TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa 2022: Silver race
The class dominators ended on Silver podium
The Silver Cup has been dominated by both Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 Team WRT #30 and Aka Attempto Racing #99 as well as Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #14 at the merci of pitstops.
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The three remained within one lap at most during the TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa.
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At the end, 1’22.664” was separating Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer, Benjamin Goethe, Thomas Neubauer Team WRT Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #30 ending first of class
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from Marius Zug, Juuso Puhakka, Nicolas Schöll, Alex with Aka Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #99.
Tuomas Tujula, Stuart White, Konsta Lappalainen with Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #14 ended third one lap behind the winners of class.
Seven additional Silver class cars crossing checkered flag
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Baptiste Moulin, Mattia Michelotto, Marcus Paverud, Michael Dörrbecker on board of VSR Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #163 were fourth, four laps behind the winning Audi.
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Fifth of Silver class: Sean Walkinshaw, Oscar Tunjo, Patrick Kujala, Ezequiel Perez Companc in Madpanda Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 #90.
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Grouped shot for both Porsche 911 GT3-R entries in class: Marius Nakken, Mauro Calamia, Giorgio Roda, Mikkel O. Pedersen with Dinamic Motorsport #56 ending sixth and Dominik Fischli, Patrik Matthiesen, Vincent Andronaco, Joel Sturm with Allied Racing #22 seventh.
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VSR Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #563 driven by Karol Basz, Michele Beretta, Benjamin Hites, Yuki Nemoto ended 8th.
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Team owner and driver Samantha Tan together with Maxime Oosten, Nick Wittmer, Harry Gottsacker brought the beautiful livery of Samantha Tan Racing BMW M4 GT3 #28 to checkered flag at P9 of class.
Last of class, Diego Menchaca, Lewis Proctor, Finlay Hutchison in Team WRT Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #31, 36 laps behind the winners of Silver class.
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Lots of DNF in Silver class
Out of the 19 entries in Silver class, 9 didn’t finish the race.
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James Baldwin, Vargas Manuel Maldonado, Ethan Simioni, Nicolai Kjaergaard’s Garage 59McLaren 720S GT3 #159 and Daniele Di Amato, Lorenzo Patrese, Alberto di Folco, Pierre Alexandre Jean’s Tresor by Car Collection Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #11 were early animators of the class but disappeared from ranking before mid-race.
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Aurelien Panis, Cesar Gazeau, Gilles Magnus, Nicolas BaertSainteloc Junior Team in Audi R8 LMS evo II GT3 #26, David Pittard, Charlie Fagg, Theo Nouet, Roman de Angelis with Beechdean AMR Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 #97 and Silver CupAl Faisal Al Zubair, Axcil Jefferies, Daniel Morad, Fabian Schiller driving Al Manar Racing by HRT Mercedes-AMG GT3 #777 gave up within the three first hours.
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Jeffrey Kingsley, Valdemar Eriksen, Sebastien Baud in GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3 #3, Jannes Fittje, Jordan Love, Alain Valente, Frank Bird with Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 #4, Casper Stevenson, Tommaso Mosca, Thomas Drouet in AKKODIS ASP Team Mercedes-AMG GT3 #87, Max Weering, Isaac Tutumlu Lopez, Taylor Cooke, Brandon Leitch with Leipert Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #27 also DNF.
