25 GT3 are at the start for this second round of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Sprint Cup season powered by AWS. Timur Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello lead the championship but their Pro opponents arrive very sharp. And some crews in Silver are able to hold their own.
GT World Challenge Europe – Magny-Cours
Free Practice
A lap of 1’36.345 put Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy at the top of the timesheets at the wheel of the #89 Akkodis-ASP Team Mercedes AMG GT3. The championship leaders edge out a trio of Audi R8s LMS GT3 driven by #11 Tresor by Car Collection of Simon Gachet and Christopher Haase The first 10 finished in the same second.
Pre-Qualifiers
Alone against all, Marciello and Boguslavskiy once again dominated the session in front of a chasing group of 6 Audis! The leaders set a time of 1’36.136, just 0.116 ahead of the #32 Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor. Nice third place for Team WRT’s second Audi, the #33 of Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer and Christopher Mies. In Silver, the #26 Saintéloc Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 of the Belgians Gilles Magnus and Nicolas Baert is the fastest with the 5th overall time.
In Pro-Am, the #188 Garage59 McLaren 720S GT3 of Miguel Ramos and Dean McDonald was the fastest. The session was nevertheless interrupted for a long time because of a big crash by the #38 JOTA McLaren 720S GT3.
The results of the session are available ici
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