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ELEVEN MORE TITLES FOR AUDI SPORT CUSTOMER RACING

In the decisive phase of the 2021 season, Audi’s customer teams remain on course for success: The overall title in Italy, a fifth championship success in the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS, class titles on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife as well as overall and class titles for the Audi RS 3 LMS in touring car racing contribute to a strong tally. In the overall total since the start of the program in 2009, the number of all titles won by the Audi R8 LMS GT3 exceeded the 200 mark with a total of 86 drivers titles and 117 additional successes in other categories at the weekend.

1AIM VILLORBA CORSE SET FOR BARCELONA 4 HOURS

The 2021 season of 1AIM Villorba Corse kicks off from the Montmelò circuit. The new project involving the team led by Raimondo Amadio is ready for the first round of the European Le Mans Series, the 4 Hours of Barcelona, which will take place on the Catalan circuit on April 16-18. The Italian team will line up the LMP3 Ligier JS P320 powered by Nissan with Italian drivers Alessandro Bressan and Damiano Fioravanti and their Greek teammate Andreas Laskaratos.

TECH1 RACING AND LEXUS ON THE PODIUM AT THE FINAL GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT RACE

The final GT World challenge Europe Sprint race took place on the Spanish soil with a triple race meeting in Barcelona for Aurelien Panis and Thomas Neubauer at the wheel of the Lexus RC F GT3 #15. The weekend was quite complicated for the team: an unfavorable track, a frustrating first race, a mechanical retirement in race 2. But it came to a happy end with a podium in the Silver Cup in the final race.

FAUST SALOM AIMS FOR HIS RESULT OF THE GT CUP OPEN SEASON AT HOME ROUND

Faust Salom heads to Barcelona for the fifth event of the 2019 GT Cup Open season in which the Spaniard is back to drive the Teo Martín Motorsport-run McLaren 570S at his home round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Salom, who will be racing in front of his crowd of family, friends and sponsors, expects to deliver his best performance of the season in the GT Cup Open.

ACE1 VILLORBA CORSE SHINES IN ELMS DEBUT IN BARCELONA

First take is good for the new endurance project of ACE1 Villorba Corse team, which made its debut last weekend in the 4 Hours of Barcelona on the Catalan circuit of Montmelò, immediately taking the first point finish in an international championship as the European Le Mans Series. Authors of a consistent race without any errors neither on the track nor in the pits, the team led by Raimondo Amadio and the crew formed by the Japanese driver Yuki Harata and Italians Alessandro Bressan and Gabriele Lancieri clinched a precious ninth place in the LMP3 category with their Ligier JS P3 Nissan prototype.

FERRARI TAKES THE TOP FOUR IN LMGTE AT THE 4 HOURS OF BARCELONA

Four Ferrari crews occupied the first four places in the LMGTE class at the close of the 4 Hours of Barcelona. A noteworthy final balance sheet for the third round of the European Le Mans Series, held today in Spain, which for the first time in its history, was played out under artificial light. The spoils, for the second time this season, went to the 488 GTE crew of Luzich Racing with Alessandro Pier Guidi, Fabien Lavergne and Nicklas Nielsen who, thanks to today’s result, become the new overall leaders.

DRIVEX SECURES GT OPEN PRO-AM CLASS WIN AND THIRD OVERALL WITH DEBUTANTS HAHN / AUER

Drivex managed to put an excellent end to the 2018 International GT Open season and, mainly, a promising performance for the upcoming 2019. Christian Hahn and Lucas Auer couldn’t have dreamt for a better debut in the series sharing the Drivex-run Mercedes AMG GT3 and the Austrian-Brazilian duo finished in third place the last race of the season at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Besides, they won the Pro-Am class. Their teammates Marcelo Hahn and Allam Khodair brought a sixth place home in the same race and, as a result, Marcelo ranked third overall in the Pro-Am class.

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