2026 Georgian Grand Prix

The 2026 Georgian Grand Prix was a Formula One Ice Boat Race hosted in Tbilisi on the 4th of October 2026, hosting the second round of the 2026 Formula One World Championship.

Background

The Georgian Grand Prix was the first fully completed Formula One certified track on the Nostra server, created under the Georgian capital Tbilisi and created by Hill24671 and Tendonkeys. The track has a deepslate brick theme with red and white edges and contains walls which hug the track allowing for multiple walltap opportunities.

Track Layout

The track is located underground and is a mix of packed and blue ice with the pitlane featured on the outside on the right of the main straight. The track enters instantly into turn one which is a short and direct acute turn into a short straight. Turn two wraps the track 135 degrees into a long blue-ice straight which is capped by a tight chicane at turns three and four which wrap with a micro-blockstop on the inside of turn four which leads into the second tight chicane of turns five and six, turn six being a 135 degree bend into a blue ice straight with this ending at turn seven which evens the track out again, leading into the hairpin of turn eight. This hairpin leads into the bend of turn nine which leads into the blue ice section on the run to turn ten which is a wall tap or blockstop hairpin which ends the blue ice section into the turn eleven right bend. This gives way to the turn twelve left corner which in turn ends into the turn thirteen hairpin blockstop after a long blue-ice straight. The hairpin ends the blue ice section with turn fourteen a bend to the right into a short straight which starts the final sector of a sharp right bend into a 135 degree right turn before the track finishes with a left and right at turns sixteen and seventeen onto the main straight with the pitlane located far from the racing line on the right hand side of the track.

Entrants

The Georgian Grand Prix saw the return of F1rret to his main seat at the Vertza Racing Team after sitting out the opening round to reserve driver and 2025 BMW main driver, HockeyMan_31 due to his computer dying. Two-time World Champion, GabeTM was replaced for a second round by French Renault reserve driver, Gbaguette, marking the Frenchman's second race in Formula One after scoring a fourteenth in his debut race in Zurich. EarthMC rookie StanTheMan also confirmed his withdrawal from the event on Friday due to being unable to access his computer in time for the Sunday race after finishing ninth in his first race. He was replaced by 2025-26 Indochina Reserve driver Memexcx who signed for the Al-Quack team as a reserve before the season start. Stan changed his driver nationality to Spanish from English alongside Seggy who adopted the Amazon flag in place of the United States.

Qualifying

Qualifying was held between 20:00 GMT on Friday the 2nd of October and queued before midnight on Sunday the 4th of October 2026. All drivers were permitted a timed lap using the SRWC timing system with each lap administered by an EMC FIA board member with Fedrer timing every lap. Additionally, drivers were allowed a second shot for qualifying in which their most recent time is used for their classification. All drivers bar Semicolon did a qualifying lap with six drivers given qualifying after midnight due to a lack of board members.

Qualifying Report

Qualifying commenced at 18:29 GMT on Saturday the 3rd of October with 10Piksel setting a 48.470 for the Genoa Ferrari team. This was quickly beaten by a second with Sepl setting a 47.390 for FordAudi and Tendonkeys going another second quicker at a 46.490 at a track he helped construct. Championship runner-up, Talvi, went to provisional pole position on their second attempt, despite messing up their lap and setting a 45.560. Reserve teammate, gbaguette, beat the Frenchwoman's time with a 45.270 in their second qualifying session to provisionally top the times. Vellange made a second qualifying appearance in their main seat with the Scuderia Sicilia team despite not contesting the Sunday race at Zurich in Round One. She set a 00:47.130 to go fourth quickest at the time.

A full risk lap by Faxeo scored the Brit a dominant provisional pole, his 44.210 over a second quicker than gbaguette in the Renault for his first qualifying session of the season having backstarted at the Zurich Grand Prix without a set time. The Dinoco Oil pairing of Seggy and Mkmango scored successive second positions with Mkmango's 44.850 beating S3ggy's 45.200 and demoted his Amazonian teammate to provisional third. Next to cross the line was Ameberyl for the Vertza Racing Team with the Scot setting a 45.280 on her first shot to go to fifth, having started the previous round in fourth. A surprisingly quick lap on Hill24671's second shot promoted him to third, ahead of Seggy, with a 45.010 at the track which he built; an effective home race for the Dutch driver.

Jeelow scored a wonder lap to end Faxeo's domination, a 44.150 putting him just 6 tenths ahead of the FordAudi driver for a second pole position of the 2026 season and a third in a row following his pole at the 2025-26 season finale in Patagonia. Ameberyl went for a second shot however fell back around 2 tenths to end her qualifying with a 45.460. Aksel was last of the Saturday qualifiers going 45.560 to slot in behind the Scot with qualifying extended by an hour to allow Fedrer to return to timing.

Fauxbethvv was first of the Sunday runners, going 56.980 at 00:17 GMT for her first qualifying of the season. Pwnings was next to run setting a 44.890 on her second shot to put her into provisional fourth with Kyle qualifying immediately after with a 47.680 to go into thirteenth. Memexcx, in substitution for StanTheMan, set a 50.990 to go 16th, followed by multi-time race winner FatihAr who went just one position ahead of the Al-Quack driver with a 47.820. F1rret was given qualifying later on the Sunday with a 44.560 placing him in third position behind Faxeo for his first qualifying session of the season.

Qualifying Classification

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying Time	Gap
1	32	32Jeelow	Acceleron Formula One Team	00:44.15	-0.00
2	56	56Faxeo	Ford-Audi Formula One	00:44.21	+0.06
3	2	F1rret	Vertza Racing Team	00:44.56	+0.41
4	17	MkMango	Dinoco Oil	00:44.85	+0.60
5	3	pwnings	Murweh GP	00:44.89	+0.64
6	24	Hill24671	Freddo Formula One	00:45.01	+0.76
7	69	File:Amazon.png S3ggy	Dinoco Oil	00:45.20	+1.05
8	105	gbaguette	Renault Racing	00:45.27	+1.12
9	18	ameberyl	Vertza Racing Team	00:45.46	+1.31
10	67	AkselV	Murweh GP	00:45.56	+1.41
11	8	Talvi	Renault Racing	00:45.65	+1.50
12	26	Tendonkeys	Freddo Formula One	00:46.49	+2.34
13	6	Vellange	Scuderia Sicilia	00:47.13	+2.98
14	33	Sepl3333	FordAudi Formula One	00:47.39	+3.24
15	87	kyle123456788	ETH Al Quack	00:47.68	+3.53
16	41	FatihAr	Scuderia Genoa Ferrari	00:47.82	+3.67
17	10	10Piksel	Scuderia Genoa Ferrari	00:48.47	+4.32
18	108	Memexcx	Eth Al Quack	00:50.99	+6.84
19	7	Fauxbethvv	Scuderia Sicilia	00:56.98	+12.74
N/C	12	Semicolon_	Acceleron Formula One Team	N/A	N/A