2015 FIA GT World Cup

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Race details
Date 22 November 2015
Official name 62nd Suncity Group Macau Grand Prix
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit
6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Distance Qualifying Race
12 laps, 61.200 km (38.028 mi)
Main Race
14 laps, 85.684 km (53.242 mi)
Qualifying Race[1]
Pole[2]
Driver Germany Stefan Mücke Craft-Bamboo Racing
Time 2:18.032
Fastest Lap
Driver Germany Stefan Mücke Craft-Bamboo Racing
Time 2:18.930 (on lap 10)
Podium
First Germany Maro Engel Mercedes AMG Driving Academy
Second Italy Edoardo Mortara Audi Sport Team Phoenix
Third Germany Stefan Mücke Craft-Bamboo Racing
Main Race[3]
Pole
Driver Germany Maro Engel Mercedes AMG Driving Academy
Fastest Lap
Driver Germany Stefan Mücke Craft-Bamboo Racing
Time 2:19.736 (on lap 11)
Podium
First Germany Maro Engel Mercedes AMG Driving Academy
Second Germany René Rast Audi Sport Team WRT
Third Germany Stefan Mücke Craft-Bamboo Racing

The 2015 FIA GT World Cup was the race's inaugural edition and the eighth time Grand Touring (GT) sports car machinery participated in Macau's autonomous territory. On November 22, it was staged in the streets of the city as a non-championship race as part of the GT Asia Series in GT3-spec cars. The Automobile General Association Macau-China appointed the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) to assist in establishing a grid. The race itself consisted of two races: a 12-lap qualification race that determined the starting grid for the 14-lap main race.

Mercedes AMG Driving Academy driver Maro Engel won the main race from pole position after winning the Qualification Race the previous day after on-track victor Edoardo Mortara was penalised ten seconds for brake testing him. Mortara accelerated faster than Engel during the rolling start, but he quickly lost the lead to the former. Engel then dominated the rest of the race, which was stopped two laps early due to a multi-car accident behind the safety car, and the result was recalculated two laps back. René Rast finished second in his Audi R8 LMS, while Stefan Mücke completed the podium in his Craft-Bamboo Racing entered Aston Martin Vantage V12.

Entry list and rules[edit]

To enter the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, drivers had to compete in a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)-regulated championship based on GT3 regulations.[4] On 11 September 2015, Audi, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, McLaren and Porsche were announced as the five manufacturers accepted to enter the event that was open to any car model meeting GT3 rules.[5] Manufacturers could enter up to three drivers through privateer teams,[5] and the teams representing manufacturers could field both gold and platinum ranked drivers;[6] bronze and silver-rated entrants were considered on a case-by-case basis by the FIA GT World Cup Committee.[4] On October 7, 2015, the FIA GT World Cup entry list was released. The first list of participants had 22 drivers, including 2014 Macau GT Cup race winner Maro Engel, two-time Macau Grand Prix victor Edoardo Mortara, and 24 Hours of Le Mans co-winner Earl Bamber.[7] René Rast, a World Endurance Championship participant, was called in as a late replacement for Laurens Vanthoor, who withdrew from the race on doctor's orders after injuring his hip at the Misano World Circuit's Blancpain Sprint Series round.[8]

Background[edit]

The 2015 FIA GT World Cup was the event's maiden running and the eighth time Grand Touring (GT) cars contested in Macau. It took place on November 22, 2015, at the 6.2 km (3.9 mi) 22-turn Guia Circuit, after three days of practise and qualifying.[9] The motorsport promoter Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) elected not to renew its contract with the FIA two years before the 2015 FIA GT World Cup, and in early 2013, the SRO's founder, Stéphane Ratel, proposed creating a race for the finest teams and drivers.[10][11] These proposals were dormant for a while until an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in Doha saw the idea resurface and eventually confirmed by the sport's governing body on 20 March 2015.[10] It was the first collaboration between Ratel and the FIA since the FIA GT1 World Championship disbanded.[12] The FIA GT World Cup was granted its status after the World Touring Car Championship stopped travelling to Macau,[12] and it replaced the Baku World Challenge which was discontinued that year when Formula One announced it would hold a race in the city from 2016.[13] The Automobile General Association Macao-China, the race's promoter, asked the SRO to assist in forming a grid.[13]

Practice and qualifying[edit]

Stefan Mücke (pictured in 2011) took pole position in the closing minutes of qualifying.

