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Title successes for Audi Sport customers in Asia

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- Sandy Stuvik is new Thailand Super Series Champion

- Second title for the Audi RS 3 LMS with Team New Faster in #TCR China

- VLN class title for Audi drivers at the Nürburgring

Audi Sport customer #racing celebrated two title successes in Asia with its customer teams. In the Thailand Super Series, Sandy Stuvik secured the drivers' title while his B-Quik #racing team won the teams' championship. In the #TCR China, Huang Chu Han won the drivers' title in an Audi RS 3 LMS, and his New Faster team the teams' classification.

Audi R8 LMS GT3

First title in Thailand: Team B-Quik #racing, an Audi Sport customer team since 2014, celebrated its first title success in the Thailand Super Series. By scoring his second victory this season and a runner-up finish together with Martin Rump in the season's finale at Buriram, Sandy Stuvik secured the drivers' title in an Audi R8 LMS. Following a retirement in the finale, team owner and driver Henk Kiks together with Daniel Bilski finished the season in third position of the standings. After Bilski and Kiks had crowned themselves AM Champions ahead of time, the teams' title also went to B-Quik #racing on the final weekend.

Runner-up finish in the finale: Team Phoenix #racing ended the 2019 season in the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring with a runner-up finish in the race and a class title. Vincent Kolb and Audi Sport driver Frank Stippler in an Audi R8 LMS only had to admit defeat by 6.7 seconds after four hours of #racing. This earned Stippler the runner-up's spot in the final SP9 Pro classification of the season and Phoenix #racing in the Speed Trophy. Steve Jans from Luxembourg, who together with Kim Luis Schramm and Michele Beretta in a second Audi R8 LMS from Phoenix #racing decided the Pro-Am classification of the last race in his favor, won the final SP9 Pro-Am classification ahead of 19 other drivers as a result. Michael Heimrich and Arno Klasen with Equipe vitesse fielded an Audi R8 LMS for the first time this year and won the SP9 Am classification of the #racing series.

Audi RS 3 LMS (TCR)

Second title success in the #TCR China: The New Faster team has won the #TCR China for the second time with the Audi RS 3 LMS. After Andy Yan decided the Chinese #racing series in his favor in 2017, the customer team from China was now successful with Huang Chu Han. In the finale at Zhuzhou, the Chinese only needed a fifth and a sixth position to win the #racing series with a four-point advantage. For the Audi RS 3 LMS, this marks the third drivers' title this year and the ninth in total since its maiden season in 2017. In the teams' classification, the title also went to the New Faster squad.

A victory and a second place at the Nürburgring: The Audi RS 3 LMS finished the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring with two podium successes. The Norwegian Møller Bil Motorsport team won the #TCR class by a razor-thin margin. Atle Gulbrandsen/Kenneth Østvold/Håkon Schjærin crossed the finish line with an advantage of 0.9 seconds after four hours of #racing. In spite of having contested only six of nine rounds, Schjærin/Østvold thus clinched the runner-up's spot in the final #TCR classification. In the SP3T class, Team MSC Sinzig e.V. im ADAC relied on an Audi RS 3 LMS in the VLN finale as well. Peter Muggianu/Roger Vögeli/Roland Waschkau finished runners-up.

Podium in France: In round seven of the French Trophée Tourisme Endurance club #racing series, Team Motorsport Développement claimed a spot on the podium. Mané Vignjevic/Pierre-Etienne Chaumat in an Audi RS 3 LMS saw the checkered flag as the second-best team in the T4 class after four hours of #racing at Magny-Cours.

Podium success in Portugal: In round four of the Campeonato Open de Velocidade de Portugal #racing series at Portimão, Gustavo Moura in his Audi RS 3 LMS finished the third, 50-minute race runner-up.

Coming up next week

01–03/11 Vallelunga (I), FIA Motorsport Games

02/11 Santa Cruz do Sul (BR), round 7, Endurance Brasil

02/11 Ruapuna (NZ), round 4, South Island Endurance Series

02–03/11 Motegi (J), round 8, Super GT

02–03/11 Shaoxing (CN), round 4, China Endurance Championship