Season 2 of the BMW SIM GT Cup starts with victory for Finland’s KOVA – Countdown to BMW SIM LIVE in November is on.

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Munich. BMW Esports is shifting up a gear on the sim racing scene in the second half of the year. The sim community will do battle for prize money totalling over 135,000 US dollars in competitions on the iRacing, rFactor 2 and Assetto Corsa Competizione platforms in 2021. The grand finale, BMW SIM LIVE, will this year take place virtually over two days for the first time, on 20^th and 21^st November. Sunday’s BMW SIM GT Cup race on iRacing heralded the start of the intense stage of competition leading up to the highlight of the season. The sim racers were underway in the new BMW M4 GT3 for the first time, with victory going to the Finnish KOVA team. 

Season two of the BMW SIM GT Cup began with a commanding win for Tuomas Tähtelä and Pekka Tuomainen (both FIN). Tähtelä secured pole position in the virtual BMW M4 GT3, and the KOVA pairing never looked back in the two-hour race. They were followed over the finish line in second and third place by the Valkyrie Esports and Williams Esports teams. 

Tähtela/Tuomainen were not only rewarded with 1,200 US dollars each, but also qualified for the grand finale at BMW SIM LIVE 2021, where they will be competing for a prize purse of more than 67,000 US dollars in the BMW SIM GT Cup alone. 

Twelve drivers had already qualified in the first season of the BMW SIM GT Cup on iRacing, which took place between January and May. They included the two BMW SIM LIVE champions from 2019 and 2020, Mitchell deJong (USA) and Joshua Rogers (AUS), both of whom race for Coanda Simsport. 

This year’s BMW SIM LIVE event will take place on 20^th and 21^st November. While the BMW SIM LIVE studio will be in BMW Welt like last year, the competitors will compete in the final races on their simulators at home. As well as the deciding races in the BMW SIM GT Cup, the programme also features the finals in the BMW SIM M2 CS Racing Cup on rFactor 2 (total prize money of 10,500 Euros) and the BMW SIM Time Attack by Assetto Corsa Competizione (total prize money of 14,000 Euros).

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