+ Result: Race 2, Misano
Paul Petit and Gregory Guilvert took a controlled victory in the final race at Misano, scoring both their first win of the season and a first for Audi in 2026.
Having dominated last year, the French Audis have had a tougher time this season, but Petit and Guilvert made no mistake, leading throughout from pole ahead of the sister car of Robert Consani and Benjamin Lariche, sealing a hard-earned one-two for Team Speedcar.
The team also celebrated a Pro-Am victory with Sacha Bottemanne and Viny Beltramelli running well clear of the class opposition. Mikael and Christoffer Brunnhagen finally claimed their breakthrough Am class win in the GR Sweden Supra after troubles for their closest rivals.
Audi leads from the front
After several near misses already this season, Team Speedcar was determined not to let a win slip this time around with both its Silver class R8s starting from the front row.
Petit got the power down well to lead the pack from pole, while Consani faced an early fight with the Race 1-winning Elite McLaren of Charlie Hart, which briefly slipped into second on lap one before Consani fought back past. That would be as good as it would get for the Artura, as something let go on the rear-right of the car and consigned Hart back to the pits to retire.
Up front Petit used Consani’s distraction to pull a gap of a few seconds before running deep into the pit window to hand to Guilvert. Consani managed to close the gap to just over a second by the time he relayed with Lariche, but the #1’s engine refused to fire up after the driver change, costing valuable seconds and allowing Guilvert to escape.
Lariche chased hard but Guilvert had built a comfortable lead, only to have it reduced to nothing when the safety car was called to retrieve the Academy Ford Mustang that had come to a smokey stop out on track. It didn’t matter much though, as Guilvert controlled the restart to over the final few minutes to secure the result ahead of Lariche.
Gabriele Piana put in a typically strong opening stint to bring the #12 Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport BMW into the podium fight across the first half before handing to Thomas Rackl. The German held the spot until the closing moments, when he fell victim to the charging TeamFloral Mustang. After losing a potential podium to a suspension failure on Saturday, Michiel Haverans and Sam Paley made things right this time, with Paley passing Rackl and defending to the flag.
Pedro Garcia and Clement Seyler were a strong fifth for Racing Spirit of Léman, the Aston Martin battling past the CRT-Sport Toyota of Hudson Schwartz/Lucas Cartelle and Harri Reynolds/Yani Stevenheydens’ Elite McLaren.
Class points leaders Enrico Förderer and Cedric Fuchs again had a quiet race, finishing ninth to at least bag some points aboard their SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm Mercedes-AMG. Their lead is now cut to 22 points over Piana and Rackl.
Speedcar doubles up with Bottemanne and Beltramelli
Audi didn’t just shine in Silver, with Bottemanne and Beltramelli surging clear of their class rivals to bag a second Pro-Am victory of the season in Team Speedcar’s #3 entry.
Bottemanne qualified the car comfortably clear of the opposition and was never really troubled as he impressively took the fight to the leading pack of Silvers around him. Julien Briché led the charge for second before his JSB Competition Porsche was hit off by the Razoon – more than Racing BMW of Chris Salkeld, which earned the M4 a penalty and dropped it out of the fight.
That opened the door for Florent Grizaud and David Kullmann to grab second in their Racing Spirit of Léman Aston Martin with Paolo and Davide Meloni completing the podium in the W&D Racing Team BMW. Davide resisted pressure from championship leaders Victor Bouveng and Joakim Walde, whose perfect podium run in the Schubert Motorsport M4 came to an end with them finishing fourth. They still hold a commanding points lead though.
Mikael and Christoffer Brunnhagen finally celebrated their breakthrough Am win aboard the GR Sweden Supra. They ran consistently to beat Daniel Blickle and Max Kronberg’s W&S Porsche, which endured a load of issues. Blickle was hit and spun in the first half, before Kronberg suffered a puncture near the finish but managed to limp the car across the line to at least score some points.
The GT4 European Series returns to action at Zandvoort in September.