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2019 FIA GT World Cup

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Race details[1]
Circuito da Guia GP.svg
Date 17 November 2019
Official name SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit[2]
6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Distance Qualification Race
12 laps, 73.440 km (45.634 mi)
Main Race
18 laps, 110.160 km (68.450 mi)
Qualification Race
Pole
Driver  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Time 2:15.669
Fastest lap
Driver  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Rowe Racing
Time 2:17.302 (on lap 12)
Podium
First  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Second  Earl Bamber (NZL) Rowe Racing
Third  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Rowe Racing
Main Race
Pole
Driver  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Fastest lap
Driver  Earl Bamber (NZL) Rowe Racing
Time 2:17.182 (on lap 16)
Podium
First  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Second  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Rowe Racing
Third  Earl Bamber (NZL) Rowe Racing

The 2019 FIA GT World Cup (formally the SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup) was a Grand Touring (GT) sports car race held on the Guia Circuit in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau on 17 November. It was the fifth edition of the FIA GT World Cup and the twelfth time overall that GT3 cars had competed in Macau. The event promoter, the Automobile General Association Macau-China, appointed the motorsports organiser Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) to form a grid. The edition itself was made up of two races: a 12-lap qualifying race and an 18-lap main event.

Both the qualifying and main races were won by Raffaele Marciello of Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing from pole position. Marciello led every lap of each of the qualifying and main events to take Mercedes-Benz's third victory in the FIA GT World Cup since Maro Engel's 2015 win and Edoardo Mortara's 2017 triumph. Second place went to Porsche driver Laurens Vanthoor competing for Rowe Racing, while the podium was completed by his teammate Earl Bamber in third.

Background and entry list[]

The 2019 FIA GT World Cup was confirmed during a 6 December 2018 meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[3][4] It was an undercard race for the 2019 Macau Grand Prix.[3][5] The event occurred on the 6.120 km (3.803 mi) Guia Circuit in the streets of Macau on 17 November 2019 with three preceding days of practice and qualifying.[1][2] It was the fifth FIA GT World Cup and the twelfth overall GT3 event in Macau since 2008.[6][7] It was run by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation working with the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA),[8] the motor racing governing body.[5] In accordance with the event regulations, the manufacturers' championship was presented to the manufacturer of the car of the winning entrant.[6][9]

In order to enter the race, drivers had to have competed in a FIA-regulated championship race based on GT3 regulations over the prior two seasons or have earned significant experience in Grand Touring (GT) cars. Platinum or gold-licensed drivers were allowed to partake in the event.[10] For the 2019 event, the FIA allowed amateur drivers (called gentlemen drivers) to race by reintroducing the silver rated category class for the first time since the 2016 edition following lobbying by GT3 manufacturers and privateers.[4] Only Bronze rated competitors were not permitted to compete.[10] Entries were open from 2 July to 31 August.[11] The FIA released the entry list on 17 October.[12] There were 17 drivers (of which 11 were factory drivers) representing 13 nationalities and four manufacturers in Audi, BMW, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche.[N 1][13][14] This was an increase of two drivers from 2018 and included each of the four previous FIA GT World Cup winners: Maro Engel, Augusto Farfus, Edoardo Mortara and Laurens Vanthoor.[6][9][14]

After Sophia Flörsch's accident at the 2018 Macau Grand Prix, an FIA investigation resulted in various track safety improvements. The barriers between Reservoir and San Francisco Bend corners were realigned and SAFER barriers were retrofitted at Lisboa and San Francisco Bend turns. Hospital Bend turn's wall was moved back by 2 m (6.6 ft) and the photographers' bunker at Lisboa corner was dismantled.[8]

Practice and qualifying[]

Two half-an-hour practice sessions were held before the race on 18 November: the first on the afternoon of 14 November and the second on the afternoon of 15 November.[2] Earl Bamber in the No. 98 Rowe Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R lapped fastest early in the first practice session before improving to a 2 minutes, 17.058 seconds time on his final lap.[15] His teammate Laurens Vanthoor was second-quickest, followed by Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing's Engel and Raffaele Marciello and Mortara of Craft-Bamboo Racing in positions third through fifth.[16] Mortara had gone faster late in practice but he overshot the entry to Lisboa corner and made slight contact with the outside barrier.[15][16] Engel also went off the circuit but continued.[17] Bamber was again quickest in the second practice session with a 2 minutes, 17.360 seconds lap.[18] He was again followed by his teammate Laurens Vanthoor in second with Kelvin van der Linde of Audi Sport Team Rutronik, Phoenix Racing's Christopher Haase and Marciello placed third to fifth.[19] Weian Chen caused the first of two stoppages when he ran onto some oil and struck the Reservoir Bend turn barrier. Not long after, Engel stopped his car with apparent mechanical trouble. Once both cars were removed, the session resumed. A high-speed impact for Kévin Estre of Absolute Racing at the Mandarin Oriental Bend corner barrier prompted a second stoppage.[18]

