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2019 California 8 Hours

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Race details
Date 30 March 2019
Location Monterey, United States
Course 3.602 km (2.238 mi)
Race
Pole
Drivers Germany Mario Farnbacher
Belgium Bertrand Baguette
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Italy Honda Team Motul
Time 1:23.156
Podium
First Spain Miguel Molina
Australia Nick Foster
Australia Tim Slade
Taiwan HubAuto Corsa
Second Germany Maximilian Buhk
Germany Maximilian Götz
Italy Raffaele Marciello
Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Third France Mathieu Jaminet
Germany Sven Müller
France Romain Dumas
United States Park Place Motorsports

The 2019 California 8 Hours was the third edition of the California 8 Hours race held on WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on 30 March 2019. The race was contested with GT3-spec cars, "GT Cup" for one-make spec cars, GT4-spec cars. The race was organized by the Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO).

The third and final California 8 Hours was the second round of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge. The event was to be replaced by a race held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

The race was won by Taiwanese Ferrari team HubAuto Corsa. The Ferrari 488 GT3 completed 327 laps in the allotted eight hours, making a race distance of over 730 miles. Miguel Molina, Nick Foster and Tim Slade beat Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing by twelve seconds. American Porsche team Park Place Motorsports was third.

Lamborghini team ARC Bratislava won the GT Cup class, finishing 24 laps behind the HubAuto Corsa Ferrari and completed 678 miles. Winning the GT4 class was the PF Racing Ford Mustang, a further seven laps down, completing 662 miles.

Entries

GT3

Team Vehicle No Driver
Belgium Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo 10 Germany Christopher Haase
Belgium Dries Vanthoor
Belgium Frédéric Vervisch
Hong Kong KCMG Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 18 Switzerland Alexandre Imperatori
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
Italy Edoardo Liberati
35 United Kingdom Alex Buncombe
Australia Josh Burdon
Japan Katsumasa Chiyo
Taiwan HubAuto Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 27 Australia Nick Foster
Spain Miguel Molina
Australia Tim Slade
Germany Audi Sport Team Land Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo 29 Germany Christopher Haase
Germany Christopher Mies
Germany Markus Winkelhock
Italy Honda Team Motul Honda NSX GT3 30 Belgium Bertrand Baguette
Germany Mario Farnbacher
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
Germany Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 34 Netherlands Nicky Catsburg
Denmark Mikkel Jensen
Norway Christian Krognes
Germany BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M6 GT3 42 Brazil Augusto Farfus
Australia Chaz Mostert
Germany Martin Tomczyk
United Kingdom Mercedes-AMG Team Strakka Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 43 Austria Dominik Baumann
United Kingdom Adam Christodoulou
Denmark Christina Nielsen
44 United Kingdom Gary Paffett
France Tristan Vautier
United Kingdom Lewis Williamson
United Kingdom Bentley Team M-Sport Bentley Continental GT3 107 France Jules Gounon
United Kingdom Steven Kane
South Africa Jordan Pepper
108 Spain Lucas Ordóñez
Finland Markus Paltalla
Belgium Maxime Soulet
Hong Kong Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 888 Netherlands Yelmur Buurman
Germany Maro Engel
Germany Luca Stolz
999 Germany Maximilian Buhk
Germany Maximilian Götz
Italy Raffaele Marciello
United States Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R 911 France Romain Dumas
France Mathieu Jaminet
Germany Sven Müller
United States Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R 912 Australia Matt Campbell
Norway Dennis Olsen
Germany Dirk Werner

GT Cup

Team Car No. Drivers
Slovakia ARC Bratislava Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo 88 Slovakia Miro Konopka
Poland Andrzej Lewandowski
Slovakia Zdeno Mikulasko

GT4

Team Car No. Drivers
United States PF Racing Ford Mustang GT4 41 United States Jade Buford
United States Chad McCumbee
United States James Pesek
United States TRG Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR 67 United States Jason Alexandridis
United States Chris Bellomo
United States Spencer Pumpelly
United States RHC Jorgensen/Strom by Strom Motorsport BMW M4 GT4 113 United States Daren Jorgensen
United States Jon Miller
United States Brett Strom

Qualifying

Pole Shootout

These were the 10 fastest cars in qualifying[1]

Pos Driver Team Car Time Dif
1 30 Germany Mario Farnbacher Honda Team Motul Acura NSX GT3 1:23.156
2 35 United Kingdom Alex Buncombe KCMG Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 1:23.342 +0.186
3 10 Belgium Dries Vanthoor Audi Sport Team WRT Audi R8 LMS Evo 1:23.420 +0.264
4 27 Australia Nick Foster HubAuto Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3 1:23.459 +0.303
5 912 Australia Matt Campbell Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R 1:23.528 +0.372
6 34 Denmark Mikkel Jensen Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 1:23.533 +0.377
7 42 Brazil Augusto Farfus BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M6 GT3 1:23.544 +0.388
8 911 France Mathieu Jaminet Park Place Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R 1:23.627 +0.471
9 18 Switzerland Alexandre Imperatori KCMG Nissan GT-R Nismo GT3 1:23.673 +0.517
10 999 Italy Raffaele Marciello Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 1:29.714 +0.558

Notes

References

  1. ^ "California 8 Hours Intercontinental GT Challenge POLE SHOOTOUT - CLASSIFICATION - FINAL" (PDF). TSL Timing. Retrieved 27 May 2020.


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