon, 31
  7. Valentin Mandernach, 30
  8. Sam Kuitert, 30
  9. David Toth, 28
  10. Jarl Teien, 22

The Force Dynamics Dallara iRacing Grand Prix Championship season continues next Thursday at Silverstone Circuit. Coverage begins at 3PM ET/19:00 GMT on iRacing.com/live and across iRacing social media channels. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iRacing.com.

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