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Hoe werkt de GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup op Barcelona-Catalunya dit weekend?

Rappange will also get a grid penalty, actually. He was handed one Behaviour Warning Point for the incident in Free Practice 1, which puts the Dutchman's total on three BWPs. Rappange goes 5 places back on the grid of Race 1 tomorrow.

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Jop Rappange caused an avoidable collision with Marco Pulcini, when they were coming into the pits at the end of FP1. The KPX BMW driver receives a reprimand, but so does the Kessel Ferrari driver for suddenly driving unnecessarily slowly.

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Amaury Cordeel and Simon Reicher receive a 5-place grid penalty for Race 1 and Arthur Dorison receives a 5-place grid penalty for Race 2. The No. 21 Comtoyou Aston, No. 31 WRT BMW and No. 84 Eastalent Audi were speeding during the Red Flag in FP1.

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Dustin Blattner is unfit to race at Barcelona-Catalunya and will be replaced by Constantin Dressler in the No. 74 Kessel Ferrari. That's huge for the championship, considering Blattner is the Bronze Cup points leader in the combined Endurance Cup + Sprint Cup standings.

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Championship leader Bastian Buus tops Free Practice 1 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. A lap time of 1:40.389 puts the Lionspeed GP Porsche 0.219 seconds ahead of Alex Aka and 0.285 seconds ahead of the Winward Mercedes-AMG of Lucas Auer.

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Gustav Bergström returns to GT World Challenge, sharing the Silver Cup Porsche of Lionspeed GP with Nicolas Baert.

The razoon Porsche of Klaus Bachler and Simon Birch was a guest entry two weeks ago and is not present here at Barcelona-Catalunya.

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Sven Müller replaces Morris Schuring in the No. 2 Boutsen VDS Porsche and Joseph Loake replaces Marvin Kirchhöfer in the No. 59 Garage 59 McLaren due to a clash with Petit Le Mans.

Mikkel Gaarde Pedersen is back at Pure Rxcing, after Riccardo Pera did Zandvoort.

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Here is the entry list for the Sprint Cup season finale of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

It's 14 cars in the Pro class, 8 in the Gold Cup, 12 in the Silver Cup and 10 in the Bronze Cup.

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Joseph Loake is substituting for Marvin Kirchhöfer in that No. 59 Garage 59 McLaren, joining Dean Macdonald. Kirchhöfer is doing Petit Le Mans with Corvette and Pratt Miller Motorsports instead.

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Dani Juncadella tops Thursday testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. He sets a best time of 1:41.167 aboard the Verstappen AMG, 0.090 seconds ahead of the No. 48 Winward AMG and 0.094 seconds ahead of the No. 59 Garage 59 McLaren.

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Ben Barnicoat will be the third driver of the No. 3 Mercedes-AMG in Portimão alongside Chris Lulham and the four-time World Champion.

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🫡 TEAM BOSS MAX TO STEP IN AT PORTIMÃO: Max Verstappen will debut in GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve. Verstappen Racing drivers Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella are set to focus on #WEC instead.

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Philipp Eng and Marco Wittmann replace Farfus and 'Lello' to join Jake Dennis in the No. 98 ROWE Racing entry.

Neil Verhagen will substitute for Harper at Team WRT, sharing the No. 46 BMW with Max Hesse and Valentino Rossi.

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🔄 BMW SHUFFLE DUE TO WEC CLASH: Augusto Farfus, Dan Harper and Raffaele Marciello will miss the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup powered by AWS in Portimão next month, because the 6 Hours of Barcelona is on the same weekend.

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Silver-rated drivers under the age of 30 entered in each of the aforementioned championships are eligible for the prize. Tom Sargent currently leads the standings in America, James Yu Kuai in Asia, Oscar Targett in Australia and Jarrod Waberski in British GT.

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🏆 MOTOPARK TO OVERSEE CAR FOR PRIZE WINNERS: The four graduates of the SRO GT Academy - coming from #GTWorldAmerica, #GTWorldAsia, #GTWorldAustralia and #BritishGT - will take part in the 2027 CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa with a Mercedes-AMG of Team Motopark.

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4⃣ BMW M - 641 (-338)
5⃣ Audi Sport - 592 (-387)
6⃣ McLaren - 239 (-740)
7⃣ Aston Martin - 183 (-796)
8⃣ Lamborghini - 145 (-834)
9⃣ Ford - 84 (-895)
1⃣0⃣ Corvette - 0 (-979)

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📊 GT World Challenge manufacturers' championship after Eastern Creek and Zandvoort 🇦🇺🇳🇱

1⃣ Mercedes-AMG - 979 points
2⃣ Porsche - 920 (-59)
3⃣ Ferrari - 832 (-147)

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