Rossi tops aggregate paid tests at Barcelona

51 cars took part to the morning Paid Test Session 1 of the penultimate round of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS Championship at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 52 took part to the afternoon Paid Test Session 2.

📷 Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 #46

Valentino Rossi was the fastest of both sessions setting the Benchmark of the day in 1:40.324 with the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 #46.

📷 Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #54 Dinamic GT Porsche 911 GT3 R (992)

Sven Müller with #54 Dinamic GT Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) was 0.045 sec. slower and second of both session.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #88 Akkodis Asp team Mercedes-AMG GT3.

Timur Boguslavskiy was 0.260 sec. slower than Rossi and third of combined sessions with #88 Akkodis Asp team Mercedes-AMG GT3.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #25 Sainteloc Junior Team Audi R8 R8 LMS GT3 EVO.

Simon Gachet was 0.032 sec. Slower than Boguslavskiy with #25 Sainteloc Junior Team Audi R8 R8 LMS GT3 EVO and fourth of the day.

Garage 59 tops Bronze class

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #188 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO.

Fifth overall of both session combined was Henrique Chaves with #188 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 EVO.

AF Corse Ferraris top afternoon session

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #71 Ferrari 296 GT3

The afternoon session saw both Ferrari 296 GT3 setting the fastest laps of the session with #71 Antonio Fuoco’s best lap in 1:40.860 which is the sixth fastest lap of both sessions. Alessio Rovera was second of the session with #51 0.303 sec. slower than his teammate which was not enough to be in the top 10 of combined sessions.

Source Fanatec GTWorldChEU pwrd by AWS. Top 10 of both paid test sessions.

Hubert Haupt tops Bronze drivers test session

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. #79 Haupt Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT3.

The late afternoon session was reserved for Bronze drivers. Hubert Haupt with his own team #79 Mercedes-AMG GT3 was the fastest of the session in 1:41.733.

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