THE MALTA NATIONAL GT3 ESPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP 2022

November 27, 2022

For the second year in a row WPR together with the Malta Motorsport Federation are organizing the Malta National GT3 Esports Championship 2022 Fuelled by Enemed.

This year different to the previous year the championship will be held on Assetto Corsa Competizione. This is the new platform adopted by FIA to host their sim racing events. Since that announcement we worked hard and acquired the ACC license by which all drivers taking part in the National Championship will be competing on the said platform. The ACC platform will also be available at our facility as from this week. This is definitely a big step forward from the previous platform FIA used and also a great achievement for us to have such platform now available at our facility.

The winner of the championship will represent Malta in the FIA Motorsport Games in France this October.

Eligible Drivers

The National Championship is eligible to locals or others who have a residential permit age 16 and over.

Qualifiers overview

Qualifiers will be held from 2nd July until 13th July. Booking can be made by visiting our booking system with a choice of 30 minutes or 1 hour session. There are no limits to the number of sessions to qualify.

You do not need to own Assetto Corsa Competizione or purchase any DLCs.

The track and car selected for the qualifiers phase will be Donington and the McLaren 720s with a provided setup for everyone. Setup changes cannot be made apart from the brake bias, pressure adjustments, traction and abs.

Prices for the qualifiers are as follows:

30 minutes – €10
60 minutes – €15

The top 10 that qualify will compete in a 6 rounds championship.

Championship Overview

The championship consist of 6 rounds with 2 races of 20 minutes sprint and a 60 minutes race with a mandatory tyre change in the final round.

The duration of each round is 2.5 hours and scheduled as follows:

Starting at 19:00 setting up the simulators for each driver followed by driver’s briefing by the race director.

60 minutes practice session
15 minutes qualifying
15 minutes break
20 minutes race
15 minutes break
20 minutes race
Trophy presentation and interviews

The price for each round is discounted to €35 per driver.

As per last year the qualified drivers will be wearing the championship clothing with a free space to put a sponsor of your choice as long as it doesn’t clash with one of our sponsors of the championship. This will help also to get support for the payment of the championship same as the real world of Motorsport.

Championship Schedule

Round 1 – Watkins Glen – 22nd July
Round 2 – Nurburgring – 29th July
Round 3 – SPA – 12th August
Round 4 – Brands Hatch – 2nd September
Round 5 – Paul Ricard – 9th September
Round 6 – Mount Panorama – 14th September

Same as last year the championship will be monitored by our licensed race director and stewards and broadcasted live with commentary on TVM Sport, Motorsport.tv, ESTV, WPR, MMF, Enemed and Motorsport Malta Facebook pages and YouTube.

At the end of the championship all the drivers will be competing together at the La Reve karting track in Hal Far thanks to GP Racing Karts Malta.

This championship could not be hosted without the support of the Malta Motorsport Federation, Enemed, England Insurance, Gaming Malta, AMD, HyperX, GT Omega Racing, Datavideo and GP Racing Karts

If you have any questions you can reach us through the following:

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Email us through the contact form
WhatsApp: 79682222
WPR Reception: 21800424
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THE MALTA NATIONAL GT3 ESPORTS CHAMPIONSHIP 2022

Eligible Drivers

Qualifiers overview

Championship Overview

Championship Schedule

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