Patterson, Talbot Shine at Sydney Motorsport Park
Garnet Patterson resisted late stress from Richie Stanaway to win the opening Fanatec GT World Problem Australia powered by AWS race at Sydney Motorsport Park alongside his EMA Motorsport co-driver Yasser Shahin.
Stanaway emerged from the motive force swaps round 20 seconds adrift after taking on the No. 888 Triple Eight JMR Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo from Prince Jefri Ibrahim.
Nonetheless, the New Zealander closed the hole by way of lapped site visitors and spent the ultimate seven minutes making an attempt to interrupt down Patterson’s protection.
In the end, the Porsche driver held sway to assert his and Shahin’s second win of the season by lower than half a second.
The following 60-minute race at Sydney noticed Liam Talbot and Fraser Ross prevail of their Shannons-liveried Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II after ranging from eighth.
Ross gained three positions when drama performed out on the opening lap, after factors chief Max Hofer began properly however tagged Jayden Ojeda’s Mercedes-AM GT3 Evo, inflicting a series response that left Stanaway with a puncture and Hofer’s Audi nearly putting the pit wall.
Harrolds Volante Rosso Motorsport driver Ojeda went on to guide the opening stint from Hofer who overtook Jamie Whincup down the within at Flip 5.
Respiration area was gained when Hofer acquired a five-second penalty for the first-lap incident, leaving Ojeda’s co-driver Ross Poulakis six seconds clear after the stops.
Talbot took over from Ross with a 23-second deficit to Poulakis, however the Melbourne Efficiency Centre Audi driver produced a robust closing stint to overhaul three automobiles together with the main Mercedes-AMG at Flip 1 with eight minutes to go.
Hofer and Geoff Emery twice completed fourth, that means that Talbot returned to a slender two-point championship lead.
RESULTS: Sydney Motorsport Park
Information & Notes
***Isotta Fraschini final week continued its LMH improvement program with a two-day take a look at at Vallelunga attended by Jean-Karl Vernay and Marco Bonanomi. It included the debut of a modification to the rear finish for improved sizzling air launch from the engine, in addition to work on automotive setup, aerodynamics and tire administration. A mechanical situation restricted working firstly of day two.
***Rookie Racing’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo gained the five-hour Tremendous Taikyu race at Autopolis. Ryuta Ukai, Hibiki Taira, Tatsuya Kataoka and Naoya Gamou mixed to beat the Helm Motorsports Nissan crew by eight seconds. Outcomes
***Tomas Pintos and Gonzalo De Andres swept the third spherical of the McLaren Trophy Europe season on the Nürburgring. Pintos narrowly beat Michael O’Brien to Race 1 honors by four-tenths of a second, earlier than De Andres delivered a barely extra comfy five-second margin of victory in Race 2.
**Three-time Tremendous GT champion Yuji Tachikawa will retire from driving on the finish of this season. The 48-year-old has been a part of Toyota’s GT500 lineup with the Cerumo staff each season since 1999.
***Manufacturers Hatch and Donington Park have switched locations on subsequent yr’s Clever Cash British GT Championship calendar, making the latter circuit the season finale venue. In an up to date schedule, Donington will host its second spherical on Sep. 7-8 adopted by the go to to Manufacturers on Sep. 28-29.
***Donington was provisionally introduced because the season finale venue however and not using a confirmed date. British GT has pointed to “congestion inside the U.Okay’s home and SRO’s worldwide schedules” as the explanation for bringing it ahead within the yr. A pre-season ‘media day’ can be held at Donington on Could 12.
***The Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 that was used to movie the upcoming Orlando Bloom movement image ‘Gran Turismo’ is on the market and will fetch between £225,000 and £275,000 ($289,000 to $353,000 USD) at public sale. The automotive was utilized in filming and in addition had a racing profession that included ending ninth on the 2015 Nürburgring 24.
On this weekend: IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (Street America), DTM (Nürburgring), Tremendous GT (Fuji), GT America powered by AWS (Nashville)