Tresor Audi Drops Out With Three Hours to Go After Contact

Gulf 12 Hours contender Audi Sport Team Tresor saw its race end abruptly with three hours to go after contact between Dennis Marschall and the GT Cup class leader.

Marschall collided with Ivan Jacoma’s Centri Ticino Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, causing extensive damage to the right-front corner of his Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II which was running third.

The Audi Sport factory driver brought the Attempto Racing-run Tresor car back to the pits for a new tire but parked up at the side of the track during his out-lap.

AF Corse’s No. 71 Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 led the Intercontinental GT Challenge powered by Pirelli season finale with three hours remaining.

Antonio Fuoco jumped into the leading car and emerged from the pits with a 10-second advantage over Audi Sport Team Sainteloc, which was yet to make a scheduled pit stop. During earlier stints the Ferrari had been exiting the pits behind the No. 25 Audi.

The Sainteloc squad changed the brakes on its No. 25 Audi during a ninth-hour Full Course Yellow, following on from the No. 71 Ferrari earlier in the race.

AF Corse later changed the brakes on its No. 50 car under green flag conditions but the mechanics struggled to remove the pads, causing it to lose ground.

At the time of Marschall’s contact approaching nine hours, Philip Ellis inherited third for Pro-Am leader SunEnergy1 by SPS ahead of Luca Stolz of Al Manar Racing by GetSpeed.

Stolz needs to win the race in the No. 77 Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo to snatch the IGTC drivers’ title away from Daniel Juncadella, whose car retired in the second hour.