Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup - Festival de la Velocidad Barcelona

28th - 30th September 2018

Event report by Raymond Bonnello

Bronze test - Friday, 28 September - 15:55

Friday, September 28th, 15:55, started the bronze tests for this final round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup 2018.

20 cars took the track under a temperature of 33°.

With a time of 1:46.739 the AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 #51 took the best time of the session before another representative of the Maranelo firm the #11 of Kessel Racing.

Rinaldi Racing completed the hat-trick of the Ferrari 488 GT3 #333, in fourth place was the first non-Ferrari, but still Italian, the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 #27 Daiko Lazarus Racing.

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Free practice - Saturday, 29 September - 09:00

Dries Vanthoor (Belgian Audi Club Team WRT #1 - Audi R8 LMS) set the pace in the Free Practice session of the weekend at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Saturday morning.

The Belgian posted a best time of 1:44.203 early on in his Audi that he shares with Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas.

Black Falcon’s #4 Mercedes of Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz was the second quickest car with a time of 1:44.440.

Two of Strakka Racing’s Mercedes #44 of Felipe Fraga,Christian Vietoris, Oliver Rowland and #42 of Chris Buncombe,Nick Leventis, Lewis Williamson, best-placed Pro-Am contender, were third and fourth, ahead of the #25 Sainteloc Racing Audi with at the wheel Simon Gachet, Ricardo Feller and Christopher Haase in fifth.

Barwell Motorsport’s #78 Lamborghini Huracan GT3, drove by Michele Beretta, Sandy Mitchell and Martin Kodric led the Silver Cup from seventh overall.

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The session was red-flagged twice for separate incidents, losing around 30 minutes of running in the 90-minute session.

Pre Qualifying - Saturday, 29 September - 16:45

Maxi Buhk, Alvaro Parente and Maxi Goetz the #43 Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing crew has topped pre-qualifying ahead of the #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3.

In the Pro-Am class, the #49 Ram Racing Mercedes-AMG led the way with Remon Vos and Tom Onslow-Cole.

The Silver Cup category was topped by another Mercedes-AMG GT3, the #90 of AKKA ASP Team of Jules Szymkowiak, Jack Manchester and Nico Bastian.

The Am Cup was the only exception to Mercedes-AMG’s dominance, as the #36 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW of Henry Walkenhorst, Ralf Oeverhaus and Immanuel Vinke earned class honours for pre-qualifying.

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Qualifying - Sunday, 30 September - 09:00

The Black Falcon’s #4 Mercedes crew of Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz began the weekend one point shy of leader Raffaele Marciello, but levelled the scores by taking the pole position bonus at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

Chris Mies, Alex Riberas and Dries Vanthoor (Audi Club Team WRT #1 - Audi R8 LMS) took the the second place on the grid with 0.172 gap.

In Pro Am, the pole went to Strakka Racing's Mercedes AMG GT3 # 42 of Nick Leventis, Chris Buncombe and Lewis Williamson.

P1 in Am Cup went to the #89 AKKA Mercedes thanks to Fabien Barthez and Eric Debard.

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The Q1 was interrupted by long minutes following the big exit at turn 9 of the Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS #66, driven by Pieter Schothorst.

In Q2, a Full Course Yellow was set up as Reiter Young Stars' Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX #24 finished its race in the gravel of the first corner.

A red flag was then presented to competitors as AUDI R8 LMS #888 from Car Collection Motorsport (Antone Forne Tomas) also visited the gravel.

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The race - Sunday, 30 September - 15:05 - 18:05

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How to report when we do not know the winner of the race.

On the track the Mercedes-AMG GT3 #4 arrived in front of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Mercedes-AMG Team Akka ASP #88 of Tristan Vautier, Daniel Juncadella and Raffaele Marciello after a battle of all times, some safety car maintained the suspense until the checkered flag.

During the technical control after the race, the technical marshals have discovered an irregularity on the Mercedes-AMG GT3 #4.

Following Stewards decision, the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon car has been disqualified from round 10's Blancpain GT Series race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

The team has taken the decision to appeal the disqualification.

The results of the Barcelona race, and the championship standings, will remain provisional until the appeal has been heard.

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What can we say about this race, it was exciting from the edge of the track.

The Emil Frey G3 Jaguar #54 of Alex Fontana, Adrian Zaugg and Mikael Grenier won the silver cup for its ultimate race, and can be finished on the third step of the podium depending of the resultut of the #4 appeal.

In Pro Am, the victory fell into the hands of Daiko Lazarus Racing with his Lamborghini Huracan GT3 #27 drove by Giuseppe Cipriani, Miguel Ramos and Fabrizio Crestani while the title goes to the Mercedes AMG GT3 #42 Strakka Racing of Chris Buncombe, Nick Leventis and Lewis Williamson.

The Am Cup class was won by the #77 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan of Adrian Amstutz, Leo Machitski and Richard Abra, which clinched the overall and Endurance class title for the British squad and secured the same set of drivers’ honours for Amstutz and Machitski.

