Audi customers celebrate championship titles in Europe, France and Canada

Audi R8 LMS GT3

European title for Phoenix Racing: The longstanding Audi buyer crew Phoenix Racing has secured the European classification of the 24H Series with a podium end result in Barcelona. After two season victories in the primary half of the 12 months, second place in Spain was sufficient for the squad from the Eifel area to prevail in the GT3 European classification of the worldwide endurance racing collection. Audi Sport driver Pierre Kaffer and his privateer teammates Michael Doppelmayr, Elia Erhart and Swen Herberger completed second, one lap down, in the Audi R8 LMS after 24 hours of racing and 695 laps. The quantity 18 Audi had clinched total victories on the 12-hour races at Spa and Hockenheim in the spring with partially completely different driver line-ups and thus laid an necessary basis for title success early on.

Second and third place in the Eifel: Scherer Sport Team Phoenix achieved second and third place in the Nürburgring Endurance Series after the longest race distance of all the season. For the primary time, the organizers had selected a 12-hour race format, unfold over one six-hour race every on Saturday and Sunday. Kuba Giermaziak/Kim Luis Schramm missed victory in the Audi R8 LMS of Ernst Moser’s crew by solely 15 seconds. On Sunday Schramm rolled into the pit lane after 58 laps with an empty tank and misplaced additional time till his automobile began once more after refueling. Third place went to the sister automobile of Audi Sport driver Frank Stippler and Vincent Kolb. The driver duo completed on Sunday in the mixture results of each races 37 seconds behind their teammates in complete.

Success at dwelling race: Austrian privateer Max Hofer scored his greatest results of the season in the GT Open racing collection at his dwelling race. At the Red Bull Ring, he and teammate Dino Steiner managed third place total in the second race. This additionally meant Pro-Am class victory in a area of 23 opponents. The two Aust Motorsport drivers had fought a troublesome battle with the Polish Audi privateer crew Olimp Racing in the Audi R8 LMS. After each race automobiles touched and Marcin Jedlinski’s automobile subsequently spun out, the duel ended in the gravel entice for the rival on the twenty fourth of 34 laps.

Two podium outcomes on the finale: Petr Kačirek in the Audi R8 LMS managed a conciliatory finish to the season in the Eset Cup. The Czech privateer recorded his greatest outcomes of the 12 months on the finale at Brno. With positions two and three in the 2 sprints on the sixth race weekend, he secured fourth place in the standings in the sphere of ten GT3 contenders in the Eastern European race collection.

Audi RS 3 LMS (TCR)

Jerimy Daniel is champion in Canada: Jerimy Daniel has secured the championship title in Canada for the Audi RS 3 LMS gen II. The privateer driver has gained the TCR classification of the Sports Car Championship Canada offered by Michelin after 5 victories this season. At the finale at Mosport, he secured a 56-point benefit in the standings after two commanding total victories in which he even left his rivals in their GT4 sports activities automobiles behind for the primary time. Championship place two went to his teammate Jean-François Hevey, who additionally drove an Audi RS 3 LMS for TRC Motorsport and who had managed two wins this season. The subsequent three positions in the standings additionally went to Audi drivers: Ron Tomlinson completed the season in third place for TWOth Autosport. He was adopted by Justin di Benedetto from the Di Benedetto Racing crew and Richard Boake from Blanchet Motorsports, who every gained as soon as. Audi privateers prevailed in 9 of the ten races this 12 months, whereas a competitor from Hyundai gained as soon as. After Travis Hill’s title success final 12 months, Audi has to this point been unbeaten in this nonetheless younger championship. Overall, it was already the third consecutive title for Audi in Canada as a result of in 2020 Zachary Vanier had dominated the then Canadian Touring Car Championship in the RS 3 LMS.

Most profitable weekend in Sweden: The fifth TCR Scandinavia occasion was essentially the most profitable to this point for the eight Audi privateer drivers. For the primary time this season, the Audi RS 3 LMS remained unbeaten in all three sprints on one weekend. Andreas Bäckman from Lestrup Racing gained the primary two sprints with a commanding lead of greater than 4 seconds every, whereas Tobias Brink determined the third race in his favor. In the primary race, Bäckman overtook Hugo Nerman’s Audi on the third lap and ultimately gained forward of championship chief Robert Dahlgren in the Cupra. In the second race Bäckman managed a start-finish victory from first place forward of Hugo Nerman of Brink Motorsport. On a moist observe in the third race with a reversed grid for the primary eight automobiles, Tobias Brink overtook the automobile in entrance of him, Marius Solberg Hansen, as early as on the primary lap and secured Audi’s third race victory with a 1.4-second lead. Before the finale at the start of October, Andreas Bäckman as the very best Audi driver is 24 factors behind championship chief Robert Dahlgren.

Strong weekend in membership racing: Vedat Ali Dalokay was the very best Audi privateer on the fifth race weekend of the Coppa Italia Turismo. The Turkish driver from the Bitci Racing crew completed third in the primary dash at Vallelunga. Dalokay gained the second dash with a lead of 9.7 seconds forward of Gabriele Volpato in one other Audi in addition to his Bitci Racing teammate and compatriot Turgut Konukoglu, who additionally drove an RS 3 LMS.

Trophy in Spain: Team AC Motorsport returns from the Barcelona 24 Hours with a trophy. The Belgian squad clinched third place in the TCR class on the sixth spherical of the 24H Series. The cockpit of the Audi RS 3 LMS was shared by Stéphane Perrin, Mathieu Detry, Vincent Radermecker and Charles Dawson. They had initially completed second however obtained a 60-second penalty after the tip of the race.

Second and third place at Brno: Team Wimmer Werk Motorsport achieved two podium outcomes with the Audi RS 3 LMS on the Eset Cup finale. Austrian Peter Gross completed the primary dash on the Brno circuit in the Czech Republic because the runner-up in the TCX class and reached place three in the endurance race.

Best results of the season in Denmark: René Povlsen was delighted along with his first podium end result this 12 months on the sixth spherical of TCR Denmark. The Dane, who has been driving an Audi RS 3 LMS gen II of the Meteor Racing crew since this season, had began from pole place in the second race at Padborg and noticed the checkered flag in second place after 15 laps.

On the rostrum twice at Fuji: Masanobu Kato was once more the very best Audi driver in the TCR Japan. The Japanese from Audi Team Mars clinched third place in the RS 3 LMS in each sprints on the foot of Mount Fuji on the fifth race weekend.

Coming up subsequent week

16–17/09 Rudskogen (N), spherical 6, Racing NM 
15–18/09 Vallelunga (I), spherical 6, TCR Italy
16–18/09 Sandown (AUS), spherical 4, GT World Challenge Australia
16–18/09 Sandown (AUS), spherical 6, TCR Australia
16–18/09 Valencia (E), spherical 5, GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup
16–18/09 Shanghai (CN), spherical 3, TCR Asia
17–18/09 Valencia (E), spherical 5, GT2 European Series
17–18/09 Jerez (E), spherical 4, Campeonato de España Resistencia
17–18/09 Buenos Aires (RA), spherical 7, TCR South America
17–18/09 Sugo (J), spherical 6, Super GT
18/09 Nürburgring (D), spherical 5, Belcar Endurance Championship