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Edo Mortara, Augusto Farfus and Marco Wittmann raced in the Macau GT Cup

The racing season wasn’t over at the DTM finale in Hockenheim four weeks ago for some drivers. BMW’s Augusto Farfus and Marco Wittmann and Audi’s Edoardo Mortara were at the Macau GT Cup, which was held this weekend as part of the busy motor racing agenda in the difficult Guia Circuit.

Farfus and Wittmann raced for the AAI Rstrada team, at the wheel of two BMW Z4 GT3, as part of the manufacturer’s Sports Trophy Customer Racing programme. The Brazilian was fifth, whilst the 2014 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters drivers’ champion finished seventh. Edoardo Mortara raced with an Audi R8 LMS fielded by the Audi Race Experience team, being third at the finish line, in a race won by Mercedes’ Maro Engel.

Whilst Mortara saw an end to his winning strike, having visited the top spot of the podium in the three previous years, Augusto Farfus was particularly pleased with his weekend: “It was a good weekend for us. We were able to collect useful data to build up our experience of Macau. My race pace was very close to the leaders and we made big steps with the car. I am convinced that if we come back next year we can start on a much higher level and aim for big results.”

Having extensive experience at the Guia circuit from his WTCC days, Farfus didn’t hide his enthusiasm for the track: “It is by far the best street circuit in the world. It is extremely fast, quite long and offers a unique combination of corners. You have the ‘Melco’ hairpin, which is an extremely slow first gear corner, and then you have the superfast ‘Mandarin’ corner, both of them on the same circuit! I would compare Macau with the Nürburgring Nordschleife: everybody who goes there immediately falls in love with the circuit.”