Home Win For McLean at Philip Island

Avoiding a huge opening lap accident that involved 12 of the iRacing.com World Championship Series Road Racing field, and capitalising on a ‘power failure’ for Jesse Nieminen, Australia?s Luke McLean secured his first ever race victory in the globe’s most prestigious sim-racing series. Before the 35 car field had even taken to the grid for the 69 lap race, a strange air hung over the paddock, with the announcement that Team Redline’s drivers Greger Huttu, Luca Masier and Bastien Bartsch would not be making the grid due to ?injuries.? Maybe it was foresight, or maybe it was just luck, but the trio’s absence from Round Two of the championship meant they missed what will be remembered as one of the most explosive race starts of this (or any) season. Within [...]

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