On lap 16 Mughal and Chou dived into the pits handing the lead to Bukhantsov. Although Mughal had an additional 5 second success penalty to serve, he came in 5 seconds ahead of Chou and so was just able to exit the pits ahead. After a couple of laps Bukhantsov made his pitstop and re-joined the race in P5. By lap 20 Chou has closed the gap and was now only 0.7 seconds behind Mughal. Professional sim racing coach Suellio Almeida, in his first race in the GRC was now in the hunt as he re-joined the circuit in P3 after the pitstops, clearly getting familiar with driving a ‘real’ race car, his 1,700 hours of sim race coaching experience proving to be of huge value
On lap 28 Chou stopped in sector 2 with a technical gremlin, handing second place to Brazilian Almeida and with Bukhantsov now back up to P3 after getting past Johnny Khazzoum. At the finish, after 31 hectic laps of Dubai’s most technical circuit Mughal claimed victory 12 seconds ahead of the Almeida who was 11 seconds ahead of Bukhantsov.