The iRacing.com Grand Touring Cup championship has finished its 3rd season of 2011 and nfinity eSport's South African, Kelvin Van Der Linde has lifted the MX5 Title in dominating Style ahead of Frenchman Renaud Jouanny from Team-Bam & Finland's Joni Hagner from TDRT to claim his first iRacing.com series title in his short career within the simulator.
Kelvin has shown remarkable talent for his young age to battle against established simulator drivers to take the title, which must come from the experiance gained from racing production cars in his native South Africa with the Ferado Racing Team along with his 12yr old Brother Sheldon. Kelvin is re-writing the history books in the 2011 Pro Tour Roadshow by becoming the youngest driver to gain pole position in his first ever Class A event at the age of 15yr old, then taking a double victory at Zwartkops Raceway to be crowned the youngest Overall Goldwagen Challenge Champion in 22 years of series just last week.
Sheldon Van Der Linde also finished amazingly within the top five of the MX5 championship in 5th place, Sheldon steadily worked his way through the season picking up points to keep him in contention, but it was not till the last races of the season when Sheldon decided to give it his all and become a threat to the championship contenders by starting to move up the standings rapidly.
Sheldon has amazing talent for his young age thanks to generations of racing Van Der Linde's and has claimed the GP Junior and Mini Max National Titles aswell as a double regional karting champion so we can definatly expect more from the little man as he matures in the future.
Just yesterday, young Sheldon had a dominating last round to claim yet another Karting Championship to his name. Sheldon took all the wins in the 3 heat battle apart from the last one which he was forced out from due to mechanical issues.
nfinity eSports Manager Simon Hill also had a good season to slide into the top ten of the MX5 championship, Simon had a fun and exciting season racing with the Van Der Linde brothers and he looks forward to chasing the youngsters in the coming seasons.
Simon and both the Van Der Linde brothers would like to thank nfinity eSports Racing and its sponsors Bigpond, Diabloskinz, TserverHQ and Jakacom for their continuing support.
