After quite some time, it was finally racing weekend in Monza, with the 2026 edition of the 3 Hours of Monza, second round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Series season after the opening round in Paul Ricard back in April The race has been chaotic to say the least, with huge drama right from the start, with the big shunt at the Prima Variante eliminating some of the fastest drivers from quali, including the poleman Arjun Maini on his Ford Mustang GT3 Evo and the Paul Ricard winners and chamipionship leaders Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo of Mattia Drudi, Marco Sorensen and Nicki Thiim The race has been won by the number 66 Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II driven by Rocco Mazzola, Ariel Levi and Sebastian Øgaard, which led a chaotic race ended behind the safety car after a scary crash in turn 1 Enjoy the video and stay tuned for more!!! Event: GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Series Monza 2026 Where: 30-31/5/2026 When: Autodromo Nazionale Monza
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In my opinion they need to start handing out some race bans, otherwise the next step is bad injuries and fatal incidents...
Pure chaos.... crazy how much happened this time. Hopefully all drivers are okay!
ACC lobby, this race...
Wow! Turn 1 went a bit bad for some. That was wild!
Les nouvelles Corvette sont de très belles voitures... mais ça ne sont pas des Corvette. Moteur central-arrière, V8 "flat plane", ça ressemble plus a une interpretation d'une berlinette Ferrari par Chevrolet.
What a chaos this year, crazy...
I love the C8 😘⭐♥
Maybe these big grid endurance races should start after the first chicane, it's not only a online sim racing problem and it isn't the first time something like this happened. Also as we saw in the Bathurst 12h, GT3 crashes can cause injuries. I can imagine it'll only change, when a serious incident happens, but let's hope it won't happen.
The red merc in the first clip came back on the straight from the wrong side of the white line forcing everyone to move over to the left and boom. Unacceptable (yes you cannot see the merc from this angle)
Took the mustangs right out and then I stop watching them
Monza need to be more safe next year or for now like skip the first chicane
Missing the beginning of the first accident completely !
Just imagine traveling all that to Monza, only to be taken out by multiple incompetent, impatient drivers.
I did not know that the open lobby on i Racing was accidentally leaked into reality.
Monza needs a complete redesign of the straight leading up to the first chicane and the chicane needs a major overhaul too. This is just beyond ridiculous. Or at least in the meantime while they figure out what to do, move the initial start line to after T2, finish line can stay the same. They already do the same on Detroit street circuit, because starting into T1 is just an idiotic wreckfest. I really feel bad for the teams that qualified great and got taken out without doing anything wrong.