The customer teams of Audi Sport customer racing clinched three titles in America and Asia last weekend. In addition to the Audi R8 LMS, the Audi RS 3 LMS TCR race car was successful as well.
Audi RS 3 LMS (TCR)
Title success with two victories: Paul Holton won the TC class title in the Audi RS 3 LMS in the finale of the Pirelli World Challenge. Three days after his 21st birthday, he delivered an impeccable performance at Laguna Seca. With Team C360R he secured the top spot on the grid twice, won both races and posted the fastest lap time in each of them as well. With that, the junior driver from Orlando, Florida, who was still racing as a rookie in the Audi Sport TT Cup in Germany last year, achieved the first title win of the Audi RS 3 LMS in North America. The first-ever title win in the customer racing touring car’s debut season had been celebrated three weeks earlier by Dmitry Bragin in the TCR Russia.
Third place in finale: Audi Team DreamDrive finished the 2017 season in the Super Taikyu series on podium. In the Japanese club sport racing series, Shozo Tagahara, Takuya Shirasaka and Naoto Takeda in the Audi RS 3 LMS on the circuit at Okayama took third place in their class. In the final classification of the series, Birth Racing Project remained the brand’s best-placed customer team, coming third with an Audi RS 3 LMS in the ST-TCR category.
