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Tresor Orange1 Audi clinches Sprint Cup title double as Feller and Drudi take season-closing victory at Zandvoort

GT World Challenge Europe
15 Oct. 2023 • 17:05
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Thereafter there was nothing that could halt Feller's victory parade. Dries Vanthoor was released into P2, but the #32 Team WRT BMW was unable to close the gap. The #40 Audi crossed the line to score a fourth victory of 2023, capturing the drivers' championship in style and securing the teams' crown for Tresor Attempto Racing.

 

Vanthoor was second and Krütten held on to third, scoring a landmark overall podium finish for a Gold Cup car in the process. This also secured the class Sprint Cup and combined drivers' championships for the #30 pairing, while both Gold Cup teams' titles went to Boutsen VDS.

 

The #60 VSR Lamborghini of Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli finished a season-best fourth ahead of the #14 Emil Frey Racing Ferrari and the #77 HRT Mercedes-AMG of Jordan Love and Frank Bird. This ensured that Love took the Silver Cup drivers' title, while HRT collected the teams' prize.

 

A number of titles were settled before the Zandvoort weekend. Akkodis ASP earned overall teams and drivers’ honours, while Patrese/Aka and Tresor Attempto Racing won the combined Silver Cup championships. In the Bronze Cup, Alex Malykhin and the Pure Rxcing squad secured top spot in the combined classification and the Sprint Cup.

 

The points scorers were completed by the #46 Team WRT BMW, the #69 Emil Frey Racing Ferrari, the #159 Garage 59 McLaren, and the #44 CLRT Porsche. As such the overall top 10 featured seven different brands, concluding what has been a highly competitive Sprint Cup campaign in perfect style.

 

Feller and Drudi ultimately finished 19 points clear at the top of the standings, but this does not reflect how close the battle has been. The classes have been fiercely contested, too, little surprise in a year has also delivered record Sprint Cup grids and a record number of competing brands.

 

It concludes the full Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS season for 2023, ending a journey that began at Monza in April. For the champions, the celebrations can soon begin; for those that missed out, the fight to go one better in 2024 has already started.

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