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AUDI SPORT AFTER 24 HOURS OF SPA IN FOURTH PLACE IN THE STANDINGS WITH CHRISTOPHER HAASE

At Spa in 2019, Audi Sport customer racing was battling for its third 24-hour race victory this season. At the end of a race that was dominated by freak weather conditions and interrupted for several hours by heavy rain, the Audi R8 LMS, with the leading position having been maintained by Audi DTM drivers Robin Frijns/Nico Müller/René Rast in the gripping final stage, again proved its powerful performance capacity. Even so, drivers and teams were deprived of a podium finish in the overall classification. In the end, though, Audi Sport Team Saintéloc with the best Audi R8 LMS achieved third position on the list of IGTC teams entered and fourth overall.

WALKENHORST MOTORSPORT BMW M6 GT3 REACHES 11th PLACE AFTER CHASING PERFORMANCE IN 24 HOURS OF SPA

By the end of a turbulent 24-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps (BEL), defending champions Walkenhorst Motorsport had put in an impressive chasing performance as the #34 BMW M6 GT3 – driven by Christian Krognes (NOR) and BMW works drivers Nick Catsburg (NED) and Mikkel Jensen (DEN) – claimed 11th place after starting from 35th on the grid. An accident that was not the fault of the drivers forced BMW Team Schnitzer’s #42 BMW M6 GT3, driven by Martin Tomczyk (GER), Augusto Farfus (BRA) and John Edwards (USA), to retire just before the halfway point after an equally strong performance had seen them move up to third place..

ASTON MARTIN CLINCHES FIRST CLASS VICTORY IN TOTAL 24 HOURS OF SPA

Aston Martin has claimed victory in the Pro-Am class of a rain-interrupted 2019 TOTAL 24 Hours of Spa, after a brilliant performance by partner team TF Sport Racing with Oman with the new Vantage GT3. It was the maiden win in a 24-hour race for Aston Martin Racing’s new customer-focussed machine and also the first for the British sportscar marque since the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup event became a GT3-only competition.

KROES AND AFANASIEV EXTENDS POINTS LEAD WITH THIRD LAMBORGHINI SUPER TROFEO EUROPE WIN AT SPA

Danny Kroes and Sergei Afanasiev made it three Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe wins in four races after a charging drive from fourth on the grid in Race 2 at Spa-Francorchamps. The Bonaldi Motorsport team-mates now lead the standings by 13 points over the Imperiale Racing duo of Vito Postiglione and Kikko Galbiati, who recovered for their Race 1 retirement to finish third.

PROMINENT APPEARANCE OF THE AUDI R8 LMS GT2 AT SPA

Just three weeks following its world premiere at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the United Kingdom, the new Audi R8 LMS GT2 attracted attention at the world’s biggest GT race in Belgium. With 72 entrants, the 24 Hours of Spa is unique and regarded as the highlight of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in Europe as well as the worldwide Intercontinental GT Challenge.

CETILAR RACING COMPLETES THE FIA WEC PROLOGUE AT BARCELONA

Cetilar Racing completed more than 1,060 kms, covering a total of 228 laps without any trouble as the two-day official Prologue kicked off in Barcelona the FIA WEC season. The all-Italian team continued to develop the brand-new #47 Dallara-Gibson LMP2 car with which Roberto Lacorte and Giorgio Sernagiotto will make their debut in the World Championship, sharing the duties with experienced Andrea Belicchi and taking part in all the 2019-2020 events since the 4 Hours of Silverstone scheduled for early September.

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