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International GT Open - Winter Tests - Barcelona - Spain

16th - 17th February 2018

Event report and photos by Raymond Bonnello

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International Open GT season starts at Barcelona

GT3 Class

With a time of 1.43.585, the Brazilian duo Marcelo Hahn/Allam Khodair (Mercedes AMG GT3 Drivex School) topped the overall rankings of the Barcelona winter tests.

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Rinaldi Racing, who is back for a full-season campaign, brought four Ferraris 488 GT3.

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#11 Christian Menzel/Leonard Weiss

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#22 Georg Weiss/Oliver Kainz/Jochen Krumbach

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#33 Dominik Schwager/Rinat Salikhov

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#333 Andrea Montermini/Vadim Kogay

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BMW Teo Martín Motorsport is focusing on comparative work between the 2017- and 2018-spec BMWs M6 GT3.

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#4 Fran Rueda/Lourenço Beirão/Márcio Basso/Nonô Figueiredo

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Vincenzo Sospiri Racing, which will make its debut in the series, is testing with one Lamborghini Huracán GT3 .

#6 Nicolas Costa/Giulio Borlenghi/Kang Ling

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Polish squad Olimp Racing, who will contest selected events during the season, has brought its two new Audis R8 LMS

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#5 Stanislaw Jedlinski

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#77 Marcin Jedlinski

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Porteiro Motorsport is back to the series after three years and has acquired a brand new Mercedes AMG GT3.

#111 Félix Porteiro/Fernando Palazuelo could not attend because of a family issue.

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Krypton Motorsport, the Italian squad which is planning selected events.

#24 Stefano Pezzucchi/Mario Cordoni

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Ferrari 488 Challenge

Completing the cars on track were five Ferrari 488 Challenge.

MP Racing with four cars

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#50 Gostner/Gostner

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#161 Gostner/Sermagiotto

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#183 Gostner/Sermagiotto

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#381 Prinoth/Sermagiotto

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ff Corse

#93 Chris Froggatt

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and one Ferrari 458 Challenge

Spirit of Race

#28 Heah/Caldani

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The second Winter Test exercise is scheduled at Cricuit Paul Ricard (2-3 March).

(Based on International Open GT Press release)