There was one 30-minute practice session each on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning before Sunday's race.[14] Renger van der Zande set the quickest lap for the Mercedes AMG Driving Academy SLS GT3 in the first practise session at 2 minutes, 20.796 seconds, two-tenths of a second faster than anybody else. In second place was his brandmate Engel. Mortara finished third in the lone Audi Sport Team Phoenix R8 LMS entry. Darryl O'Young's Aston Martin V12 Vantage finished fourth. Bamber was the fastest Porsche competitor, finishing fifth. Positions six through ten were filled by Stefan Mücke, André Couto, Keita Sawa, Rast, and Richard Lyons.[15] Engel led for the majority of the second practice session until Mücke passed him with a time of 2 minutes, 20.082 seconds, the fastest lap of the weekend at the time. Van Der Zande finished second, 0.021 seconds slower, with Adderly Fong third Engel was fourth, and Bamber fifth, repeating his first practise session performance.  Positions six through ten were filled by O'Young, Mortara, Álvaro Parente, his teammate Kévin Estre, and Rast.[16]

Friday afternoon's half-hour qualifying session determined the starting order for the qualification race through each driver's fastest lap times.[4][14] Before he hit an inside kerbstone at Mandarin Corner and lost control of his car, which then drifted into a barrier (the first of three stoppages), Engel was the early leader in qualifying.[17][18] Engel took responsibility for the collision and apologised to his team.[17] Van Der Zande's crash into a wall at Paiol caused qualifying to be turn red-flagged qualifying for the second time to repair the barriers.[18][19] With less than 12 minutes remaining. Audi devised a strategy to let Mortara to drive in clear air for a pole position effort. But Cuoto experienced oversteer and severely damaged his car in an incident at Mandarin curve, which ricocheted between the barriers.[18][19] Cuoto's crash, which left him unhurt, led to the session's third and last interruption. With six minutes left in qualifying, Mortara started recording fast sector times to take provisional pole before Mücke passed him with a lap of 2 minutes, 18.032 seconds.[18] Mücke was joined on the grid's front row by Mortara.[17] Engel's accident left him in third. Rast was fourth, Van Der Zande fifth and O'Young sixth. O'Young's teammate Lyons was seventh. Bamber, Fong and Parente were eighth to tenth, respectively.[18] Estre was the fastest driver not to qualify in the top ten, ahead of teammate Cuoto, Sawa, Marchy Lee, the Thai duo of Pasin Lathouras and Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak, Dylan Derdaele, Jeffrey Lee, Weng Sun Mok and Philip Ma. John Shen and Jacky Yeung completed the 22 qualifiers.[18]

Qualifying classification[edit]

Final qualifying results
Pos. Class No. Driver Team Manufacturer Time Gap
1 P 97 Germany Stefan Mücke Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 2:18.032 —
2 P 6 Italy Edoardo Mortara Germany Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi 2:18.144 +0.112
3 P 1 Germany Maro Engel Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 2:18.168 +0.136
4 P 7 Germany René Rast Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT Audi 2:18.315 +0.283
5 G 2 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 2:18.746 +0.714
6 S 55 Hong Kong Darryl O'Young Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 2:19.427 +1.395
7 G 99 United Kingdom Richard Lyons Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 2:19.637 +1.605
8 G 19 New Zealand Earl Bamber Hong Kong LKM Racing Porsche 2:19.687 +1.655
9 S 8 Hong Kong Adderly Fong Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 2:19.972 +1.940
10 P 25 Portugal Álvaro Parente China FFF Racing Team McLaren 2:20.048 +2.016
11 P 15 France Kévin Estre China FFF Racing Team McLaren 2:20.255 +2.223
12 G 5 Macau André Couto China FFF Racing Team McLaren 2:20.584 +2.552
13 S 88 Japan Keita Sawa Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 2:21.136 +3.104
14 S 30 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Hong Kong Audi Hong Kong Audi 2:21.679 +3.647
15 S 10 Thailand Pasin Lathouras Italy AF Corse Ferrari 2:22.249 +4.217
16 S 9 Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Thailand Est Cola Racing Team Porsche 2:25.318 +7.286
17 S 20 Belgium Dylan Derdaele Japan Gulf Racing JP Porsche 2:26.550 +8.518
18 B 33 Chinese Taipei Jeffrey Lee Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 2:26.952 +8.920
19 B 3 Singapore Weng Sun Mok Singapore Clearwater Racing McLaren 2:28.204 +10.172
20 S 98 Hong Kong Philip Ma Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 2:30.907 +12.875
21 B 68 Canada John Shen Hong Kong Modena Motorsports Porsche 2:34.703 +16.671
22 B 77 Hong Kong Jacky Yeung Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 2:35.302 +17.270
Source:[2][20]
Categorisation
Icon Class
P Platinum
G Gold
S Silver
B Bronze

