TTR stable mate, Josh Anderson also capitalised in the Cooldrive Mustang to make it a team 1-2, an awesome start to the Logitech G Pro Invitational series for TTR.

Filsell went on to scrape over the line in 3rd after looking the class of the field for much of the race, beating home Burton who coughed out of the final corner in the lead, dropping to 4th. A devastating moment as Burton had surely done enough to win the race to that point but the tight fuel strategy delivered a cruel blow as he just limped over the line ahead of Ethan Warren, another TTR machine making it 3 in the top 5.

The top 5 cars finished the race just 0.5 seconds apart after 44 laps of a sweltering Sebring circuit. With no safety cars to close the gaps, it’s an incredible margin for this many cars to finish within.

Further back in the top 10 a bit of door banging and spirited racing mixed some results up, but it was the usual class drivers of Hamstead, Gilliam who was the lead Pursuit driver, Vedaval Sim Racing’s Griffin Gardiner who continues his front running consistency, ERT’s Ethan Grigg Gault who crossed the line in 7th, but a post race penalty for contact that would spin Jordan Ross on the opening lap would lead to a 5 second penalty which classified him in 9th place. Jake Moloney would round out the top 10, making it 5 TTR cars in the top 10.

SSR covered from 11th to 15th on the results, with a mixed bag of what could have been. Filsell claimed a podium and Bourke looked most likely of the other SSR cars to feature deep inside the top 10 until late race redress dropped him to 11th.

Tom Freer produced a stunning Qualifying lap for 7th, as he begins to find consistent pace but the race wouldn’t be so kind. An early slow down and poor strategy call which put him in traffic ruined his chance of a top 10.

Further back in the field, mixed stories of woe, heartbreak and come back drives littered the results. Notably Jordan Ross who looked on track for a top 10 at the start of the race and Brodie Kosteki who set blistering laps in practice and ran an alternate setup. Brodie ran into equipment issues with a pedal malfunction.

WK&P driver, Blake Worboys and 9ine5ive SimSport rising star, Shawn McNamara did an exceptional job finishing inside the top 20, an encouraging result for both teams heading to round 2.

Luke Mitchinson finished in 20th, something RaceOnOz will be happy with and can build on. Luke is one to watch and proved he can get the job done.

For round 2, we move on to Winton Raceway on the 1st of June for what will be another dramatic night of racing.

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