MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi claimed his maiden podium in today's last GT World Challenge Europe race at Brands Hatch 🥈
BMW factory driver Rossi finished runner-up in the second of the two GTWCE Sprint Cup races at the British venue aboard the WRT BMW M4 GT3 he shared with Maxime Martin.Rossi, who is in his second full season of car racing after calling time on his two-wheel career, finished just under four seconds behind the winning Attempto-run Audi R8 LMS GT3 shared by Ricardo Feller and Mattia Drudi at the end of the one-hour race. Martin started third in their BMW and pitted out of that position.
Weerts, who shared his BMW with fellow three-time Sprint Cup champion Dries Vanthoor, came back at Rossi in the closing stages, taking the chequered flag just 0.8s behind.Martin and Rossi benefitted from problems encountered by the two Audis that ran 1-2 in the early of the stages. Christopher Haase had shadowed them in the early stages aboard his Cometoyou Racing, which also lost time in the pits.
Boguslavskiy had qualified only 19th for race two and made little progress in the opening phase of the race, before a super-fast pitstop by ASP set Marciello up for his late charge. Marciello had dominated the first half of race one, building up a lead of eight seconds before pitting.
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