12/07/25 – Race report from Spa 24h

Car :

Mclaren 720 GT3

Drivers :

Robin Katzlberger, Ben Rowley, Tim Brown, Christian Wills, Paul Kitchener, Beth Stibbles

Qualifying:

Robin ran the qualifying session and managed to set the fastest time of 2:17.10 which gave the team its first pole position in gt3. A fantastic achievement which showed the setup had good pace coupled with Robins ability to extract the available performanance

Race:

Robin led the field off from the front and held the lead until lap 5 when Zuper Zaddy Racing took over for 2 laps before Robin managed to return to the front again and led to the end of his stint at lap 24.

Ben took over the car for his 1st Iracing endurance event and settled into his rhythm and the car moved between 4th and 2nd until the end of his stint. Then Robin and Ben alternated their stints keeping it again between 4th and 2nd and in contention. The car was handed over to Tim to start the evening session on lap 95. After an off at Raidillon, the car dropped to 14th with a recovery drive starting. At the end of the stint the car was 12th with Ben returning with Tim following him, the car was rising back up the order to 8th until a car spun at Paul Frere and sent Tim into the wall with another 10 minutes damage in the pits sending the car back to position 31. After Bens final stint the car returned to the top 30 with Tim taking over to do a double and the car climbing backup to 22nd after he finished and handed over to Beth for the overnight team to take it forward. After the next 2 stints when Beth handing over the car to Paul, it stayed in 22. After Christians 1st stint the car moved back into the top 20 despite a touch and a semi spin in Les Combes. At the end of Pauls next stint the car was now up to 17th and handed back over to Beth. At the start of her stint, the car took damage from behind at the bus stop as a car failed to brake for the corner and remaining in 17th with damage until the next stop with repairs for 4 minutes of damage. After Beths stint the car was still around the top 20 with the car remaining in 20th after Christians next stint with however another 4 minutes of damage.

Robin then started the final run into the daytime and served the 2nd drive through for exceeding our incident points, after this he then started setting laptimes in the 2:17’s to recover 2 lost positions. After Beths final stint the car was still running 20th.

However after 8 minutes more damage after an off at Les Combes Robin had plenty of work to do with the car now 26th which it remained their until the end of his stint. Christian was next up for his final stint and he completed it with the car in position 24.

Paul then returned to double stint the car to the flag. Going into the these stints the car was still 25th, however during both stints the car picked up positions and was running in 21st place. Going into the last 5 laps it was bottled up behind the 3rd position car and 22nd place was catching rapidly. At the line the difference was 0.2 seconds between 21st and 22nd and we crossed in 21st, A reasonable recovery coming from 31st to gain 10 places for BSK SimSports 1st 24 hour race.

07/06/25 – Race report from Le Mans 6 Hours

The final round of the 2nd 2025 Global Endurance Tour Season brought us to Circuit de la Sarthe in France for a 6hr race…

Following a successful showing at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 2 weeks prior, the team decided to get together on the 7th of June in order to tackle the last round of the Global Endurance Tour during iRacing’s second season in 2025. After the team got together for 2 practice sessions throughout the week in the lead up to the race, the stage was set for Paul, Tim and Beth to take to the track.

Beth, Tim and Paul during a practice session prior to race day

It was decided that Beth would take the wheel for Qualifying, and she repaid that faith by qualifying 3rd in the GT3 class. “Qualifying is always difficult at Le Mans” Beth said to team media representatives, “You really only get time for 1 proper lap, which means you need to push the limits on cold tyres, which is never a match you want to have to deal with”.

#19 BSK SimSport Mclaren 720s GT3 EVO during Qualifying

As the race began, the team started to fall back from the leaders, with the team beliving it to be due to teams around them having faster race pace than their qualifying let on. As the race progressed into darkness and the time ticked down to the 4 hour mark, the car was handed off to Tim to complete his 2 hours in the car while the team was in P7.

“Le Mans is in my top ten tracks to race on and I knew I would be there or thereabouts with the car and track being at one with each other.” Tim told the team post race. “Putting the hours and race Sims in definitely payed off as a Trio we struggled with different things the biggest being the Porsche curves and how best to keep it on the road there consistently.”

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“Taking the middle 2 hours of the event meant i got to see the transition from day to night this is when the race came alive and it became apparent cars ahead of us hadn’t done much if any of the night racing practice and we started to make our way forwards.”

Tim drove a phenomanal 2 stints, bringing the team into a pit cycle where we were alternating from P6 and P4 between the start and the end of the stint, breifly running as high as P2 at one point before handing the car over to Paul to complete the race, which at that point was on target to be our best team result.

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