GT World Challenge Asia - Suzuka🇯🇵debrief

Climax racing car number 22 (Pro-Am)

Lineup:
-Ralf Aron
-Wang Zhongwei

Race 1
Wang ➡️ Ralf

Qualifying:
Overall - 19th
In class - 8th

Results:
Overall - 20th
In class - 9th

Race 2
Ralf ➡️ Wang

Qualifying:
Overall - 2nd
In class - 2nd

Results:
Overall - 24th
In class - 10th

In race one it was a decent start from Wang who managed to keep the car in one piece during the start although they did drop down 4 positions. The pit window opened under safety car conditions and lot of drivers including Wang took the opportunity to pit. He swapped with Ralf handing over the car when it was 20th overall and 8th in class. Ralf came out of the pits 23rd and 8th in class. With 15 minutes left till the end an other safety car was deployed and it returned to the pits with 7 minutes to go. They ended up finishing the race in 20th overall (9th in class) unfortunately due to the multiple stops in the race they couldn’t progress further up the grid.

In race 2 it was a good start from Ralf who managed to move up to 12th on the first lap. The safety car was then deployed on lap 3 due to two Audis going off in the gravel. On lap 8 the race resumed and Ralf managed to hold onto 12th place during the restart before handing the car over to Wang when the pit stop window opened. Wang came out of the pits in 17th place (11th in class).
On lap 13 the safety car was deployed again and Wang moved up to 13th (8th in class). The safety car came in on lap 16 with just under 14 minutes left. On lap 17 an incident occurred which caused Wang to tumble down all the way to 27th (12 in class) A FCY was then called after another car went off track with 9 minutes to go. The safety car was then deployed with only 90 seconds to go and the race finished behind the safety car so the car finished in 24th (10th in class)

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