The 2022 season of the GT World Challenge Europe has closed its doors with a vibrant 3 Hours of Barcelona that has served to decide the last series champions. Let’s take a look at the winners of the season.
The 2022 season of the GT World Challenge Europe has been a complete success. SRO Motorsports has achieved its great goal of getting back to normal after several difficult seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With five endurance events (Endurance Cup) and five short-format events (Sprint Cup), the championship has gone according to plan and with a high dose of emotion.
Raffaele Marciello has been the absolute champion of the GTWC Europe in 2022, since the Italian driver has competed with different teammates in the Endurance Cup and in the Sprint Cup, so in the end the sum of points has been higher than that of any of the drivers with whom he has shared the wheel. the pilot of Akkodis-ASP has outscored Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts by 26 points, also achieving the team title for the French structure.
Dani Juncadella adds another great success to his record by scoring the absolute title of the Endurance Cup
However, the series has also had other absolute champions in the different subcategories in which the championship is divided. Thus, Thomas Neubauer and Benjamin Goethe have been the winners of the Silver Cup after beating Nicolas Schöll and Alex Aka. With better performance in the endurance tests than in the Sprint tests, the Team WRT drivers have also made it possible for the Belgian structure to take the team title.
For its part, Miguel Ramos has been the only winner in the Pro-Am category. The Garage 59 team rider had to wait until the last lap of the 3 Hours of Barcelona to emerge champion in a rather bizarre end to the race. In fact, Ramos has beaten Louis Machiels and Andrea Bertolini by just three points, great architects of the AF Corse team title.
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Endurance Cup
The Endurance Cup has a clear Spanish flavour, since Raffaele Marciello, Dani Juncadella and Jules Gounon have taken the title in Barcelona. In a tight finale against Antonio Fuoco, the only #71 Ferrari driver present in all rounds of the championship, the #88 Mercedes drivers won by two points, achieving in turn the teams title for Akkodis-ASP.
Oliver Millroy, Frederik Schandorff and Brendan Iribe have won the Gold Cup in another agonizing final against Rahel Frey, Sarah Boby and Michelle Gatting. In the Silver Cup the title has gone to Benjamin Goethe, Thomas Neubauer and Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer and for Team WRT. Success in the Bronze Cup has gone to Reema Juffali, Tim Muller, Valentin Pierburg and George Kurtz, while Louis Machiels, Andrea Bertolini and Stefano Constantini have scored the Pro-Am Cupalthough SPS has kept the team title.
Sprint Cup
Finally, the Silver Cup has been for the third consecutive year for Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts, success that was defined a few weeks ago in Valencia. With the Belgian duo signing a great performance, Team WRT took the title with some solvency against the Akkodis-ASP team, since Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy were the runners-up at the end of the year in the short format modality.
For its part, the Silver Cup of the sprint category remained in the hands of Ulysse De Pauw and Pierre-Alexandre Jeanboth allowing themselves the luxury of making their mark in Valencia once the title was secured and AF Corse had also won the team crown. The last title at stake, the Pro-Am Cup, was in the hands of Miguel Ramos and Dean MacDonaldalthough the team crown also went to AF Corse.
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