Audi R8 LMS GT2
Second win of the season in Belgium: Team PK Carsport gained the third spherical of the Belcar Endurance Championship. Peter Guelinckx, Bert Longin and Stienes Longin shared the Belgian squad’s Audi R8 LMS GT2 on the Spa circuit. In a blended sports activities and touring automotive area, the three Belgians established a lead of 23.2 seconds over the course of fifty laps. After the opening victory in Zolder in May, it was already the second win of the season for Anthony Kumpen’s workforce in Belgian endurance racing. In addition, the most profitable workforce from the circle of Audi GT2 clients additionally leads the Pro-Am classification of the GT2 European Series at the season’s midway level.
Audi R8 LMS GT4
Success in German grassroots racing: Lars Ellmar-Kiehn gained his class in the Audi R8 LMS GT4 in each dash races on the fourth race weekend of the North German ADAC Börde Tourenwagen Cup at the Lausitzring. Together with Tobias Erdmann, he additionally managed total victory in the two-hour endurance race for Seyffarth Motorsport at the identical occasion.
Two second locations in China: Vincent Lin clinched two trophies at the season opener of the GT Super Sprint Challenge. On his debut in the cockpit of Absolute Racing’s Audi R8 LMS GT4 at the Ningbo circuit, the Chinese clinched second place in class in a area of 5 opponents.
Audi RS 3 LMS (TCR)
1-2 victory in the USA: In the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, the Audi buyer groups celebrated the first one-two of the season in an exhilarating seventh race of the season at Lime Rock Park. Chris Miller, who finally gained along with Mikey Taylor, was initially in third place when an opponent attacked his Audi RS 3 LMS. Miller fell again to the finish. After a fast pit cease by the Unitronic JDC-Miller MotorSports workforce, Mikey Taylor took over his teammate’s automotive and handed opponent after opponent in his race to catch up. Even in the closing phases of the two-hour race, the high 5 contenders have been inside one second of one another. Miller/Taylor’s Audi RS 3 LMS survived powerful maneuvers and contact by an opposing Hyundai unscathed and finally crossed the end line 1.1 seconds forward. Second place went to Preston Brown and Denis Dupont in an Audi of the Belgard & Techniseal Racing workforce.
Success in Canada: Richard Boake celebrated TCR victory in the Audi RS 3 LMS at the third occasion of the Sports Car Championship Canada. In the first race at Toronto, he had a bonus of 0.121 seconds over model colleague Jerimy Daniel after 40 minutes. Jean-François Hevey accomplished an Audi one-two-three. An accident involving a number of race automobiles led to the abandonment of the second race. The race organizers are initially evaluating all out there information, movies and studies earlier than publishing a outcome in the subsequent few days.
Class successes in Polish membership racing: Jakub Franek once more dominated his class at the third spherical of the Polish racing collection Wyścigowe Samochodowe Mistrzostwa Polski. On the Poznań circuit, the privateer gained each sprints and the endurance race in his Audi RS 3 LMS.
Best results of the season for Denis Babuin in Italy: On the fourth race weekend of the TCR Italy, Denis Babuin achieved his greatest results of the season to date. The Italian, who began from third place, completed the second dash in second place, simply 1.1 seconds behind the chief, and thus improved from eighth to fourth in the standings. Nevertheless, he was not completely happy: Babuin had been main the race confidently till the eleventh of 15 laps when he made a mistake. He stepped off the accelerator pedal when he thought the double waved yellow flag marked not solely a neighborhood hazard zone however the begin of a security automotive section. As a outcome, Hyundai drivers Niels Langeveld and Kevin Ceccon handed him. As Ceccon subsequently acquired a penalty, Babuin nonetheless moved as much as second place.
Coming up subsequent week
22–23/07 Knutstorp (S), spherical 3, TCR Scandinavia
22–24/07 Fuji (J), spherical 3, GT World Challenge Asia
22–24/07 Spa (B), spherical 4, GT2 European Series
22–24/07 Spa (B), spherical 4, GT4 France
22–24/07 Watkins Glen (USA), spherical 4, GT America
22–24/07 Watkins Glen (USA), spherical 4, GT4 America
23–24/07 Vallelunga (I), spherical 6, FIA WTCR
23–24/07 Grobnik (HR), spherical 4, Eset Cup
23–24/07 Grobnik (HR), spherical 4, TCR Eastern Europe
23–24/07 Spa (B), spherical 5, British GT
23–24/07 Sugo (J), spherical 3, TCR Japan
