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Audi Sport customer racing’s touring car season continues to be a string of success. After a total of ten overall and class titles in Denmark, at European level, in Canada, the Middle East and the USA, further titles in the fiercely contested TCR Italy have now been added to the positive season tally. With the Audi R8 LMS GT4, another production-based product from Audi Sport helped customer teams in Europe and Asia to class victories and a title on the last weekend in October.
- Second title in a row for Audi Sport customer racing in TCR Italy
- DSG championship victory in Italy goes to another customer team of the brand
- Successes for the Audi R8 LMS GT4 in Germany, Japan and Portugal
Dramatic finale in Italy: The fans could hardly have wished for a more exciting outcome to the TCR Italy. Audi driver Nicola Baldan had come to Monza for the sixth round as the leader of the standings. In the end, however, Nicolas Taylor won the title in his TCR debut season in another Audi. As third in the standings, Taylor had more of an outsider’s chance, but he reshuffled the cards with his second win of the season in Saturday’s race. The 19-year-old up-and-coming driver had only driven the circuit for the first time two weeks previously. In the rain, the Canadian kept a cool head at the start behind the safety car and won from pole position. Second place went to Frenchman Teddy Clairet, who drove an Audi RS 3 LMS from the family-owned Team Clairet. The decisive race on Sunday began with a setback for Nicola Baldan. The overall leader had to park his car in the starting phase due to an electrical problem and dropped back to third place in the standings. The race victory was secured by Teddy Clairet. Nicolas Taylor had started on slicks on a wet track and saw the checkered flag in seventh place. This put him level on points with Honda driver Ruben Volt from Estonia. Both drivers recorded two victories in the course of the year, but Taylor had achieved the decisive better result with a second place in Sicily in June. After Franco Girolami, an Audi driver from Aikoa Racing, won the title last year, Paolo and Matteo Ansaloni’s PMA Motorsport team has now won the championship with Audi. Taylor is the second Canadian to win a TCR title in an Audi this year, after Richard Boake achieved the feat in the Sports Car Championship Canada in September. Championship success in the TCR Italy DSG for racing cars with dual-clutch transmissions also went to an Audi driver in Monza. Luca Franca from Aikoa Racing secured an early title win in Saturday’s race finishing second ahead of Luca Verdi, who at least saved third place in the rain with defective windshield wipers. On Sunday, Verdi from Team Planet Motorsport was the best Audi driver in second place and thus second in the standings.
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