Seventh GT sprint title in Australia for Audi 05.12.2022: Yasser Shahin with Melbourne Performance Centre Champion in Australia Second title in a row for Yasser Shahin Audi privateer Yasser Shahin has won the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS as the best Pro-Am driver for the secon

Yasser Shahin with Melbourne Performance Centre Champion in Australia



Second title in a row for Yasser Shahin

Audi privateer Yasser Shahin has won the Fanatec GT World Challenge Australia powered by AWS as the best Pro-Am driver for the second time in a row. In the street race at Adelaide, the Australian decided the first sprint in the Audi R8 LMS together with Audi Sport driver Christopher Mies in his favor.

Tony Bates and Audi Sport driver Kelvin van der Linde followed in second place with a gap of just 0.333 seconds. Liam Talbot and Fraser Ross completed an Audi one-two-three. Talbot/Ross in the Team Shannons Insurance Audi then won the second race by three seconds after Bates/van der Linde, the original winners, had received a five-second penalty and hence dropped to second.



In race three, Shahin/Mies managed their second weekend win while second place went to Talbot/Ross. This marks the seventh time that Audi Sport customer racing has won the title in Australian GT sprint racing after 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021.

For Shahin, it was not only the second consecutive Australian title but the third overall at the wheel of an Audi R8 LMS. He has historically been the last winner of the Audi Sport R8 LMS Cup in Asia in 2019.

Troy Russell and Lee Burley’s Melbourne Performance Centre, as Audi Sport customer racing’s long-time contractual partner in Australia and as an entry team, won seven of eleven sprint races with the Audi R8 LMS in the past season.



Behind Shahin, Liam Talbot finished second in the Pro-Am standings, while Gary Higgon/Paul Stokell won the Amateur Drivers Championship. An Audi customer also prevailed in the GT Trophy standings: Michael Kokkinos from Team Launch Racing clinched the classification for older cars in an Audi R8 LMS ultra ahead of brand colleague Brad Schumacher.

In addition to six titles in the European GT World Challenge, Audi Sport customer racing has thus clinched three further titles in the Australian equivalent of the popular GT racing series.





Eva-Maria Becker - photos GSG IMAGES 2022