I will come back to update as soon as the final ranking will be known

Presentation of participants team by team

Attempto Racing

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Audi R8 LMS - Anders Fjordbach/Kim Luis Schramm/Clemens Schmid

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Audi R8 LMS - Pieter Schothorst/Steijn Schothorst/Kelvin van der Linde

Barwell Motorsport

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Richard Abra/Adrian Amstutz/Leo Matchiski

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Michele Beretta/Sandy Mitchell/Martin Kodric

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT

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Audi R8 LMS - Dries Vanthoor/Christopher Mies/Alex Riberas

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Audi R8 LMS - Sheldon van der Linde/Stuart Leonard/Robin Frijns

Bentley M-Sport

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Bentley Continental GT3 - Jordan Pepper/Steven Kane/Jules Gounon

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Bentley Continental GT3 - Vincent Abril/Andy Soucek/Maxime Soulet

Black Falcon

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Maro Engel/Yelmer Buurman/Luca Stolz

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Kriton Lendoudis/Saud Al Faisal/Rui Aguas

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Hubert Haupt/Gabriele Piana/Abdulaziz Al Faisal

Car Collection Motorsport

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Audi R8 LMS - Dimitri Parhofer/Antonio Forne Tomas/Frank Stippler

Daiko Lazarus Racing

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Giuseppe Cipriani/Miguel Ramos/Fabrizio Crestani

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Arno Santamato/Toby Sowery

Emil Frey Racing

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Lexus RC F GT3 - Christian Klien/Marco Seefried/Albert Costa

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Emil Frey G3 Jaguar - Alex Fontana/Adrian Zaugg/Mikael Grenier

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Lexus RC F GT3 - Markus Palttala/Stéphane Ortelli/Norbert Siedler

Garage 59

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McLaren 650 S GT3 - Côme Ledogar/Ben Barnicoat/Andrew Watson

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McLaren 650 S GT3 - Alexander West/Chris Harris/Chris Goodwin

GRT Grasser Racing Team

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Raffaelle Gianmaria/Ezequiel Perez Companc/Marco Mapelli

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Mirko Bortolotti/Andrea Caldarelli/Christian Engelhart

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Franck Perera/Phil Keen/Rolf Ineichen

Herberth Motorsport

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Porsche 911 GT3-R - Jürgen Häring/Edward Lewis Brauner/Wolfgang Triller

Kessel Racing

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Michael Broniszewski/Alessandro Pier Guidi

Manthey Racing

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Porsche 911 GT3-R - Romain Dumas/Dirk Werner/Frederic Makowiecki

Nissan Team RJN

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Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 - Colin Noble/Ricardo Sanchez/Struan Moore

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Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 - Jann Mardenborough/Matt Parry/Alex Buncombe

Oman Racing with TF Sport

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Aston Martin V12 Vantage - Euan Mckay/Ahmad Al Harthy/Charlie Eastwood

Ombra Racing

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Lamborghini Huracan GT3 - Andrea Rizzoli/Romain Monti/Alex Frassineti

RAM Racing

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Remon Vos/Tom Onslow-Cole

Reiter Young Stars

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Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX - Mads Siljehaug/Lenny Marioneck/Patric Niederhauser

Rinaldi Racing

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Alexander Mattschull/Rinat Salikhov/Daniel Keilwitz

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Rick Yoon/Pierre Ehret/Rory Penttinen

R-Motorsport

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Aston Martin V12 Vantage - Dominik Baumann/Marvin Kirchhofer/Maxime Martin

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Aston Martin V12 Vantage - Matthieu Vaxivière/Jake Dennis/Nicki Thiim

ROWE Racing

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BMW M6 GT3 - Nicky Catsburg/Jens Klingmann/Tom Blomqvist

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BMW M6 GT3 - Alexander Sims/Jesse Krohn/Philipp Eng

Saintéloc Racing

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Audi R8 LMS - Simon Gachet/Ricardo Feller/Christopher Haase

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Audi R8 LMS - Nyls Stievenart/Marc Rostan/Markus Winkelhock

SMP Racing

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Davide Rigon/Mikhail Aleshin/Miguel Molina

SMP Racing by AKKA-ASP

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Michael Meadows/Alexey Korneev/Denis Bulatov

Spirit of Race - AF Corse

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Lorenzo Bontempelli/Duncan Cameron/Matt Griffin

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Ferrari 488 GT3 - Niek Hommerson/Louis Machiels/Andrea Bertolini

Strakka Racing

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Chris Buncombe/Nick Leventis/Lewis Williamson

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Maxi Buhk/Alvaro Parente/Maxi Goetz

Team AKKA-ASP

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Nicolas Jamin/Mauro Ricci/Jean-Luc Beaubelique

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Tristan Vautier/Daniel Juncadella/Raffaele Marciello

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Fabien Barthez/Eric Debard

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Mercedes-AMG GT3 - Jules Szymkowiak/Jack Manchester/Nico Bastian

Team Parker Racing

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Bentley Continental GT3 - Derek Pierce/Rob Smith/Seb Morris

Walkenhorst Motorsport

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BMW M6 GT3 - Henry Walkenhorst/Ralf Oeverhaus/Immanuel Vinke

The Blancpain GT Series 2018 season is over, see you again for the 2019 season.

2019 Blancpain GT Series calendar

Winter tests :

Paul Ricard (13-14 March)

Endurance Cup :

Monza (13-14 April)

Silverstone (11-12 May)

Paul Ricard (1er-2 June)

24 Heures de Spa (27-28 Jully)

Nürburgring (31 août-1er September)

Sprint Cup :

Brands Hatch (4-5 May)

Red Bull Ring (25-26 May)

Misano (29-30 June)

Budapest (7-8 September)

Barcelone (28-29 September)

(Based on Blancpain GT Series Press release)