Friday afternoon's half-hour qualifying session determined the qualification race's starting order through each driver's fastest lap times.[2][10] Track temperatures were lower due to the setting sun.[20] Marciello, the 2018 Blancpain GT Series champion, in the No. 999 GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 set a lap of 2 minutes, 15.699 seconds by going fastest in the final half of the lap at the session's conclusion to claim his second consecutive pole position for the race.[21][22] He demoted the highest-placed Audi driver Dries Vanthoor for Audi Sport Team WRT to second after lacking pace in practice. The Rowe duo of Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor were not as fast as they were in practice and they were separated by two-tenths of a second in third and fourth. Engel was third before falling to fifth late on and was joined by his teammate Mortara in sixth.[23] Audi drivers occupied seventh and eighth with Haase (who was fastest early on but sustained a puncture later on) ahead of Van Der Linde. Alexandre Imperatori and Charles Weerts of Team WRT occupied ninth and tenth.[22][23] Joel Eriksson of the FIST-AAI Team was the highest-placed BMW driver in 11th ahead of his brandmate Farfus in 12th.[21] Alessio Picariello qualified 13th for Craft-Bamboo Racing with Estre 14th, Roelof Bruins of Solite Indigo Racing 15th, Adderly Fong for Zun Motorsport Crew 16th and Chen completing the starting order in 17th.[1] Separate accidents involving Fong and Chen led to stoppages during qualifying.[21]

Qualifying classification[]

Final qualifying classification
Pos. Class[13] No. Driver Team Manufacturer Time Gap
1 P 999  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 2:15.669 –
2 G 25  Dries Vanthoor (BEL) Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT[N 2] Audi 2:15.972 +0.303
3 P 98  Earl Bamber (NZL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 2:16.066 +0.397
4 P 99  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 2:16.195 +0.526
5 P 888  Maro Engel (DEU) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 2:16.297 +0.628
6 P 77  Edoardo Mortara (CHE) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 2:16.316 +0.647
7 P 5  Christopher Haase (DEU) Germany Phoenix Racing Audi 2:16.475 +0.806
8 G 31  Kelvin van der Linde (ZAF) Germany Audi Sport Team Rutronik Audi 2:16.591 +0.922
9 G 911  Alexandre Imperatori (CHE) China Absolute Racing Porsche 2:16.934 +1.265
10 S 10  Charles Weerts (BEL) Belgium Team WRT[N 2] Audi 2:17.058 +1.389
11 P 91  Joel Eriksson (SWE) Chinese Taipei FIST-Team AAI BMW 2:17.408 +1.739
12 P 42  Augusto Farfus (BRA) Germany BMW Team Schnitzer BMW 2:17.606 +1.937
13 S 88  Alessio Picariello (BEL) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 2:17.690 +2.021
14 P 912  Kévin Estre (FRA) China Absolute Racing Porsche 2:17.940 +2.270
15 S 97  Roelof Bruins (KOR) South KoreaSolite Indigo Racing Mercedes-Benz 2:18.588 +2.919
16 S 7  Adderly Fong (HKG) China Zun Motorsport Crew Mercedes-Benz 2:19.200 +3.531
17 S 66  Weian Chen (CHN) China Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT Audi 2:19.928 +4.258
Source:[1]
Categorisation
Icon Class
P Platinum
G Gold
S Silver

Qualifying race[]

Earl Bamber wearing a red and white jacket and signing his autograph inside a book given to him by a spectator
Earl Bamber (pictured in 2017) finished second in the qualification race

The 12-lap qualifying race to set the starting order for the main race was scheduled to commence under air temperatures of 25 °C (77 °F) at 13:05 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00) on 16 November,[1][2][10] but was delayed for half an hour as a result of race management noticing a technical issue with the starting lights gantry.[24][25] Once the formation lap began, Picariello was unable to start his car and was moved off the grid into the pit lane where he started following quick troubleshooting.[24][26] At the start, Dries Vanthoor pulled into the slipstream of the pole position starter Marciello and attempted to get a run on the latter,[24][27] but he ended up hitting the Mandarin Bend corner wall at the exit of the turn on the outside with the rear of his car.[25] Dries Vanthoor sustained car bodywork damage and a left-rear puncture, which caused him to stop at the entry to Lisboa turn.[24][28] Further round the lap, Chen lost control of his car and stopped briefly before continuing.[24][26] The safety car was deployed for the first time in the event at the end of the first lap so that Dries Vanthoor's car could be moved to a safe area.[26][27][29] Racing resumed on lap four with Maricello pulling away from Rowe teammates Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor who were close behind one another in second and third.[24][29]

