Recently arrived at Team Fordzilla, the Portuguese Nuno Pinto is already justifying his bet, leading the Rfactor2 GT Pro Series world.
Nuno Pinto provisionally leads the standings with three points more than the runner-up, taking the leader status to the third competition of the championship, played today at 7pm on the Silverstone circuit — follow all the action on Youtube.
This year the rules of the game changed — the drivers were not able to choose the car they wanted at the beginning of the competition — which meant that they arrived at the beginning of the season with no idea of what they would find.
According to Nuno Pinto, this uncertainty created a more competitive championship, with the driver stating: “we never thought it would be a championship as disputed as it has been until now (…) there is a very big fight between all the drivers in the championship”.
consistency is key
Despite the good results, Nuno Pinto prefers to maintain a somewhat measured posture, recalling: “we have fights from the beginning to the end of the race, we have accidents, touches, confusion”.As for the car (Bentley Continental GT), despite acknowledging that it is not the fastest, the Team Fordzilla driver recalls that “it is a car that can be pulled without getting unstuck and our consistency is taking us to the top of the field. championship".
How does the championship work?
Each race consists of three phases: a classification, which determines followed by two heats.
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The first race is called the “sprint”, and the second, longer one, is known as the “endurance race”. The starting order of the second race is determined by the inverted classification of the “sprint” race, ie, the winner of the first race starts from last place.