24H Series: It (almost) doesn't get any better 🎥

The local TV channel Tele Z accompanied the Autorama team to Mugello and describes the hard fight with AC Motorsport for the victory and title.

Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing managed to take its fourth win of the season in the touring car division at the Hankook 12H Mugello against four rival TCR teams and two from the TCX class. In a close battle with the equally matched Cupra team Bas Koeten Racing from the Netherlands, Miklas Born and Yannick Mettler prevailed with the Italians Roberto Ferri and Alberto Vescovi in the VW Golf GTi TCR.

Both teams on the podium
The lead of car number #112 after 307 completed laps on the 5.245-kilometer Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello was just 87 seconds.

The Autorama Golf #1, piloted by Jasmin Preisig, Philipp Hagnauer, team boss Stefan Tanner, Austrian Constantin Kletzer and Mettler as the double spearhead, finished just one lap behind in third place. This quintet was just under two minutes ahead of AC Motorsport's Audi RS3 LMS after the split half marathon - five hours on Friday and seven on Saturday.

Stefan Tanner, Team Principal Autorama Motorsport: "The pressure was on. Because five drivers from four different teams could still become Intercontinental champions. If we had finished behind AC Motorsport (the Belgian team won in Dubai, Red.), it wouldn't have been enough."

Title flood
As a result, the defending champions also captured all possible titles in the intercontinental championship, as they had done at the previous race in Sicily in the 24H Series Europe.

• Drivers' Champion with Miklas Born and Roberto Ferri, Div. TCE and Class TCR, Europe & Intercontinental
• Junior Cup with Miklas Born, Div. TCE and Class TCR, Europe & Intercontinental
• Ladies Cup with Jasmin Preisig
• Team Champion, Div. TCE and Class TCR, 24H Series Europe with #112 ahead of #1
• Team Champion, Div. TCE and Class TCR, 24H Series Intercontinents with #112, 3rd place with #1

Both in the division of all touring cars (TCE) and in the class TCR the participation was quite good. Red Carmel-Jordans and AC Motorsport were, like Autorama, in all races, Bas Koeten Racing and TOPCAR sport in some runs. All were always good for the win.

Stefan Tanner: "There were fewer participants overall in 2020, but the level in the TCR was still very high. It's all the nicer that we did so well in this 'strange' year, with partly difficult travel conditions."

In its second year of involvement in the 24H Series as a VW customer sports team, Autorama Motorsport, with technical support from Wolf-Power Racing, won all the touring car titles.Focus on Europe
Due to Corona, however, the Dubai 24 Hours in January was the only endurance race outside Europe. Because it was abandoned after seven hours due to heavy rain, it was also the most unusual and shortest. From January 14 to 16, 2021, Dubai will again be the season opener.

Last year's overall European winner Fabian Danz, newcomer Adrian Spescha and Finn Kari-Pekka Laaksonen finished fifth overall with the Cupra TCR from TOPCAR sport. Like Danz, the Bernese did not contest all the races, unlike his compatriots from Wetzikon.

A conciliatory end to the season for Allemann
Pole position in the field of just 17 cars was taken for the first time by the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of the American team CP Racing. But the overall victory was soon decided between the two Porsche 911 GT3 R cars from Herberth Motorsport.

While their teammates fell victim to gearbox damage about an hour before the end, the sister car with Daniel Allemann from Solothurn and the two Germans Ralf Bohn and Robert Renauer secured the third win of the season for the East German Team Herberth Motorsport.

Together with Renauer, Allemann celebrated the European title in the GT3 Pro category. After Dubai, however, this was only contested by more than two or three sports cars in Sicily.

Overall classification 12H Mugello 2020

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