Team Redline’s Max Verstappen and Enzo Bonito dominated the top split of the 2021 iRacing Bathurst 12HR on Saturday, thoroughly beating more than 50 of iRacing’s top endurance racing teams in the once-around-the-clock battle of GT3 cars at Mount Panorama Circuit. The duo completed 344 laps and led all but 12 of them, finishing as the only car on the lead lap in the highest split of the weekend.
Fellow Team Redline drivers Jeffrey Rietveld and Aleksi Uusi-Jaakkola finished second in the top split, while the Logitech G Altus Esports duo of Cooper Webster and Jordan Caruso completed the podium. Just six cars finished within a lap of the leader, with the charge of URANO eSports drivers Louis Nahser and Daniel Pasztor from 23rd on the grid to fifth at the finish marking the most positions gained among them. Of the 55 teams entered in the top split, 31 were still running at the finish.
The 2021 iRacing Bathurst 12HR featured an expansion from two race times to four to accommodate more drivers at more race times. When all was said and done, 56 total splits were created, each with at least 48 cars, and well over 6,500 drivers took part in the various splits.
Top split results from the 2021 iRacing Bathurst 12HR were as follows:
Fin. | St. | No. | Team | Car | Class | Laps | Interval | Led | Best |
| 1 | 1 | 33 | Team Redline Orange | Audi | GT3 | 344 | 332 | 2:01.555 | |
| 2 | 3 | 87 | Team Redline Ice Blue | Audi | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 2 | 2:02.136 |
| 3 | 6 | 43 | Logitech G Altus Esports | BMW | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 1 | 2:02.265 |
| 4 | 9 | 24 | Inertia SimRacing EURORC.COM | Audi | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 0 | 2:02.118 |
| 5 | 23 | 93 | URANO eSports | Audi | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 0 | 2:02.253 |
| 6 | 7 | 451 | Biela Racing Team EURONICS I | Audi | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 6 | 2:02.100 |
| 7 | 4 | 90 | BS COMPETITION | BMW | GT3 | 343 | -1 L | 0 | 2:02.203 |
| 8 | 12 | 71 | BMW Team Redline | BMW | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.122 |
| 9 | 27 | 91 | BS COMPETITION | BMW | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 1 | 2:02.605 |
| 10 | 14 | 116 | Puresims Esports #116 | Audi | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.641 |
| 11 | 31 | 11 | YAS HEAT | BMW | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.712 |
| 12 | 28 | 76 | SimRC Titan $Bathurst12h | Lamborghini | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.646 |
| 13 | 47 | 15 | Ronin SimSport | Lamborghini | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.516 |
| 14 | 24 | 453 | Biela Racing Team EURONICS III | Audi | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.698 |
| 15 | 10 | 89 | BMW Team BS COMPETITION | BMW | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.119 |
| 16 | 33 | 178 | Maniti Racing | Audi | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.832 |
| 17 | 17 | 6 | DV1 TRITON Racing | BMW | GT3 | 342 | -2 L | 0 | 2:02.668 |
| 18 | 37 | 16 | HM Engineering | BMW | GT3 | 341 | -3 L | 0 | 2:02.850 |
| 19 | 29 | 17 | R8G esports #Junior | BMW | GT3 | 341 | -3 L | 0 | 2:02.723 |
| 20 | 19 | 7 | Team BMW Bank | BMW | GT3 | 341 | -3 L | 0 | 2:02.653 |
| 21 | 40 | 13 | Vendaval Simracing Pink | Audi | GT3 | 340 | -4 L | 0 | 2:02.559 |
