VICTORY IN GT WORLD CHALLENGE FOR AUDI WRT IN MAGNY COURS

AUDI WRT winner.  Photo: Gilles VITRY

Audi wins the first race of the second round of the GT Sprint World Championships, which will take place this weekend at Magny-Cours.
WRT's Dries Vanthoor was the first to cross the finish line after taking over from Charlie Weerts.


Photo of GACHET-HAASE AUDI: Gilles VITRY

Obvious success after the first reign of the Audi Tresor by Car Collection, starting with a pole with the fast Simon Gachet, who then passed the wheel to Christopher Haase.
Weerts went into the driver's shift holes and changed the tire on lap 16, Gachet following in the footsteps.  However, the best hole to stop of WRT allowed Vanthoor to pass a little Haase at the end of the pit path


Photo of MERCEDES Boguslavskiy-Marciello: Gilles VITRY

At that moment, Vanthoor pushed hard as Haase missed the Belgian's pace.  In addition, the German lost in a few rounds a huge advantage over Raffaele Marciello, who replaced Timur Boguslavskiy, fifth in his place.
The Italian driver immediately overtook Nicolas Baert who took over from Gilles Magnus, still third in the first half hour, then started following Haase.  The gap was 5 ″ on Lap 22. In the 26th round he had already dropped to 2 ″ 1, two rounds later Raffaele was following Audi.
There was a good fight until Marciello in the dialect forced the German to take second place


SAINTELOC AUDI 4 - Panis-Niederhauser - Photo: Gilles VITRY

The stage is finally completed by the Audi of the Tresor by Car Collection Team of the two Gachet-Haase which is in front of another Audi and that of the Sainteloc team awarded the pair of Panis-Niederhauser.







ROSSI ARID WRT - VERVISCH - Photo: Gilles VITRY

Remember the fifteenth place under the crew checklist with former World Fire GP Champion Italian Valentino Rossi linked to Belgian Vervisch at the wheel of another WRT team of the WRT team.  

François LEROUX Photo: Gilles VITRY

Classification of RACE 1

1 - Weerts-Vanthoor (Audi) - WRT - 37 rpm
2 - Boguslavskiy-Marciello (Mercedes) - ASP for 3 ″ 138
3 - Gachet-Haase (Audi) - Tresor by Car Collection for  8 ″ 924
4 - Panis-Niederhauser (Audi) - Sainteloc to 13 ″ 685
5 - Drudi-Ghiotto (Audi) - Tresor by Car Collection in 23 ″ 702
6 - Magnus-Baert (Audi) - Sainteloc to 32 ″ 390
7 - Jean-De Pauw (Ferrari) - AF Corse a 32 "979
8 - Drouet-Stevenson (Mercedes) - ASP in  33 ″ 828
9 - Simmenauer-Mies (Audi) - WRT a 34 ″ 249
10 - Pla-Gotz (Mercedes) - ASP a 35 ″ 869






11 - Goethe-Neubauer (Audi) - WRT clock 38 ″ 480
12 - De Leener-Engelhart (Porsche) - Dinamic a 43 ″ 595
13 - Schothorst-Marschall (Audi) - Attempto a 44 ″ 619
14 - Scholl-Aka (Audi) - Experiment a 51 ″ 835
15 - Rossi-Vervisch (Audi) - WRT clock 53 ″ 407
16 - Maldonado-Simioni (McLaren) - Garage 59 for 58 ″ 389
17 - Umbrarescu-Walilko (Mercedes) - ASP a 1'00 ″ 844
18 - Ramos-MacDonald (McLaren) - Garage 59a 1'10 ″ 174
19 - Cheever-Froggatt (McLaren) - GruppeM at 1'17 ″ 274
20 - Roda-Bachler (Porsche) - Dinamic in 1'17 ″ 762
21 - Krupinski-Klien (McLaren) - JP Motorsport a 1'21 ″ 716






22 - Delacour-Sbirrazzuoli (Ferrari) - AF Corse a 1'23 ″ 340
23 - Machiels-Bertolini (Ferrari) - AF Corse in 1'36 ″ 278
24 - Tweraser-Tutumlu (Lamborghini) - GSM at 1 turn