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Yellow ‘Lello’ is mellow on Merc swansong

FIA GT WORLD CUP

MACAU (CHN)

18-19 NOVEMBER

Raffaele Marciello signed off on his seven-year tenure as a Mercedes driver in the finest possible style in Macau by becoming the first-ever repeat winner of the FIA GT World Cup.

The Swiss-born Italian was unstoppable throughout both the 12-lap qualifying race and the 16-lap finale at the wheel of his Landgraf Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3, delivering the marque its fifth Macau GT triumph in a row (including the three non-FIA status races held during the COVID-19 pandemic) by 2.5 seconds ahead of Audi’s Edoardo Mortara.

It was the perfect

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