By Johan
Laubscher
The Spanish
IBER GT Championship is hosting the season finale at Circuit de Catalunya in
Barcelona this weekend. Two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars are entered for the IBER GT
finale.
The IBER GT finale
is being held alongside the finale of the International GT Open, with both
series running together on track. Both championships are split into two
categories: the SGT class for GTE specification vehicles and GTS for GT3
specification vehicles.
Three Audi
R8 LMS ultra cars are on the grid, of which two are IBER GT entrants. Team
Novadriver had entered both of their Audi R8 LMS ultra cars this weekend. The
first car from Team Novadriver is the #81 Audi R8 LMS ultra with drivers Cesar
Campanico and GT Open GTS class (GT3) title hopeful, Rafael Hideo Suzuki. This
#81 car is entered for both the Spanish IBER GT and GT Open. Team Novadriver is aiming for the Spanish IBER GT title and Suzuki is aiming to become the GT
Open GTS champion.
Team
Novadriver’s second car is the #80 Audi R8 LMS ultra driven by Manuel Gião and Lourenço
Da Veiga, who are only entered in the IBER GT. A third Audi is also on the
grid, but it is only entered in the GT Open class, the car entered by Belgian
Audi Club Team WRT, the #88 Audi R8 LMS ultra of Filipe Albuquerque and Yves
Weerts.
The first race was held late on Saturday and concluded with the #81 Audi R8 LMS ultra placing fourth within the overall combined results. This was enough to take third overall within IBER GT and second place within the IBER GT GTS class. Their teammates in the #80 Audi finished fifteenth overall in the combined results.
The second and final race is set for tomorrow afternoon.
Photo credit: Team Novadriver
