Ingolstadt, October 4, 2015 – In the ADAC GT Masters finale, Audi customer team enjoyed a dream weekend and a thankful season ending. The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT endured a roller coaster of emotions in the Blancpain Sprint Series.
Race wins and championship title in ADAC GT Masters
In the ADAC GT Masters finale at Hockenheim, the former Audi DTM driver Rahel Frey and Philip Geipel from Audi customer team Yaco Racing celebrated their first victory of the season in race one. Last year’s Champion Kelvin van der Linde and Stefan Wackerbauer from C. Abt Racing completed the podium in third place. In the second race, it was the Audi R8 LMS ultra that set the pace again. Nicki Thiim and Jordan Lee Pepper took the victory (C. Abt Racing). In addition to two race wins, there was also a championship title to celebrate: Andreas Weishaupt, who shares a C.Abt Racing Audi with Christer Jöns, triumphed in the Gentlemen classification.
Audi customer team wins VLN race
Twin Busch Motorsport won the eighth round of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring. Twin brothers Dennis and Marc Busch produced a concentrated drive in the 4-hour race. After starting from fourth position, Busch/Busch drove permanently in the leading group at the wheel of their Audi R8 LMS ultra with start number 44. In the closing stages of the race, the first three cars were occasionally within one second of each other. The duo finally crossed the finish line with a 60.480 second advantage.
Victory in New Zealand
The Audi customer team International Motorsport clinched victory in the second round of the ASKO Endurance Series in New Zealand. In the one-hour race at the Mike Pero Motorsport Park in Christchurch, Neil Foster drove from pole position to victory in an Audi R8 LMS ultra.
Mixed feelings at WRT
The Belgian Audi Club Team WRT went through an emotional roller coaster during round 6 of the Blancpain Sprint Series at Misano. In Sunday’s main race, seventh (Stéphane Ortelli/Stéphane Richelmi) and eighth (Christopher Mies/Enzo Ide) were sufficient for the Audi customer team to win the teams’ classification in the sprint series with one round still to run. In addition, the Danish brothers Thomas and Anders Fjordbach from Czech team I.S.R. Racing celebrated a class victory in the Silver Cup, a class for drivers under 25 years of age.
However, the successful weekend was tarnished by a hefty collision for WRT driver Laurens Vanthoor in the qualifying race on Saturday. The Belgian, who leads the drivers’ standing together with Robin Frijns before the finale, escaped from his car almost unhurt. The 24-year old suffered only bruising and a foot injury. Further tests will be made in his homeland. The Blancpain Sprint Series finale is held this coming weekend at Zandvoort (NL). The Audi customer teams can still win more titles.
