By Johan Laubscher
The International GT Open hosted its
opening round at the Nürburgring this weekend. Two Audi Sport customer racing
teams took part.
Team Novadriver entered the #58 Audi R8 LMS ultra with drivers César Campaniço and Aditya Patel. The German Team Spirit Race team, who are regular DMV TCC competitors, entered their #69 Audi R8 LMS ultra with Suzanne Weidt and Dietmar Haggenmüller. Both teams were entered in the GTS category for FIA GT3 specification machinery.
The first qualifying session saw Team
Novadriver qualifying fifth in class, twelfth overall, ahead of Team Spirit
Race, fourteenth in class. Team Novadriver again placed twelfth overall during
the second qualifying session, taking sixth in class. Team Spirit Race qualified
fifteenth in GTS.
Race one concluded with Team Novadriver
scoring eighth place within the GTS class, followed by Team Spirit Race in
fifteenth.
Round two of the International GT Open
will be hosted at Portimão, 6-8 June.
Photo credit: GT Open [FOTOSPEEDY]