Qualifying race[edit]

Maro Engel (pictured in 2009) won the qualification race to start from pole position in the main race which he won.

At 12:15 Macau Standard Time (UTC+08:00), the qualifying race to set the main race's starting order began under dry and cloudy conditions with the air and track temperatures at 26 °C (79 °F) and 27 °C (81 °F).[1][4][14] At the start, Mücke stopped Mortara's overtake to retain the lead into Mandarin turn, before Engel used his straightline speed to pass Mortara for second position approaching Lisboa corner.[21][22] Rast dropped to fifth as brandmate Marchy Lee gained another position before turning into Lisboa corner.[23] Despite matching his pace earlier in the race, Engel was unable to challenge Mücke because the leader controlled his speed; both men pulled away from the trailing Mortara and Van Der Zande. Fong lost control of his Bentley Continental GT and crashed heavily at the Solitude Esses on the third lap. The safety car was deployed a lap later to neutralise the order because his car was stranded in the centre of the track.[21][22]

At the lap eight restart, Mücke got away cleanly to lead the race back up to speed, with Engel and Mortara close behind. Simultaneously, fourth-placed Van Der Zande sought but failed to move up the order.[21] Engel had to take evasive action when Mücke accelerated and then abruptly braked. After the race, Engel expressed his surprise at Mücke's actions.[24] The leaders were unable to execute any further manoeuvres, and the margins at the front grew progressively until the qualification race ended. Mücke led the race from start to finish. He was then found to have brake tested Engel in violation of the regulations and was given a ten-second time penalty.[21][22] Engel was given the victory and took pole position for the main race. Mortara joined him on the grid's front row. Mücke's penalty demoted him to third place. Van Der Zande was fourth, Rast was fifth, and Lyons was sixth. Following closely were Bamber, O'Young, Parente, and Estre, who rounded out the top ten. Sawa, Marchy Lee, Lathouras, Inthraphuvasak, Derdaele, Jeffrey Lee, Sun Mok, Sheng, Yeng, Cuoto, and Ma were the final 21 classified finishers.[1]

Qualifying race classification[edit]

Classification of the qualifying race
Pos. Class No. Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired
1 P 1 Germany Maro Engel Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 12 34:38.768
2 P 6 Italy Edoardo Mortara Germany Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi 12 +5.212
3 P 97 Germany Stefan Mücke Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 12 +8.303
4 G 2 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 12 +8.331
5 P 7 Germany René Rast Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT Audi 12 +9.112
6 G 99 United Kingdom Richard Lyons Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 12 +10.312
7 G 19 New Zealand Earl Bamber Hong Kong LKM Racing Porsche 12 +11.225
8 S 55 Hong Kong Darryl O'Young Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 12 +12.375
9 P 25 Portugal Álvaro Parente China FFF Racing Team McLaren 12 +13.004
10 P 15 France Kévin Estre China FFF Racing Team McLaren 12 +13.634
11 S 88 Japan Keita Sawa Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 12 +20.312
12 S 30 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Hong Kong Audi Hong Kong Audi 12 +22.110
13 S 10 Thailand Pasin Lathouras Italy AF Corse Ferrari 12 +22.290
14 S 9 Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Thailand Est Cola Racing Team Porsche 12 +36.772
15 S 20 Belgium Dylan Derdaele Japan Gulf Racing JP Porsche 12 +56.464
16 B 33 Chinese Taipei Jeffrey Lee Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 12 +1:01.009
17 B 3 Singapore Weng Sun Mok Singapore Clearwater Racing McLaren 12 +1:01.682
18 B 68 Canada John Shen Hong Kong Modena Motorsports Porsche 12 +1:17.517
19 B 77 Hong Kong Jacky Yeung Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 12 +1:51.644
20 G 5 Macau André Couto China FFF Racing Team McLaren 11 +1 Lap
21 S 98 Hong Kong Philip Ma Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 11 +1 Lap
Ret S 8 Hong Kong Adderly Fong Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 2 Accident
Source:[20][1]

