RCI World Tour 2021 - Round 4: 8-Hours of Monza - Race Programme

The Invitational Split for the World Tour is divided into two classes, Pro & Silver. The Pro Class is primarily filled
with some of the best drivers in ACC. Esports names like Elvin Smith, Darren King, James Parker, Chris Hoeke, Mike
Nobel and many more make up the 23 Pro Class Teams. Without further ado, let’s meet the World Tour Pro Class!
The Orion Race Team (#126 Bentley) has been competing
in RCI Endurance Races since our first Endurance Race
in August 2020, the 6-Hours of Barcelona, and are one
of only a handful of Teams to have entered every single
RCI Endurance Race to date. They’re statistically the most
sucessful Team in RCI history with 4 podiums & 1 win
from 6 RCI Endurance Races. They also won the RCI
Endurance Championship last year with 5 wins in 8 Races.
Their entry features the familiar Italian duo of Matthias
Egger & Fulvio Barozzini, they’ll be joined by Romano
Berinic & Giuseppe Montalbano in an attempt to keep
their run of success going throughout the World Tour.
They’ll face stiff competition from another one of RCI’s
most succesful Teams, FFS Racing (#123 Lexus). The FFS
Racing outfit, widely known for the Esports duo of Mike
Nobel & Andre Franke will be taking to the grid alongside
Gergo Panker & Jarkko Torvinen.
FFS Racing have won 3 of the 4 RCI Endurance Races they
have competed in with Mike Nobel wrapping up 2020 as
the RCI Porsche Cup Season 2 Champion just days after
he and Andre Franke had taken a win in the 9-Hours of
Imola hosted in partnership with Jardier.
Speaking of Jardier (Jaroslav Honzik), he’ll be racing
within the Jardier Community Team (#39 Ferrari) headed
by Valentin Barrier & Krzysztof Maczkowski. Jardier has
finished on the podium in only 1 of his 5 RCI Endurance
Race appearances but has still managed an impressive
collection of wins amongst RCI’s regular Championships.
Speaking of wins in regular Championships, the CDA/
NOP (#899 Bentley) Team sees the Coach Dave Academy
Expert James Parker team up with the Nearly on Pace
duo of Mikael Sundstrom & Alexander Guglia. And if that
wasn’t enough, everyones favourite Esports driver for hire,
Joe McAuley, will also be joining them to create one of
the most exciting driver line-ups in the Championship.
James Parker won the 3-Hours of Nurburgring in the GT4
Class and finished runner-up in the 12-Hours of Bathurst
alongside Samir Ibraimi. Joe McAuley meanwhile, is yet to
finish on the podium in an RCI Endurance Race.
On the topic of podiums, Racing Line Motorsport are
quickly establishing themselves within RCI’s Endurance
Races with back-to back podiums in the 3-Hours of Imola
& the 9-Hours of Imola, the former being a dominant win.
Building on the form they picked up towards the end of
last year, Racing Line Motorsport have submitted 2
entries for the World Tour! The first is the Racing Line
Motorsport #191 Team (#191 Ferrari) of Marek Schinz,
Kevin Siclari & Samuel Ratz. The Racing Line Motorsport
#194 is in the hands of the Akos Gyetvan, Marco Macri,
Matteo Catozzi & Bence Matyasi.
Whilst plenty of Teams in the World Tour are hoping to
build on momentum gathered towards the end of last
year, others are hoping to put their demons to bed with
a positive start to 2021. This could be no further from the
truth for the PCDC Motorsports Team.
The PCDC Motorsports (#12 McLaren) Team haven’t had
the best of luck in RCI’s Endurance Events. From crashing
out of the 3-Hours of Spa to being turned around on the
first lap of the 9-Hours of Imola, they’ve had their fair
share of bad luck & driver errors. But the PCDC squad of
Marcus Lawrence, Vincent Erbrich, Till Vornam & Thomas
Arensman will be hoping to put that behind them.
Another Team hoping to turn their fortunes around is the
PiNK Performance Team (#25 Audi). If the name doesn’t
sound familiar to you, that’s not too surprsing, the Team
used to go by the name Mucke Motorsport but have
rebranded themselves for 2021 but still carry the same
goal as before, race to win, no more, no less.
Their Team only attended 2 of RCI’s 6 Endurance Races
last year, the 3-Hours of Nurburgring & the 3-Hours of
Imola, and as such only have 1 Top 10 finish to show for.
The Team is still headed by Wolff Mattuschka, Phil Vitt &
Mitja Bonca, but this time they’re joined by Daniel Ferrier.
Whilst a significant portion of the grid are Teams that
have established themselves within RCI via our regular
Championships & Events or via our Endurance Races,
this isn’t the case for every Team participating within the
World Tour. Some of them have only competed in 1 RCI
Event entirely, which means they must crazy fast to earn a
spot in the Pro Class already, right?
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