Ellis Performance Muted at Sebring

It’s round 1. The very first race of the Logitech G Pro Invitational Series. Everyone is sitting on the grid gathering their thoughts and thinking about getting a good start. A clean get away and a nice run through turn 1. You want to settle into the race and start the series on the front foot with a good bag of points...

Imagine with 30 seconds to go before the green light, and you go to start your engine on the grid. NO SOUND! Disaster!

No time to figure out what has gone wrong, straight into panic stations and as the starting lights begin to illuminate you just have to try and gather yourself together and attempt to make the best of this situation.

That is exactly what happened to TTR pilot Leigh Ellis at Sebring.

Leigh’s experience immediately kicked in as he calmed himself to make a clean getaway, relying purely on muscle memory to make his way around the track. A few excursions off track and incidents during the race is really a remarkable outcome considering the hurdle he had to overcome.

"Imagine with 30 seconds to go before the green light, and you go to start your engine on the grid. NO SOUND! Disaster! "

We challenge anyone out there to turn their sound off on their sim, and see how well they can rely on their own muscle memory to not only complete a lap, but to complete an entire race in a field of Australia’s best supercar drivers and come home 33rd, only just over a minute and a half off the lead.

During the race, Leigh’s spotter could hear Leigh, but in order to communicate, his spotter relied on text correspondence with Leigh over messenger. So not only was Leigh in the thick of it, racing amongst other drivers and battling to keep his TTR machine on track, he was also checking his messenger regularly.