Thursday, October 23, 2014

Blancpain Sprint Series: Seven Audi R8 LMS ultra entries for Baku World Challenge season finale


By Johan Laubscher

The finale of both the Blancpain Sprint Series and overall Blancpain GT Series will be heading to the streets of Azerbaijan for the Baku World Challenge from 1-2 November.

A total of seven Audi R8 LMS ultra entries are listed on the entry list, with the six regular entrants being joined by an one-off entry from Prosperia C.ABT Racing.

Belgian Audi Club Team WRT will again be entering their four Audi R8 LMS ultra cars, three in Pro and one in Silver Cup. Phoenix Racing will have their regular two-car line-up for the finale, fresh from winning the Pro-Am Trophy drivers’ title with Marc Basseng and Alessandro Latif at the previous round.

Prosperia C.ABT Racing are entering one Audi R8 LMS ultra. The car will be driven by Christopher Mies and the newly crowned ADAC GT Masters champion, young South African Kelvin van der Linde.

Audi entries for the Baku World Challenge:

Pro:
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - #1 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - #2 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Rene Rast and Enzo Ide
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - #9 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Stéphane Ortelli and Stéphane Richelmi
Phoenix Racing - #6 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Niki Mayr-Melnhof and Markus Winkelhock
Prosperia C.ABT Racing - #777 Audi R8 LMS ultra – Christopher Mies and Kelvin van der Linde

Pro-Am Trophy:
Phoenix Racing - #5 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Marc Basseng and Alessandro Latif

Silver Cup:
Belgian Audi Club Team WRT - #4 Audi R8 LMS ultra - Mateusz Lisowski and Vincent Abril

Entry list:


Photo credit: Blancpain GT Series