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At the final round of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup, the HAUPT RACING TEAM finished the championship on the overall fifth position in its debut season. The #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Maro Engel and Luca Stolz competing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya showed an initial strong on-track performance with a fifth position in the first race but ran out of luck on Sunday.

The finale of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup will be taking place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this weekend with HAUPT RACING TEAM ranking in a promising championship position: Maro Engel and Luca Stolz are only 6.5 points shy of the leaders in the drivers' sprint classification despite having missed the races at the Circuit Zandvoort. With three races to go in Barcelona, the duo driving the #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 still has excellent chances of crowning the HRT debut season with the sprint title in the renowned SRO series. Engel / Stolz will once again be chasing points under the entry Mercedes-AMG Team HRT: with a good result, the duo could also collect valuable points in the teams' sprint championship where HRT currently ranks fourth overall. 

Mercedes-AMG Team HRT came home eighth and ninth to claim two top-ten finishes in an eventful Nürburgring 24 Hours, which was characterised by many set-backs. After the #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 crashed out of the race early on, the two remaining #2 and #6 Mercedes-AMG GT3 took up the mantel, gaining place after place to eventually finish in the top ten. The race was dominated by extremely unsettled weather and heavy rainfall. These adverse conditions forced race control to suspend the race after seven hours, with the action only resuming at 08:00 on Sunday morning.

As dawn broke on Sunday morning, the Mercedes-AMG Team HRT could already look back on an eventful 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. After the pole-sitters in the number 4 car had fallen foul of the adverse weather early on in the race, the remaining Mercedes-AMG GT3 – the number 2 and number 6 cars – launched a rousing fightback. At about 22:30, race control suspended the 48th ADAC TOTAL 24h Race at the Nürburgring, as the heavy rain and standing water on the track made it unsafe to continue racing. The field had to wait until 08:00 before it could take to the track again for a formation lap.

The Mercedes-AMG Team HRT has secured pole position for the 48th staging of the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Top Qualifying saw Maro Engel (GER) ensure that the #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 of the Mercedes-AMG Team HRT will start the legendary endurance race in the Eifel Mountains from the front. The number 6 car qualified 19th. The third Mercedes-AMG GT3, the number two car, will start from 20th after a crash in the second qualifying session required extensive repairs.

Following the accident during yesterday’s night qualifying, Haupt Racing Team (HRT) and Mercedes-AMG are doing everything to get the #2 Mercedes-AMG back on track. The common goal is for the car to be able to participate in today’s Top Qualifying 1.

Despite having a fighting chance for the title, the Haupt Racing Team has to be prepared not to start in the third round of the GT World Challenge in Zandvoort. Due to the current classification of the Federal Government of North Holland as a risk area and the associated requirements to minimise the risk of infection, there is no possibility for the Mercedes-AMG drivers Maro Engel and Luca Stolz to start. As both drivers will also be competing in the ADAC Total 24h race at the Nürburgring on the same weekend, they will not be able to commute between the race tracks according to the current C-19 guidelines. The Haupt Racing Team will therefore concentrate on the 24-hour race, where it will field three factory-fitted Mercedes AMG GT3s.  

The HAUPT RACING TEAM will compete in the legendary 24-hour race at the Nürburgring with three works-supported Mercedes-AMG GT3s and a top-class driver line-up.

At round 4 of the GT World Challenge Europe in Magny-Cours, the HAUPT RACING TEAM wins its first Sprint Cup race in the series and finishes third in the second race. The #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 with Maro Engel and Luca Stolz behind the wheel dominated the night race on Saturday from start to finish and added another impressive performance on Sunday to collect valuable points for the championship.

After their home race in the GT World Challenge Europe at the Nürburgring, the HAUPT RACING TEAM will be traveling to France this weekend where the second round of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup will be hosted at the Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.