GT sport: Many Swiss final successes
GT-SPORT Grandiose end to the season for several Swiss drivers: Fabio Leimer won the Ferrari World Final in Italy with the Zurich-based Octane 126 team, Emil Frey Lexus Racing won the GT Open in Spain and Fach Auto Tech won twice in the Porsche Supercup in Mexico. Fabio Leimer celebrated his biggest individual success since winning the GP2 series in 2013. After the man from Rothrist had [...]
Fabio Leimer celebrated his biggest individual success since winning the GP2 series in 2013. Having already won individual races in the past two years, the driver from Rothrist dominated the world final of the best Ferrari Challenge drivers from Europe, America and Asia in Mugello on Sunday.
The German Björn Grossmann ensured a double victory for the Octane 126 team from Wallisellen. Leimer led from start to finish.
After her victory in the last Challenge race in Imola, Fabienne Wohlwend was also able to take the wheel of a Ferrari 488 challenge from Octane 126 again, which she brought to the finish line in a sensational third place in the separate world final race of 40 non-professionals. She also won the Ladies' Cup.
The Emil Frey Lexus Racing Team entered the last two races of the International GT Open in Barcelona with a good chance of winning the title. Unfortunately, the Lexus RC F GT3 with Philipp Frommenweiler and Albert Costa retired with a gearbox failure on Saturday as a result of an unfair attack by an opponent.
The team from Safenwil thanked the driver from Thurgau and the Catalan for the night shift to repair the GT3 sports car with their fourth win of the season on Sunday. Unfortunately, this was only enough to secure third place in the championship due to the zero from the previous day.
Fach Auto Tech achieved a perfect end to the season in the Porsche Supercup at the Mexican GP. Matt Campbell, who joined the Schwyz-based team at his own request as the winner of the Porsche young talent promotion program, won both races.
With a total of four victories in eleven races, the Australian was as successful as the veteran Michael Ammermüller (D), who was crowned champion in Mexico, and better than the three-time runner-up Dennis Olsen (N). However, with six further podium finishes each, they were more consistent than Campbell, who only has one third place and three fifth places to his name.
Thanks to fourth place by the second Fach driver Josh Webster in the final race - his best result of the season - Alex Fach's team secured second place overall in the team standings behind Lechner Racing from Austria with a one-point lead.
