Porsche Cup Suisse: Champion freestyle in Misano 🎥

The season finale of the Porsche Sports Cup Suisse could also go down in history as the Kapfinger Festival. At the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Johannes Kapfinger took maximum points in the GT3 Cup of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Suisse, and his twin brother Michael followed suit with pole position and two race wins in the Open GT field.

It does not get better than this
The Porsche Motorsport Club Suisse and Porsche Schweiz AG protégé (gallery left and center) celebrated his title win in the GT3 Cup in style. In the current 992-generation Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with around 510 hp, Johannes Kapfinger secured pole position, won both races and set the fastest race lap each time. The 20-year-old from Passau thus exceeded all expectations.

In the first race, Kapfinger only briefly gave way to Italy's William Mezzetti on the starting lap. Alexander Schwarzer (right gallery) saw the checkered flag in third place. However, the double winner from Mugello received ten penalty seconds and thus dropped back to fifth place behind Marc Arn and Peter Hegglin. The German also won the second sprint by 7.4 seconds on Mezzetti, followed by Hegglin, Burkard and Schwarzer. The latter, a former graduate of the Porsche Track Experience, is runner-up in the GT3 Cup.

Johannes Kapfinger: "That was the perfect end to the season. The GT3 Cup title means a lot to me. It will open important doors for my further racing career."

Exciting duel for GT4 title
The decision for overall victory in Group GT4 MR between Alexandre Mottet and Patrick Schetty went down to the home stretch in Misano. Defending champion Mottet traveled to the Italian Adriatic with a one-point lead and also had his nose just ahead in qualifying with his 425-hp Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR. In the first sprint, however, Schetty (lower gallery, left) finished third in class ahead of Mottet and thus took over the lead in the standings.

In the second race, only Patrick Hofmann in a 718 GT4 CS RS was sooner at the finish than Class 11 winner Schetty, while Mottet had to settle for 6th place. This meant that Schetty (podium center) was the new Group GT4 MR champion with the car prepared by Amag First Rennsport.

As the only starter in class 12, Alexander Walker reached the finish line in tenth place with his 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport without MR package. However, he was no longer able to challenge Pierre Hirschi - who did not compete in Misano - for the title in the GT4 Competition group.

All Kapfinger or what?
In the Open GT group of Porsche sports cars with driving aids, Michael Kapfinger, the twin brother of the GT3 champion, prevailed twice. Together with Michael Joos, they also won the two-hour night race to close the season. As the best Cayman drivers, Patrick Hofmann and Alex Fontana finished 19th overall with the RS model. Close on their heels were Remo Stebler and Yannick Mettler in the 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR. The race no longer counted for the championship.

Garski to the uniformity title without a fight
The new and old champion in the Porsche Drivers Competition is Nicolas Garski. With his 991 GT3 (lower gallery on the right), he was the only starter in both rounds of the Chrono classification, but he had no opposition to fear. In the Classic class without instruments, Heinz Schuoler won the regularity test over five laps ahead of Tommy Eriksson and Marius Hutmacher. Eriksson then triumphed in turn ahead of Kurt Spycher and Schuoler over nine laps. The fight for the vice-champion was decided between Xavier Penalba and Peter Meister. Fifth and sixth place were enough for Penalba to win by one point.

Results Porsche Cup Suisse Misano

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