By Johan Laubscher
The Australian GT Championship headed to
Sydney Motorsport Park this weekend. Two Audi cars were entered, both run by
Melbourne Performance Centre.
The #6 Skwirk Audi R8 LMS ultra was driven by
Rod Salmon and joined for this weekend by Nathan Antunes. The second MPC R8 LMS
was the Equity-One Motorsports entry driven by Dean Koustoumidis and Andrew
McInnes. This was the first Australian GT event where the Koustoumidis R8 LMS
was run by MPC, following a switch from Minda Motorsport. Both cars were
recently entered by MPC in a regional event in Sydney, as preparation for this
weekend.
The cars performed very well and the Salmon
R8 LMS ultra qualified second and the Koustoumidis car in seventh. Race one saw
Salmon and Antunes scoring a podium by finishing in third, followed by the
second Audi in sixth place. The first race was won by Jack Le Brocq in an Erebus
Motorsport Mercedez-Benz SLS ahead of Klark Quinn in the VIP Porsche.
In race two the highest Audi finished in
sixth, again the #6 Audi R8 LMS ultra of Salmon and Antunes. The Equity-One Audi
R8 LMS finished in eighth, ensuring that both Audis finished the weekend inside
of the top ten for races one and two. The second race was again won by Jack Le
Brocq in the Mercedes ahead of Klark
Quinn, with the Maranello Motorsport Ferrari 458 in third.
Queensland Raceway will host the next Australian GT event, round five which will be held in August.
Photo credit: Australian GT