| 22 | 20 | 10 | R8G eSports #10 | Audi | GT3 | 340 | -4 L | 0 | 2:02.162 |
| 23 | 35 | 88 | VRS Coanda Simsport $88 | BMW | GT3 | 340 | -4 L | 0 | 2:02.666 |
| 24 | 52 | 12 | Race Clutch GT3 | Lamborghini | GT3 | 338 | -6 L | 0 | 2:03.168 |
| 25 | 32 | 5 | 5Star Motorsport Blue | Audi | GT3 | 337 | -7 L | 0 | 2:02.993 |
| 26 | 49 | 73 | RLR Abruzzi eSports Black | BMW | GT3 | 337 | -7 L | 0 | 2:03.373 |
| 27 | 48 | 75 | Divena e-sports | Audi | GT3 | 336 | -8 L | 0 | 2:02.831 |
| 28 | 15 | 707 | KOVA | BMW | GT3 | 334 | -10 L | 0 | 2:03.066 |
| 29 | 30 | 117 | Puresims Esports | Audi | GT3 | 333 | -11 L | 0 | 2:02.641 |
| 30 | 51 | 148 | Team Heusinkveld #148 | Ferrari | GT3 | 332 | -12 L | 0 | 2:03.244 |
| 31 | 44 | 83 | ASTRO Gaming Altus Esports | BMW | GT3 | 331 | -13 L | 0 | 2:03.597 |
| 32 | 46 | 4 | #R4RMotorsport | BMW | GT3 | 308 | -36 L | 0 | 2:03.152 |
| 33 | 8 | 2 | R8G Esports #8 | BMW | GT3 | 274 | -70 L | 0 | 2:02.384 |
| 34 | 38 | 66 | Cube Controls Altus Esports | BMW | GT3 | 183 | -161 L | 0 | 2:02.481 |
| 35 | 22 | 70 | IndiGO Team Redline | Audi | GT3 | 183 | -161 L | 0 | 2:02.678 |
| 36 | 26 | 3 | Team Fordzilla Kiwi | BMW | GT3 | 149 | -195 L | 0 | 2:02.752 |
| 37 | 42 | 454 | Biela Racing Team EURONICS IV | Audi | GT3 | 112 | -232 L | 0 | 2:03.538 |
| 38 | 13 | 504 | Team Fordzilla Pulpos | BMW | GT3 | 108 | -236 L | 0 | 2:02.580 |
| 39 | 2 | 9 | Williams Esports | Audi | GT3 | 107 | -237 L | 0 | 2:01.688 |
| 40 | 50 | 31 | Super Gojira Racing | Audi | GT3 | 93 | -251 L | 0 | 2:03.626 |
| 41 | 41 | 18 | Precision Racing eSports #111 | BMW | GT3 | 88 | -256 L | 0 | 2:02.401 |
| 42 | 16 | 4 | Triple A Esports $218 | BMW | GT3 | 88 | -256 L | 0 | 2:02.141 |
| 43 | 11 | 452 | Biela Racing Team EURONICS II | Audi | GT3 | 69 | -275 L | 0 | 2:02.316 |
| 44 | 43 | 176 | SimRC Carbon $Bathurst12h | BMW | GT3 | 22 | -322 L | 0 | 2:03.429 |
| 45 | 34 | 19 | AXA SimSport $148 | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 46 | 5 | 35 | MAHLE RACING TEAM | Audi | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 2 | |
| 47 | 54 | 311 | Comrade Gaming | Lamborghini | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 48 | 45 | 219 | Triple A Esports $219 | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 49 | 25 | 14 | ZENNITH ESPORTS STEEL STONE | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 50 | 18 | 1 | URANO eSports HUAWEI | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 51 | 21 | 55 | BMW Team GB | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 52 | 39 | 42 | RevolutionSimRacing Yellow | Ferrari | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 53 | 36 | 8 | URANO eSports HEINEKINGMEDIA | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 54 | 53 | 44 | Orion Race Team #044 | BMW | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 | |
| 55 | 55 | 27 | WILD ANIMALS .ORCA | Ferrari | GT3 | 0 | -344 L | 0 |
The 2021 iRacing special event schedule continues this weekend with the return of the BMW Sim GT Cup at Suzuka International Racing Circuit, while the iRacing Sebring 12HR on March 26-28 returns endurance racers to the cars of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and marks the next 12-hour event on the schedule. For more information on iRacing and for special offers, visit www.iracing.com.
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