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Added on the 08/04/2022 08:29:17 - Copyright : Auto Moto EN
Longtime Audi Sport customer, the Belgian Team WRT squad, enjoyed a successful season in the GT World Challenge Europe with Audi Sport drivers Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor. The young Belgians Weerts and Vanthoor secured their second Sprint Cup drivers’ title at Brands Hatch together with Team WRT from Baudour winning the teams’ title. One week later, the two Audi Sport drivers won the overall drivers’ title at the Nürburgring before the overall teams’ title was clinched by Team WRT at Valencia three weeks later.
After the pandemic forced a postponement of the IGTC final race from December 4, 2021, to February 5, 2022, Audi Sport customer racing concluded the 2021 season with another title success: in 2016, 2017 and 2018, Audi Sport was already the best manufacturer in the only global GT3 racing series, and now the company has left four other sports car brands behind by winning the title at Kyalami.
Stig Blomqvist, 1984 World Rally Champion, and Lucas di Grassi, 2017 Formula E Champion, swap cockpits in San Remo and test the cars that led them to success: the legendary Audi Sport quattro S1 and the Audi RS e-tron GT.
The Porsche GT Team finished round two of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) third and fourth in the GTE-Pro class. At the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, works drivers Kévin Estre from France and Neel Jani from Switzerland as well as Denmark’s Michael Christensen drove from pole position to the podium. At the flag, the No. 92 ca. 515 PS Porsche 911 RSR was only 20 seconds off clinching second place. Works drivers Richard Lietz from Austria, Gianmaria Bruni from Italy and Frédéric Makowiecki from France secured fourth place after 278 laps on the 4.684-kilometre Grand Prix circuit on the Algarve coast in Portugal. In the GTE-Am class, the customer squad Project 1 scored second place with drivers Egidio Perfetti (Norway), Riccardo Pera and Matteo Cairoli (both Italy).
The players of Real Madrid C.F. They changed the grass of the training field for the asphalt of the Jarama Circuit for a day to face a day of adrenaline and passion in the “Real Madrid e-tron GT experience”, where they could see the performance of the new Audi RS e-tron GT, the electric grand tourer that marks the beginning of a new era for the brand with the four rings.
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