On lap five, Engel attempted to overtake van der Linde for fifth on the outside at the braking zone for Lisboa turn but made minor contact with the rear of the latter's car.[25][27][28][30] Engel lost control of his car,[24] hit the guardrail on the inside as he drove onto the rumble strips,[25][30] and struck the side of his brandmate Mortara.[29] Both Engel and Mortara retired due to the damage to their cars and the safety car was deployed for a second time so that the cars could be extricated.[24][26] Van Der Linde was able to enter the pit lane, where he retired as a result of car damage.[29] Haase and Farfus were promoted to fourth and fifth because of the incident.[28] Racing resumed with five laps to go with Marciello maintaining the lead over Bamber in second.[1][26] On the eighth lap, Farfus overtook Haase for fourth into Lisboa turn as the first three pulled away from the rest of the field.[1][24] Over the final laps, Bamber and Luarens Vanthoor appeared to be quicker in the track's tighter sections but could not match Marciello's overall pace.[29] Maricello thus held the lead for the rest of the event to claim victory and pole position for the main race.[24] Bamber was 0.866 seconds behind in second with teammate Laurens Vanthoor third. Farfus was fourth, having started in 12th, and Haase fifth. Imperatori, Weerts and Estre made up positions sixth through eighth.[27] Eriksson, ninth, had anti-lock braking system problems causing him to lock his tyres frequently and brake early for corners.[31] Fong, Bruins and Picariello were the final finishers.[1]

Qualification Race classification[]

Final classification of the qualifying race
Pos. Class[13] No. Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired
1 P 999  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 12 33:05.753
2 P 98  Earl Bamber (NZL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 12 +0.866
3 P 99  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 12 +1.538
4 P 42  Augusto Farfus (BRA) Germany BMW Team Schnitzer BMW 12 +8.744
5 P 5  Christopher Haase (DEU) Germany Phoenix Racing Audi 12 +9.521
6 G 911  Alexandre Imperatori (CHE) China Absolute Racing Porsche 12 +10.377
7 S 10  Charles Weerts (BEL) Belgium Team WRT[N 2] Audi 12 +11.446
8 P 912  Kévin Estre (FRA) China Absolute Racing Porsche 12 +11.720
9 P 91  Joel Eriksson (SWE) Chinese Taipei FIST-Team AAI BMW 12 +14.824
10 S 7  Adderly Fong (HKG) China Zun Motorsport Crew Mercedes-Benz 12 +15.334
11 S 97  Roelof Bruins (KOR) South KoreaSolite Indigo Racing Mercedes-Benz 12 +16.145
12 S 88  Alessio Picariello (BEL) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 12 +16.666
Ret G 31  Kelvin van der Linde (ZAF) Germany Audi Sport Team Rutronik Audi 5 Retired
Ret P 77  Edoardo Mortara (CHE) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 4 Retired
Ret P 888  Maro Engel (DEU) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 4 Retired
Ret S 66  Weian Chen (CHN) China Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT Audi 3 Retired
Ret G 25  Dries Vanthoor (BEL) Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT[N 2] Audi 0 Retired
Source:[1]

Main race[]

Raffaele Marciello sporting short hair and wearing a white fireproof vest bearing his name, country and two sponsors logos
Raffaele Marciello (pictured in 2017) led every lap of each of the qualification and main race to win the FIA GT World Cup.

The 18-lap main race commenced in dry weather conditions of 26 °C (79 °F) at 12:25 local time on 17 November.[1][2] Engel was penalised with a pit lane start as a consequence for the collision with Mortara in the qualification event.[30] Maricello made a fast start to maintain the lead as Laurens Vanthoor made a better start than Bamber and overtook his teammate for second.[32][33] The leading trio pulled away from the field,[34] as Bamber held off Farfus during the first lap.[35] On the second lap, Estre attempted to pass Imperatori on the inside into Lisboa corner but made contact with the side of his teammate's car.[35][36] Imperatori was sent into the Lisboa tyre barrier and retired from the event not long after.[35][37] On lap three, Dries Vanthoor passed Weerts for tenth.[1] Two laps later, Estre lost control of his car on the inside of the kerb through the quick Mandarin Oriental Bend corner.[20][32][36] He made high-speed contact with the guardrail wall at the exit of the turn in a incident identical to the one suffered by Dries Vanthoor the day before.[33][35][37] One of Estre's wheels detached from his vehicle and rolled across the circuit, though no other driver hit it, and debris from his car littered the track.[33][38] Estre stopped at the side of the track and the safety car was dispatched so that the Porsche could be moved off the track.[34][36]

