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may 10, 2021 - Audi

Audi R8 LMS top in Europe and Australia

In as many as two regional championships of promoter SRO’s GT World Challenge, two teams from Audi Sport customer #racing celebrated victories and the lead of the standings with the GT3 version of the Audi R8 LMS. The GT4 version and the Audi RS 3 LMS also contributed numerous successes to a weekend balance that was broadly diversified in terms of sports and geography.

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Strong start into the new season: The two Audi Sport drivers Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts started their title defense in the Fanatec #gtworldchallengeeurope powered by AWS Sprint Cup with great success. After Charles Weerts, at 20 years of age the youngest Audi Sport driver, set the fastest time in qualifying at Magny-Cours, he and his Belgian compatriot won the first race in darkness on Saturday by 6.4 seconds. The fastest pit stop of the race by Team WRT and the fastest race lap by Vanthoor after the driver change in the second half of the race underlined the strong team performance. In the second 60-minute race on Sunday, second place was enough for last year’s champions Vanthoor and Weerts to stay at the top of the standings. After the first of five sprint events, they have a twelve-point lead in the drivers standings. Team WRT leads the teams standings as the best of eleven teams with a 7.5-point advantage.

Victories number 4 and 5: The Bend Motorsport Park team again dominated #gtworldchallengeaustralia at its home race. On the third race weekend of the series at The Bend Motorsport Park circuit southeast of Adelaide, the driver duo Yasser Shahin/Garth Tander celebrated their fourth and fifth victories of the season in the Audi R8 LMS in two sprints. Shahin, whose family runs the circuit, and professional driver Tander, the 2019 Australian GT Endurance Champion, built up a lead of more than 16 seconds in the first race in the Pro-Am class. Second place went to Tony Bates/Dylan O’Keeffe in another Audi R8 LMS. Shahin/Tander won the second sprint with a five-and-a-half-second advantage despite a time penalty. In the championship standings, both increased their gap as leaders from 17 to 37 points. In the two other classes of the race series, Audi customers Arthur Abrahams, Eric Constantinidis, Bill Papas, Mark Rosser, Brad Schumacher, Matt Stoupas and Greg Taylor recorded a total of seven further podium successes with the R8 LMS. The most successful was Brad Schumacher, who extended his lead in the GT Trophy standings to 25 points with his class win.

Third place in qualifying race: Phoenix #racing achieved a podium result in the qualifying race in preparation for the Nürburgring 24 Hours. In a very balanced field, Audi Sport driver Frank Stippler and his fellow competitors Michele Beretta, Nicki Thiim and Vincent Kolb steered the Audi R8 LMS of Ernst Moser’s team to third place after six hours of #racing.

Victory in Norway: The Norwegian GT race series featured an Audi R8 LMS for the first time. Local race driver Wiggo Dalmo won the first sprint with a ten-second advantage on the Vålerbanen circuit in the inaugural #event. In the second race, he finished in second place.

Podium finish in the Slovak Republic: Petr Kacirek clinched a trophy for Team Duck #racing in the second round of the Eset Cup. The Czech crossed the finish line in third place in the GT3 class in the Audi R8 LMS in the second sprint race at the Slovakiaring.

Two successes in New Zealand: At the season opener of the North Island Endurance Series in New Zealand, two trophies went to Audi customer teams. In the one-hour category, Anthony Leighs steered his Audi R8 LMS to third place overall at Pukekohe. Long-standing customer team IMS with Neil Foster/Jonny Reid finished the three-hour race in second place with an Audi R8 LMS.

Three trophies in China: The Audi customer team YC #racing started the new GT Super Sprint Challenge race series at Shanghai with a good result. Ray Wu from China in the team’s Audi R8 LMS improved from fourth on the grid to second position in the Am Masters class in the first race. In the second race, Xing Yanbin in another Audi R8 LMS overtook his compatriot on the last lap. As a result, he finished second in the Am Masters class ahead of Wu.

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