3H of Barcelona
What to know before the final
Overall :
Drivers
Raffaele Marciello is alone in the lead with 190.5 points, against 162.5 for Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor.
Teams
Akkodis ASP leads with 227.5 points against WRT 207.5.
The Gold Cup championship :
Three crews still in contention for the crown.
Ollie Millroy, Brendan Iribe and Frederik Schandorff have 84 points. Rahel Frey, Sarah Bovy and Michelle Gatting have 76 points. Ralf Bohn, Alfred and Robert Renauer have 62 points.
In Pro-Am :
Miguel Ramos leads with 200 points, against 194 for Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini.
In Silver :
Thomas Neubauer and Benjamin Goethe are already champions.
Endurance Championship
The points in the Gold Cup championship are the same as in the overall championship.
Jules Gounon, Raffaele Marciello and Daniel Juncadella have 79 points. Antonio Fuoco follows with 69 points.
Akkodis ASP leads the Teams Championship with 91 points.
Iron Lynx has 77 points and ROWE Racing 63 points.
In Pro-Am :
Andrea Bertolini, Stefano Costantini and Louis Machiels occupy the lead with 103 points.
Miguel Ramos, Henrique Chaves and Alexander West have 87 points.
Dominik Baumann and Valentin Pierburg have 76 points.
In Silver :
The title has already fallen into the hands of Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer, Thomas Neubauer and Benjamin Goethe.
The race
The last weekend of the European season went up crescendo in this Endurance final.
Pole position was taken by Pierguidi, Rovera and Fuoco (Ferrari 488 GT3 #71 - Iron Lynx) at the head of a grid comprising 48 GT3s.
The polemen led the start of the race followed closely by the #63 Lamborghini of Emil Frey Racing and the #54 Porsche of Dinamic Motorsport.
If Iron Lynx won, Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella’s Mercedes-AMG #88, had to finish second to take the crown, but she didn’t have the pace to fight for the podium.
The Lamborghini finally passed in the last moments of this 2nd relay.
Porsche Dinamic #54 stopped early and took the lead for the final hour of racing.
40 minutes before the end of the competition, the Safety Car enters the track to allow the evacuation of the Ferrari #83 Iron Dames.
Cairoli (Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) #54 - Dinamic Motorsport)restarted well and made a small gap of 1.5 seconds ahead.
Despite the pressure Cairoli gives Porsche its first Endurance Cup win of 2022.
The #71 Ferrari and #63 Lamborghini completed the overall podium.
Final Classification of the race
PRO :
1 : #54 Bachler/Picariello/Cairoli Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) Dinamic Motorsport
2 : #71 Pierguidi/Rovera/Fuoco Ferrari 488 GT3 Iron Lynx
3 : #63 Bortolotti/Aitken/Costa Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo Emil Frey Racing
Silver :
1 : #30 Simmenauer/Goethe/Neubauer Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 Team WRT
2 : #159 Maldonado/Macdonald/Kjaergaard McLaren 720S GT3 Garage 59
3 : #14 Wishofer/White/Lappalainen Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo Emil Frey Racing
Gold :
1 : #112 Blazek/Krupinski/Siedler McLaren 720S GT3 JP Motorsport
2 : #33 Robin/Robin/Tomita Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 Team WRT
3 : #911 Bohn/Renauer/Renauer Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) Herberth Motorsport
Pro-Am :
1 : #20 Loggie/Pierburg/Baumann Mercedes-AMG GT3 SPS automotive performance
2 : #91 Malykhin/Guven Porsche 911 GT3-R (991.II) Allied Racing
3 : #52 Costantini/Machiels/Bertolini Ferrari 488 GT3 AF Corse
The champions 2022
Overral
Teams
Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3
Drivers
Raffaele Marciello
Pro-Am
Teams
AF Corse
Ferrari 488 GT3
Drivers
Miguel Ramos
Silver
Teams
Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3
Drivers
Thomas Neubauer / Benjamin Goethe
Endurance Cup
Overall
Teams
Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3
Drivers
Jules Gounon / Daniel Juncadella / Raffaele Marciello Akkodis ASP Team #88 Mercedes-AMG GT3
Bronze
Teams
SPS Automotive Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3
Drivers
Reema Juffali / Tim Muller / Valentin Pierburg / George Kurtz SPS Automotive Performance #20 Mercedes-AMG GT3
Gold
Teams
Inception Racing McLaren 720S GT3
Drivers
Oliver Millroy / Frederik Schandorff / Brendan Iribe Inception Racing #7 McLaren 720S GT3
Pro-Am
Teams
SPS Automotive Performance Mercedes-AMG GT3
Drivers
Louis Machiels / Andrea Bertolini / Stefano Costantini AF Corse #52 Ferrari 488 GT3
Silver
Teams
Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3
Drivers
Benjamin Goethe / Thomas Neubauer / Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer Team WRT #30 Audi R8 LMS GT3
It is on this Barcelona meeting that the 2022 season of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS ends.
I was able to attend the winter tests and 2 great races for you.
Now let's wait for the winter tests to meet again to start the 2023 season of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS.
See you next year.
Raymond
Based on Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS press report