Four-Time Macau GT Winner Mortara Confirmed With Audi

Four-time Macau GT winner Edoardo Mortara has been confirmed for next month’s FIA GT World Cup return on the streets of Macau with Audi.

Mortara, who holds seven outright victories on the 6.2-km Guia Circuit, will pilot an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II entered by Audi Sport Asia Team Absolute.

“We are delighted to have secured Mr. Macau, Edo Mortara, for the world’s most important GT3 sprint race,” said Audi Sport customer racing Asia manager Alexander Blackie. “After Edo’s incredible fightback last year to finish second in the GT Cup, we have some unfinished business to address this year in Macau.”

Head of Audi Sport customer racing Chris Reinke added: “We are very pleased about the commitment of our Audi Sport partner in Asia.”

“Together with our Asian squad, Edoardo Mortara has a real chance of winning this highlight GT3 race of global attention. We are very much looking forward to the 70th addition of the famous Macau Grand Prix the FIA World Cup 2023.”

Mortara’s ‘Mr Macau’ moniker is richly-deserved. He made his debut on Macau’s street circuit in 2007, in the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix. In 2008, he finished second in the race, before taking two consecutive Grand Prix victories in 2009 and 2010, becoming the first driver ever to do so.

In 2011, Mortara earned Audi its first Macau GT Cup victory, going on to take two further wins in succession for the marque, and taking his unbroken winning streak to five.

After the race was awarded FIA GT World Cup status in 2015, Mortara took a fourth victory in 2017, to set the record for the most Macau GT Cup wins by a single driver.

His official Macau race win tally currently stands at seven, courtesy of his Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup support race win a decade ago.

Mortara is expected to form part of a multi-car entry from the German manufacturer for this year’s event, which returns to FIA GT World Cup status for the first time in three years.