Motorsport Newsletter From Audi

Halliday and Ortelli on the podium - Brinkmann Motorsport score twice

Halliday and Ortelli on the podium
 
GT3 France: David Halliday and Stéphane Ortelli took podium positions in both French GT Championship races in an Audi R8 LMS (Audi Team Oreca) at Val de Vienne, France. David Halliday, who started from pole position for the first race, relinquished his lead early, but was able to defend second place along with Ortelli to the checkered flag in the high summer temperatures. In the second race Halliday/Ortelli finished third. Their Oreca team mates Soheil Ayari and Bruno Hernandez were fifth in both races. In Sunday’s race the Audi drivers Stéphane Lemeret and Greg Franchi (WRT), who retired after an accident from the first race, moved up to fourth place.
 
Brinkmann Motorsport score twice
 
GT Open: Brinkmann Motorsport started the fourth International GT Open race of the season at Spa-Francorchamps as sole Audi team. Around the famous Belgian race track the Dutch drivers Siebrand Dijkstra and Arjan van der Zwann took seventh place in both races in the Audi R8 LMS and, in doing so, scored points twice. Phoenix Racing did not start at the track in the Ardennes following the accident at Imola.
 
News bits
 
The press conference leading up to the DTM race at the Norisring is held on Tuesday between 11:00 and 12:00 in the Breuninger department store in the Karolinenstraße in Nuremberg. Present for Audi are Mattias Ekström and Timo Scheider who will sign autographs afterwards ... The Japanese "Super Taikyu" GT series is open for GT3 class cars for the first time in 2011, which therefore also allows the use of the Audi R8 LMS in Japan ... On Monday and Tuesday Mike Rockenfeller put in some laps around the Audi factories in Neckarsulm and Ingolstadt in the Audi R15 TDI which was victorious in the 24 Hours of Le Mans ... Le Mans winners Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas visit the DTM race at the Norisring this coming weekend.
 
Results and points
 
Val de Vienne (F), June 26, French GT Championship race 7
1. Canal/Tonelli (Corvette) 36 laps in 1h 00m 09.549s
2. Ortelli/Halliday (Audi R8 LMS) + 9.074s
3. Derlot/Peyroles (Corvette) + 31.034s
4. Panis/Debard (Corvette) + 35.236s
5. Ayari/Hernandez (Audi R8 LMS) + 35.635s
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7. Bouchut/Merafina (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 11.808s
8. Mollekens/Tuchbant (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 12.095s
9. Lunardi/Sourd (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 16.242s
Val de Vienne (F), June 27, French GT Championship race 8
1. Derlot/Peyroles (Corvette) 36 laps in 1h 00m 33.198s
2. Cazenave/Police (Corvette) + 13.243s
3. Ortelli/Halliday (Audi R8 LMS) + 20.016s
4. Franchi/Lemeret (Audi R8 LMS) + 28.362s
5. Ayari/Hernandez (Audi R8 LMS) + 28.795s
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7. Mollekens/Tuchbant (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 21.753s
11. Lunardi/Sourd (Audi R8 LMS) - 1 lap
17. Bouchut/Merafina (Audi R8 LMS) - 4 laps
Next race: Magny-Cours (F), August 28
 
Spa-Francorchamps (B), June 26, International GT Open race 7
1. Frezza/Couceiro (Ferrari) 28 laps in 1h 11m 29.382s
2. Dayraut/Makowiecki (Ferrari) + 0.363s
3. Livio/Bontempelli (Ferrari) + 17.814s
4. Bamford/Mortimer (Ford) + 18.698s
5. Roux/Rodrigues (Ferrari) + 31.484s
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7. Dijkstra/van der Zwaan (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 21.061s
Spa-Francorchamps (B), June 27, International GT Open race 8
1. de Lorenzi/Borghi (Porsche) 28 laps in 51m 15.135s
2. Gruber/Deverikos (Porsche) + 7.452s
3. Lancelotti/Lancieri (Aston Martin) + 15.212s
4. Frezza/Couceiro (Ferrari) + 15.645s
5. Lieb/Bullitt (Porsche) + 15.964s
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7. Dijkstra/van der Zwaan (Audi R8 LMS) + 16.727s
Next race: Magny-Cours (F), July 10
Standings after 8 of 16 races: 1. Dayraut, 44 points; 2. Couceiro and Frezza, 42; 4. Deverikos and Gruber, 37; 6. Livio and Bontempelli, 32; 8. Lancieri and Lancelotti, 26.
 
Coming up next week
 
July 2 -4: DTM Norisring (D)
July 2 -4: FIA GT3 Le Castellet (F)
July 2 -4: Italian GT Championship Imola (I)
July 3: Endurance Championship Nürburgring (D)