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Lismont and Montenegro complete GT World Challenge Europe Silver Cup title triple for BMW at Zandvoort

Matisse Lismont and Ignacio Montenegro clinched the Silver Cup hat-trick at Zandvoort, adding the Sprint Cup and Overall titles to their Endurance Cup crown.

Titles won by Lismont and Montenegro
3
Best Pro Cup result for Team WRT at Zandvoort
4th place
Bronze Cup finish for Farfus and Leung on Saturd
2nd place
Race events remaining in the season
2

What Happened

Joy and disappointment were closely intertwined at Zandvoort in the penultimate race weekend of the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup powered by AWS. Matisse Lismont (BEL) and Ignacio Montenegro (ARG) had a perfect weekend in the #30 BMW M4 GT3 EVO for Team WRT, taking a Silver Cup win and a second place to complete a hat-trick of titles: the Endurance Cup they had already won, plus the Sprint Cup and Overall championships, with two race events still to go. In the Pro Cup, all three Team WRT crews struggled; fourth place on Sunday for Valentino Rossi (ITA) and Max Hesse (GER) in the #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO was their best result, and no other Pro Cup crew managed a top-ten finish.

Silver Cup success against Pro Cup struggles for BMW at Zandvoort
Silver Cup - #30 Team WRT (Lismont/Montenegro)
Race 1 win, Race 2 second place; Endurance, Sprint and Overall titles secured
Pro Cup - #46 Team WRT (Rossi/Hesse)
12th on Saturday, 4th on Sunday - best BMW Pro Cup result
Bronze Cup - #991 Paradine Competition (Farfus/Leung)
2nd on Saturday, 5th on Sunday
Other BMW M4 GT3 EVO results at Zandvoort
  • Pro Cup: Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) and Charles Weerts (BEL) in the #32 retired on Saturday and finished 15th on Sunday, losing the lead in the Sprint Cup drivers' championship.
  • Pro Cup: Jordan Pepper (RSA) and Amaury Cordeel (BEL) retired from both races following collisions through no fault of their own.
  • Gold Cup: David Pittard (GBR) and Jop Rappange (NED) finished seventh and eighth in the #77 BMW M4 GT3 EVO from KPX Motorsport.
  • Team WRT nevertheless took the lead in the overall team standings.
“I'm really happy. Today we've finally done it: three out of three! We're the Overall, Endurance and Sprint champions! This means everything to us. We've worked so hard this season that we've earned this as a team. I think second place in the second race is down to the team. They pulled off an amazing pit stop. I'm really savouring this moment, because it's my first year in the GT World Challenge and we've already achieved our goal. A big thank you to the team and to Matisse! It's been a wonderful season so far!”
— Ignacio Montenegro, #30 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, Team WRT
“I'm over the moon! Second place and a win at Zandvoort! A huge thank you to the whole team, the mechanics and the engineers. I don't think we'd be where we are now without them. A massive thank you also to BMW M Motorsport for building such a fantastic race car. I enjoyed every lap. We'll be celebrating with the team tonight.”
— Matisse Lismont, #30 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, Team WRT
“It wasn't an easy weekend - especially for the team, who had their work cut out for them with all four WRT cars. Our #46 crew clocked the fastest pit stop twice - that's a brilliant achievement. With fourth place on Sunday, we got the most out of it.”
— Max Hesse, #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, Team WRT
“It was a really tough weekend for us. We didn't manage to get the car into the optimal working window in either qualifying session. When you start from so far back, it's difficult to achieve good results - although that would have been difficult anyway, as other cars seemed to be faster than us here. That's obviously not ideal for the championship, but we still have two races left at Barcelona.”
— Charles Weerts, #32 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, Team WRT

Why this matters

The result hands BMW M Motorsport a GT World Challenge Europe title sweep in the Silver Cup with two race events still to run, and lifts Team WRT to the top of the overall team standings. It was a tougher weekend for the marque's Pro Cup crews, whose best finish was fourth, and for the van der Linde/Weerts pairing, who lost the lead in the Sprint Cup drivers' championship ahead of the final two races at Barcelona.

Terms in This Story

Pro Cup
The top driver classification in GT racing, in which professional crews race for overall honours.
Silver Cup
A driver-classification category in GT racing, running in the same races as the top Pro class with crews grouped by their licence grade.
DNF
Did not finish - the classification given to a car that retires from a race before the end.
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