JB Motorsport has taken their second consecutive win in the Swedish GT Championship, remaining unbeaten so far this year. Round two of the Championship was held at Mantorp Park this weekend.
The team performed well all weekend long and claimed pole position for the sixty minute race on Saturday. The race itself saw the JB Motorsport Audi R8 LMS, which was driven by Jan Brunstedt and Christer Lindholm, head on to a comfortable victory ahead of the field.
It was a great result for the Swedish team and they are looking forward to round three of the series, which will take place at the Göteborg City Arena on June 29.
Detroit is hosting the fourth meeting of the Pirelli World Challenge season, a temporary street course at Belle Island.
Race 1 has already been held today, with some good performances from the GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS cars. The Detroit race weekend has a smaller grid when compared to the previous rounds, with only 9 cars in the upper GT class. Right from the start the safety car made its appearance after a KIA crashed on the front straight. The cars were forced to stay behind the safety car for several minutes. The race went back to green and James Sofronas, the series leader with his #14 Audi R8 LMS, started to battle with Cadillac's Andy Pilgrim for third place. A few minutes later there was another crash and the safety car was deployed again, for a long yellow flag period. When the race resumed Sofronas was very fast and continued to push Pilgrim, but the Audi driver was simply out of time. James Sofronas finished the race in fourth. The race win went to Johnny O'Connel in the Cadillac CTS-V ahead of Randy Pobst's semi-works Volvo S60 in second and Andy Pilgrim's Cadillac CTS-V in third.
Another GMG Racing Audi R8 LMS doing well was the #24 car of Duncan Ende. Despite being far from the leading group, Ende battled well for fifth place against a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG and a Porsche 997 GT3. Ende finished the race in seventh place.
Race 2 is set for tomorrow, a 50-minute sprint format. We wish the best of luck to James Sofronas and the whole GMG Racing Audi team.
The DTM is at the Red Bull Ring (Austria) for round 3 of the championship. You can watch the qualifying session Live right HERE. Live Timing is available right HERE.
Audi has already done well in the free practice session this morning. Five Audi RS 5 DTM cars made it into the top 10, you can read about that here. Live updates on Twitter from the official Audi Sport channelcan be seenhere.
The free practice session at the Red Bull Ring has seen an even spread within the top ten, between the Audi and BMW competitors. The third round of the DTM is taking place in Austria this weekend, and the Audi team is hoping to repeat their win from last time out at Brands Hatch.
BMW’s Joey Hand topped the session, but a duo of Audis were close behind him, filling the top three. Championship leader and Brands Hatch winner, Mike Rockenfeller (Phoenix), was again the top placed Audi, setting the second fastest time, just 0.225 seconds behind the BMW.
Filipe Albuquerque (Rosberg) took third position, followed by Edoardo Mortara (Rosberg) in fifth, Adrien Tambay (ABT) in sixth and Jamie Green (ABT) in seventh. The top ten featured five Audis and five BMWs, all separated by a mere 0.449 seconds.
The qualifying sessions is set for this evening, starting at 17:50 local time. We wish the best of luck for the Audi teams and drivers.
