I attended the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS event at Brands Hatch.
This is a Championship of World Class drivers racing in GT3 cars. The 10 round championship take on Europe's best tracks and is split equally between the Endurance Cup and the Sprint Cup. The races at Brands Hatch are the opening rounds of the Sprint Cup.
Within this Championship, teams compete for overall victory as well as 3 class honours, Pro, Pro-Am Cup and Silver Cup.
In January it was announced that Valentino Rossi had signed for the WRT team and would be driving an Audi in the forthcoming season, so the tickets for this event had sold very well.
Cars for this event must comply with the FIA GT3 regulations and the six types of cars making up the field would be:
Audi R8 LMS Evo II GT3.
Ferrari 488 GT3.
Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo.
McLaren 720S GT3.
Mercedes AMG GT3.
Porsche 911 GT3 R.
A 26 car field would provide great racing and a soundtrack to match.
Below are my photos from the event.
The 111 JP Motorsport McLaren 720S GT3 driven by Patryk Krupinski and Christian Klien (Pro-Am Cup).
The 46 Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo II driven by Valentino Rossi and Frederic Vervisch (Pro). This was Valentino's debut at Brands Hatch and in round 2 of the Sprint Cup, Valentino scored his first championship points by bringing the car to the chequered flag in 8th place.
The 32 Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo II driven by Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor (Pro).
The 25 Sainteloc Junior Team Audi R8 LMS Evo II driven by Aurelien Panis and Patric Niederhauser (Pro).
The 26 Sainteloc Junior Team Audi R8 LMS Evo II driven by Nicolas Baert and Gilles Magnus (Silver Cup).
The 159 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 driven by Manuel Maldonado and Ethan Simioni (Silver Cup).
The 18 GSM Novamarine Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo driven by Gerhard Tweraser and Isaac Tutumlu Lopez (Silver Cup).
The 66 Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II GT3 driven by Pieter Schothorst and Dennis Marschall (Pro).
The 54 Dinamic Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-R driven by Aidrien De Leener and Christian Engelhart (Pro).
The 21 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 driven by Hugo Delacour and Cedric Sbirrazzuoli (Pro-Am Cup).
The 188 Garage 59 McLaren 720S GT3 driven by Miguel Ramos and Dean Macdonald (Pro-Am Cup).
The 11 Tresor by Car Collection driven by Simon Gachet and Christopher Haase (Pro).
The 12 Tresor by Car Collection driven by Mattia Drudi and Luca Ghiotto (Pro).
The 53 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 driven by Uylsse De Pauw and Pierre Alexandre Jean (Silver Cup).
This car and team would take overall victory in the opening round of the Sprint Cup.
The 30 Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo II GT3 driven by Benjamin Goethe and Thomas Neubauer (Silver Cup).
The 86 Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Petru Umbrarescu and Igor Waliko (Silver Cup).
The 89 Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Timur Boguslavskiy and Raffaele Marciello (Pro). This car and team would take overall victory in round 2 of the Sprint Cup.
The 38 Jota McLaren 720S GT3 driven by Oliver Wilkinson and Rob Bell (Pro).
The 56Dinamic Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3-R driven by Giorgio Roda and Klaus Bachler (Pro).
The 33 Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo II driven by Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer and Christopher Mies (Pro). That's what I'd call fast food.
The 52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 driven by Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini (Pro-Am Cup).
The 93 Sky - Tempesta Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Christopher Froggatt and Eddie Cheever (Silver Cup).
The 78 Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo driven by Alex Malykhin and Ben Barker (Pro-AM Cup).
The 88 Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Jim Pla and Jules Gounon (Pro).
The 87 Akkodis ASP Team Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Casper Stevenson and Thomas Drouet (Silver Cup).
The 99 Attempto Racing Audi R8 LMS Evo II GT3 driven by Alex Aka and Nicholas Scholl (Silver Cup).
I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Brands Hatch watching these cars in action, if you can get to a race in this championship please go and see them in action. These are world class GT drivers in some superb cars. I am looking forward to seeing how the rest of this season unfolds and to go back to Brands Hatch for this series again next season.
The next race in the series will be at Magny-Cours in France on 13-15 May.
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