Main race[edit]

The race began under dry and sunny weather at 12:55 local time.[3][14] The air temperature was 28 °C (82 °F) and a track temperature at 28 °C (82 °F).[3] Fong withdrew from the race because his chassis was too damaged from the previous day's qualification race crash.[22] Mortara made a quick getaway after the race's rolling start and stopped Engel's initial pass to take the lead before the Mandarin Oriental corner. Mortara lost the lead to Engel when he steered into the inside as they approached the Reservoir Kink bend. After a brisk start, his teammate van der Zande took second position.[25][26] Mücke then took third from Mortara before Lisboa corner.[27] Estre collided with Lyon's rear at the turn, and both drivers retired. After crashing into a barrier at San Francisco Bend, Bamber retired on the lap.[27] At the end of the first lap, Engel led teammate Van der Zande, followed by, Mortara, Mücke, Parente, O'Young, Sawa, Marchy Lee and Lathouras. The first five were covered by five seconds with the rest of the field 18 seconds behind them.[28]

It's unbelievable, I’m overjoyed as the best GT drivers were up against each other in this race, so I’m proud to be the first winner of the FIA GT World Cup! But I’m especially proud of my team. I made a big mistake in qualifying on Friday and I thought right there, standing in the wall, that my weekend might be over and I blew the opportunity we had here. To win this race is amazing because I just love this place, I love this track. I had to make a really good start and I knew I had to hold the inside line and stay in front or try to get ahead in the Mandarin corner, otherwise it would be difficult. I just managed to pass Edoardo Mortara on the left-hand side, so that was the key to retaking the lead. From there I really put my head down; I just focused on my driving, trying to keep cool and open up the gap.

Maro Engel, on winning the inaugural FIA GT World Cup.[28]

At the midway, Derdaele's car had a punctured tyre and retired at Lisboa curve, while Parente lost sixth place to O'Young by having a better exit out of a turn.[28] Meanwhile, Engel extended his advantage over second-placed Van Der Zande when the course of the race altered on lap 12.[27] Van Der Zande was slowed by traffic, allowing Mücke to challenge him for second place heading into Lisboa bend.[25] As a result of the manoeuvre, Mücke struck Van der Zande's vehicle from behind, causing debris to land in Mücke's left rear wheel.[29] The two collided as Mücke passed Van Der Zande on the inside as they approached Lisboa corner on the next lap.[27] Both drivers ran wide under braking, allowing Rast and Mortara of Audi into second and third places.[29] When the safety car was deployed to close the field down following an accident on lap 14, Engel's eight-second lead over Mortara was reduced to nothing.[26] Inthraphuvasak crashed at Paiol corner, leaving his vehicle stranded in the middle of the course.[29]

As everyone waited for additional laps at racing speed behind the safety car, a multi-vehicle accident occurred at Moorish Hill with 2½ laps to go.[26][27] The lapped Shen struck the tyre barrier, and every driver behind him collided with each other since he blocked the course.[28][29] Race control decided to stop the race and not restart it, counting back the result by two laps.[28][29] Engel won the first FIA GT World Cup, his second consecutive victory in Macau after winning the GT event in 2014.[30] Mortara finished second before a 20-second time penalty was enforced by the International Sporting Code for being deemed to have jumped the start,[28][31] promoting Rast and Mucke to second and third.[25] Off the podium, Van Der Zande, O'Young, Mortara, Parente, Marchy Lee, Sawa and Lathouras, Couto, Jeffrey Lee, Sun, Shen, Ma, Yueng and Inthraphuvasak were the final finishers.[3]

Main race classification[edit]

