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Added on the 15/11/2021 07:34:53 - 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.
Nurburgring. Lamborghini was unbeatable in the ADAC GT Masters at the Nürburgring: After Christian Engelhart (32 / Starnberg) and Mirko Bortolotti (29 / I) dominated in the Saturday race, the victory went to their team mates Rolf Ineichen (41 / CH) and Franck in the Sunday race Perera (35 / F). The second position went to Porsche duo Timo Bernhard (38 / Homburg / Saar) and Klaus Bachler (28 / A, both Küs Team75 Bernhard) for the second time this season, narrowly defeating championship leader Patric Niederhauser (27 / CH) and Kelvin van der Linde (23 / ZA, both HCB-Rutronik Racing) in the best Audi R8 LMS. "Wow, what a great weekend for our team", cheered premier winner Perera. "Yesterday the victory and the pole position of our team-mates and now we succeeded in the same - just great."
Mann-Filter HTP Motorsport’s Fabian Vettel along with the marshals escaped any injury after a big crash in Race 2 of ADAC GT Masters weekend at Red Bull Ring circuit.In Round 3 of the 2019 ADAC GT Masters season at Austria’s Red Bull Ring circuit in Spielberg, Vettel abode the #48 Mann-Filter HTP Motorsport’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 car, crashed out at the Remus (Turn 2) hairpin when the bonnet of his car came lose.While battling for 10th on the final lap of Race 2 with #21 Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing’s Lucas Auer – also driving a Mercedes-AMG GT3 car – the bonnet struck open, blinding his view as he slid across the gravel and hit the barrier near to the marshal post.
Most: In pleasant early summer weather, the Corvette C7 GT3-R pairing of Markus Pommer (28, GER) and Marvin Kirchhöfer (25, GER, both Callaway Competition) outclassed the rest of the field to win Sunday's ADAC GT Masters race and notch up a second victory of the season.
The title defense operation has begun: last year's champion Robert Renauer (34 / Manchehofen) and his new team-mate Thomas Preining (20 / A, both Precote Herberth Motorsport) lead the table after their victory in the Sunday race of the ADAC GT Masters opener in Oschersleben. The Porsche drivers won the second of 14 races of the season in front of the Audi drivers Ricardo Feller (18 / CH) and Dries Vanthoor (21 / B, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) and Rolf Ineichen (40 / CH) and Franck Perera (34th) / F, both Orange1 by GRT Grasser) in the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo. "Definitely a very good kick-off weekend," says Sieger Renauer. "The season could not have started much better for us."