WRT believes that it didn’t have the fastest car in the World Endurance Championship’s LMGT3 class at Imola, but superb race management delivered a first series win for its BMW M4 GT3 as Augusto Farfus, Sean Gelael and Darren Leung led a team 1-2. Their #31 machine, qualified fourth by reigning British GT champion Leung, didn’t hit the front until lap 139 and led for a total of just 46 laps – 72 fewer than the championship-leading Manthey-run PureRxcing Porsche that finished third. But at several junctures in the weather-affected 6 Hours, WRT got the critical decisions right.
First of these was the timing of Leung’s second pitstop on lap 57, when he handed over to Gelael. It