Classification of the main race
Pos. Class No. Driver Team Manufacturer Laps Time/Retired
1 P 1 Germany Maro Engel Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 14 33:28.832
2 P 7 Germany René Rast Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT Audi 14 +2.900
3 P 97 Germany Stefan Mücke Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 14 +3.690
4 G 2 Netherlands Renger van der Zande Germany Mercedes AMG Driving Academy Mercedes-Benz 14 +4.422
5 S 55 Hong Kong Darryl O'Young Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 14 +17.444
6[a] P 6 Italy Edoardo Mortara Germany Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi 14 +22.321
7 P 25 Portugal Álvaro Parente China FFF Racing Team McLaren 14 +24.880
8 S 30 Hong Kong Marchy Lee Hong Kong Audi Hong Kong Audi 14 +37.248
9 S 88 Japan Keita Sawa Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 14 +30.404
10 S 10 Thailand Pasin Lathouras Italy AF Corse Ferrari 14 +40.354
11 G 5 Macau André Couto China FFF Racing Team McLaren 14 +1:32.315/Accident
12 B 33 Chinese Taipei Jeffrey Lee Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 14 +2:29.634
13 B 3 Singapore Weng Sun Mok Singapore Clearwater Racing McLaren 14 +3:08.350
14 B 68 Canada John Shen Hong Kong Modena Motorsports Porsche 13 +1 Lap/Accident
15 S 98 Hong Kong Philip Ma Hong Kong Absolute Racing Audi 13 +1 Lap
16 B 77 Hong Kong Jacky Yeung Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley 13 +1 Lap
17 S 9 Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak Thailand Est Cola Racing Team Porsche 12 Accident
Ret S 20 Belgium Dylan Derdaele Japan Gulf Racing JP Porsche 7 Puncture
Ret G 19 New Zealand Earl Bamber Hong Kong LKM Racing Porsche 1 Accident Damage
Ret P 15 France Kévin Estre China FFF Racing Team McLaren 1 Collision Damage
Ret G 99 United Kingdom Richard Lyons Hong Kong Craft-Bamboo Racing Aston Martin 0 Collision
DNS[b] S 8 Hong Kong Adderly Fong Hong Kong Bentley Team Absolute Bentley — Accident
Source:[20][3]
Notes
  1. ^ Mortara had originally placed at second, but a twenty-second time penalty was later applied due to jump start.[28]
  2. ^ Adderly Fong did not start the Main Race, because his Bentley had too much damage after a crash the day before in the Qualifying Race.[22]

FIA GT World Cup for Manufacturers[edit]

The FIA GT World Cup for Manufacturers award was presented to the manufacturer supplying the cars with a manufacturer entry with the highest number of points after adding the points of its two best cars awarded based on the result of the Main Race.[4]

Scoring system[edit]

To be classified and earn points, entries had to complete 90 per cent of the winning car's race distance. The pole position winner received no points.[4]

Main Race points[edit]

Points scoring system for the FIA GT World Cup
Position  1st   2nd   3rd   4th   5th   6th   7th   8th   9th   10th 
Points 25 18 15 12 10 8 6 4 2 1
Final FIA GT World Cup for Manufacturers standings
Pos. Manufacturer Car Drivers Macau MAC Total
QR MR
1 Germany Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Germany Maro Engel 1 1 37
Netherlands Renger van der Zande 4 4
2 Germany Audi R8 LMS Hong Kong Marchy Lee 12 81 26
Italy Edoardo Mortara 2 6
Germany René Rast 5 2
3 United Kingdom Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3 United Kingdom Richard Lyons 6 Ret1 25
Germany Stefan Mücke 3 3
Hong Kong Darryl O'Young 8 5
4 United Kingdom McLaren 650S GT3 Macau André Couto 20 11 6
France Kévin Estre 10 Ret1
Portugal Álvaro Parente 9 7
5 Germany Porsche 997 GT3-R New Zealand Earl Bamber 7 Ret1 0
Belgium Dylan Derdaele 15 Ret
Thailand Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak 14 17†
Key
Colour Result
Gold Race winner
Silver 2nd place
Bronze 3rd place
Green Points finish
Blue Non-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
Purple Did not finish (Ret)
Black Disqualified (DSQ)
Excluded (EX)
White Did not start (DNS)
Race cancelled (C)
Withdrew (WD)
Blank Did not participate

Bold – Pole

Italics – Fastest Lap

Notes
  • † – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.[4]
  • 1 – Only the two best highest finishing cars of a manufacturer are able to score points. The result of the lowest finishing car is not included.[4]

See also[edit]

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