Audi RS 3 LMS (TCR)
Class victory in Macau: Filipe Souza from Macau celebrated a class victory in his home round. At the wheel of an Audi RS 3 LMS of the Champ X TA Motorsport team, in third place overall of the Macau Touring Car Cup, he scored victory in front of 13 other competitors in the class for race cars with two liters of displacement. After twelve laps, the race driver had achieved a 1.6-second advantage on the narrow city circuit. Souza in an RS 3 LMS has previously won the Circuit Hero One Series at Zhuhai with Audi this year.
Runner-up finish in America: Team AC Motorsport achieved a podium finish in the TCE class at the end of the 24H Series. Stéphane Perrin, Vincent Radermecker, Matthew Taskinen and William Neal in an Audi RS 3 LMS finished runners-up in this mixed touring car classification for TCR and Cup cars after 24 hours at Austin. As a result, Perrin is ranked in third position of the TCR drivers’ standings in the Championship of the Continents, while the Belgian fielding team, AC Motorsport, finished the teams’ classification in the runner-up’s spot.
Coming up next week
22–23/11 Kyalami (ZA), round 5, Intercontinental GT Challenge
22–24/11 Shanghai (CN), round 1, Asian Le Mans Series
23–24/11 Sepang (MAL), rounds 9 and 10, Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup
23–24/11 Estoril (P), rounds 9 and 10, GT4 South European Series
24–25/11 Phillip Island (AUS), rounds 11 and 12, CAMS NSW Production Sports Car Championship
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