Weekend Recap: Champions Crowned in GTWC Europe Sprint; SRO America Action
Recaps from Brands Hatch, Road America SRO events...
Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts sealed their second consecutive Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Sprint Cup drivers’ championship title by taking a podium result in Sunday’s second 60-minute race at Brands Hatch.
The WRT Audi pairing finished second to leave the penultimate round of the 2021 season with an unassailable lead over their nearest rivals ahead of next month’s Valencia finale.
Luca Stolz and Maro Engel won Race 2 in their Toksport WRT Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo after a last-lap puncture denied AKKA-ASP’s Timur Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello.
Boguslavskiy and Marciello came into the race as Vanthoor and Weerts’ closest championship threat, but left Brands Hatch sitting behind Stolz and Engel in the standings with two races remaining.
Stolz and Engel’s reduced 42.5-point deficit to the WRT pairing is too great to enable a turnaround at Valencia, with a maximum of 35 on offer at the season-ending weekend.
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Turner Wins After Late-Race Winward Drama on Sunday
Robby Foley and Michael Dinan have claimed a last-gasp victory in Sunday’s Fanatec GT World Challenge America powered by AWS race at Road America following a late pit stop for Russell Ward.
Dinan scored his first overall victory in GT3 competition, driving the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 to a 4.662-second win over the No. 6 K-PAX Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo of Giovanni Venturini, who made a late surge to second.
Ward took over the lead from the pole-sitting No. 93 Racers Edge Motorsports Acura NSX GT3 Evo of Taylor Hagler with 34 minutes to go and appeared set to take victory until being forced into the pits with less than five minutes to go after running low on fuel.
It dropped Ward and co-driver Philip Ellis to a fifth place overall finish.
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Quinlan, Liefooghe Win GT4 America Race 2 Amid Late-Race Confusion
Sean Quinlan and Gregory Liefooghe claimed overall victory in Sunday’s Pirelli GT4 America race at Road America following a late-race restart and confusion amid a wave-by due to an Am class McLaren 570S GT4.
Quinlan took his No. 119 Stephen Cameron Racing BMW M4 GT4 to a 0.805-second win over the No. 52 Auto Technic Racing BMW of Tom Capizzi in the 60-minute scheduled race that was impacted by two safety car periods.
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Wilzoch Declared GT America Winner in Chaotic Race 2 at Road America
Andy Wilzoch has been declared the winner in a chaotic second GT America powered by AWS race that saw only a single green flag racing lap.
The Flying Lizard Motorsports driver emerged from a seven-car melee on Lap 2 after oil was put down by the No. 25 The Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT4 of Gray Newell on the opening lap.
It initially caught out GT4 competitors Chris Cagnazzi and Ross Chouest, whose Mercedes-AMG GT4s made heavy contact with the Turn 3 wall in separate incidents, prior to overall leader James Sofronas spinning and getting stuck in the wet grass in his GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra.
Moments later, at least four other GT3 cars, including Jason Daskalos’ Audi, the Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R of Charlie Luck, Memo Gidley’s TKO with Flying Lizard Bentley Continental GT3 and the Jason Harward-driven Zelus Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo all collided heading down into Turn 5.
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