Audi R8 LMS GT3
Another title win in Italy: Audi Sport Italia concluded the 2022 season with a championship success. Emilio Radaelli’s tradition-steeped firm, which was an Audi Sport buyer racing buyer from the very starting in 2009, received the newbie classification of the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo Sprint. After total championship successes in 2011, 2020 within the Sprint classification and 2021 in Sprint and Endurance, Audi Sport Italia raced for a category title for the primary time this yr. The two new signings Marco Butti and Simone Patrinicola dominated the Am class with 4 wins and two second locations on the primary three race weekends. At the finale in Mugello, the driving force pairing was promoted to the Pro-Am class. Marco Butti, solely 17 years previous, captured pole place for the ultimate dash in Tuscany. For 19 laps, the northern Italian led the sphere. In the top, Patrinicola crossed the end line in third place after the driving force change. But a 25-second penalty after the race for a collision with one other competitor threw the duo again to seventh place. As a end result, they remained the second-best Pro-Am squad. Overall, Audi Sport Italia seems to be again on a profitable season. For each drivers, the newbie title is probably the most vital success of their younger careers. Like Marco Butti, the 29-year-old Sicilian Simone Patrinicola accomplished his first season with Audi Sport Italia in GT3 racing and received this classification immediately. Butti competed in parallel within the TCR Europe in Comtoyou Racing’s Audi RS 3 LMS and clinched the rookie title there.
Second one-two in a row: 14 days after its earlier success within the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, Scherer Sport Team Phoenix managed the subsequent one-two with the Audi R8 LMS. Once once more, Kuba Giermaziak, who triumphed for the third time this yr, received forward of Audi Sport driver Frank Stippler and his teammate Vincent Kolb. Privateer Giermaziak shared the cockpit with Audi Sport driver Kelvin van der Linde this time. After 27 laps, the Polish-South African driver duo established a bonus of 28.797 seconds over the sister automotive for Ernst Moser’s outfit. Giermaziak had clinched his first victory of the season in June with Audi Sport driver René Rast, his second with Audi Sport driver Luca Engstler and privateer Kim-Luis Schramm. While touring automotive groups historically have the most effective possibilities within the total sequence standings as a result of scoring system, Scherer Sport Team Phoenix nonetheless has each purpose to be assured. Kuba Giermaziak leads the SP9 Pro class by 9 factors forward of Kolb/Stippler. Before the finale, the quantity 16 Audi R8 LMS can be forward of the quantity 5 sister automotive and quite a few different opponents in each the Nimex Team Trophy and the NLS Speed Trophy.
An honest season finale: At the seventh and last spherical of the ADAC GT Masters season, Audi Sport buyer racing clinched a podium for the eighth time this yr due to a buyer staff. Audi Sport driver Ricardo Feller, who shares the cockpit of an Audi R8 LMS from Montaplast by Land-Motorsport with Jusuf Owega, overtook his rival Ayhancan Güven, who was on pole place, in the beginning. However, regardless of Feller’s quickest race lap, the Land Audi was unable to carry off the Drago Racing Team’s Mercedes and completed second within the second race at Hockenheim, overwhelmed by simply 1.8 seconds. Team Montaplast by Land-Motorsport secured third total within the staff standings on the finish of the season in a area of 15 outfits. In the ADAC GT Masters Trophy, Team Car Collection Motorsport had purpose to rejoice. Privateer Florian Spengler, who shared the cockpit with Audi Sport driver Markus Winkelhock, determined this class for non-professional drivers in his favor for the second time in a row.
Second place and the lead within the standings: Audi’s buyer groups didn’t expertise a perfect fifth race weekend within the GT World Challenge Australia. Mercedes driver Prince Jefri Ibrahim spun the Audi R8 LMS of chief of the standings Yasser Shahin after a controversial begin at The Bend Motorsport Park and picked up a 15-second penalty for this. Liam Talbot later overtook chief Ibrahim within the Shannons Insurance Team Audi and constructed up an eight-second lead by the point of the driving force change. Fraser Ross took over the automotive from Talbot and led the 60-minute contest for a very long time. Only on the final lap did Mercedes driver Broc Feeney handle to overhaul his Audi rival. Talbot/Ross have been overwhelmed by solely two seconds. Fourth place went to Yasser Shahin/Garth Tander from The Bend Motorsport Park staff. After dangerous climate prevented the second race from being held, Shahin now leads the Pro Am standings by eleven factors forward of Ibrahim, whereas Talbot is an extra three factors behind in third. Two occasions are nonetheless within the calendar till the start of December.