Racing resumed at lap eight's conclusion following the removal of Estre's car from the track.[32] Farfus made a fast restart and used his higher straightline speed to briefly overtake the slower starting Bamber for third into the Mandarin Oriental Bend turn.[32][39] But heading into Lisboa corner, Bamber was able to reclaim third on the inside when Farfus had to slow for Laurens Vanthoor, who made slight contact with the rear of Marciello's car.[36][39] On lap 10, van der Linde passed Bruins for tenth.[1] With the gap more than a second on lap 13 as a result of Maricello recording personal best sector times,[34][39] Vanthoor allowed his teammate Bamber into second allowing Bamber to close up to Marciello.[37][38] Bamber was six-tenths of a second faster than Maricello and was close behind him.[33] But Bamber ran wide at the Police Bend corner and lost his left-hand side exterior wing mirror following minor contact with the barrier on the 15th lap.[33][36][38]

"I would like to thank GruppeM Racing for the amazing car and also Mercedes-AMG. Porsche have been really close the whole weekend so I am really happy that we finally won. I have always been really close to winning this race from Formula 3 when I was on pole and last year in GT, but Macau is always Macau and it's really special to make it all perfect and finally I did. It is just an amazing feeling – to win this it also means I can be regarded as one of the best!"

Raffaele Marciello on winning the 2019 FIA GT World Cup.[40]

When Marciello was cautious through the entry to the Melco hairpin, Bamber again closed up to him, making slight contact to the rear of his vehicle on the last lap.[32][38][39] In just his third FIA GT World Cup start, Marciello led all of the racing laps over the weekend,[38] achieving Mercedes' third victory in the event,[40] following Engel's 2015 triumph and Mortara's 2017 win.[38] Bamber honoured a pre-race agreement with Laurens Vanthoor by purposefully slowing through the R Bend corner and the start/finish straight to hand his teammate second as Bamber took third.[33][36][39] Farfus finished fourth, leading a close group of cars driven by Haase, Mortara, Eriksson, Dries Vanthoor, Engel and Van Der Linde in positions five through ten. The final classified finishers were Bruins, Weerts and Weian with Fong and Picariello the two other retirements.[1]

The 2020 edition of the FIA GT World Cup was due to be the sixth running of the race but it was cancelled by the FIA as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and was replaced by the Macau GT Cup, which was restricted to drivers from local racing series.[41][42]

Main Race classification[]

Final classification of the main race
Pos. Class[13] No. Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired
1 P 999  Raffaele Marciello (ITA) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 18 45:14.442
2 P 99  Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 18 +3.818
3 P 98  Earl Bamber (NZL) Germany Rowe Racing Porsche 18 +4.700
4 P 42  Augusto Farfus (BRA) Germany BMW Team Schnitzer BMW 18 +23.618
5 P 5  Christopher Haase (DEU) Germany Phoenix Racing Audi 18 +24.268
6 P 77  Edoardo Mortara (CHE) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 18 +25.063
7 P 91  Joel Eriksson (SWE) Chinese Taipei FIST-Team AAI BMW 18 +25.978
8 G 25  Dries Vanthoor (BEL) Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT[N 2] Audi 18 +26.573
9 P 888  Maro Engel (DEU) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-Benz 18 +27.170
10 G 31  Kelvin van der Linde (ZAF) Germany Audi Sport Team Rutronik Audi 18 +28.585
11 S 97  Roelof Bruins (KOR) South KoreaSolite Indigo Racing Mercedes-Benz 18 +36.577
12 S 10  Charles Weerts (BEL) Belgium Team WRT[N 2] Audi 18 +1:08.732
13 S 66  Weian Chen (CHN) China Audi Sport Asia Team TSRT Audi 16 +2 Laps
Ret S 88  Alessio Picariello (BEL) Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Racing Mercedes-Benz 10 Retired
Ret P 912  Kévin Estre (FRA) China Absolute Racing Porsche 4 Retired
Ret G 911  Alexandre Imperatori (CHE) China Absolute Racing Porsche 4 Retired
Ret S 7  Adderly Fong (HKG) China Zun Motorsport Crew Mercedes-Benz 1 Retired
Source:[1]

See also[]

  • 2019 Macau Grand Prix

Notes and references[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ GT3 car manufacturers Aston Martin, Bentley, Lamborghini, McLaren and Nissan were absent in Macau.[6]
  2. ^ a b c d e f Car No. 10 entered as Team WRT and car No. 25 entered as Audi Sport Team WRT.[13]

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