2017 FIA GT World Cup

Race details[1]
Date 19 November 2017
Official name SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup
Location Guia Circuit, Macau
Course Temporary street circuit
6.120 km (3.803 mi)
Distance Qualification Race
11 laps, 67.320 km (41.831 mi)
Main Race
18 laps, 110.160 km (68.450 mi)
Qualification Race
Pole
Driver Switzerland Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG Team Driving Academy
Time 2:17.565
Fastest lap
Driver Netherlands Robin Frijns Audi Sport Team WRT
Time 2:19.153 (on lap 10)
Podium
First Switzerland Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG Team Driving Academy
Second Brazil Augusto Farfus BMW Team Schnitzer
Third Italy Raffaele Marciello Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Main Race
Pole
Driver Switzerland Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG Team Driving Academy
Fastest lap
Driver Germany Maro Engel Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing
Time 2:20.196 (on lap 17)
Podium
First Switzerland Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG Team Driving Academy
Second Netherlands Robin Frijns Audi Sport Team WRT
Third Germany Maro Engel Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing

The 2017 FIA GT World Cup (formally the SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup) was a non-championship Grand Touring (GT) sports car race held on the streets of the Macau autonomous territory on 19 November 2017. It was the event's third edition, and the tenth Macau GT3-specification cars race. The Automobile General Association Macau-China appointed the motorsports organiser Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) to form a grid for the race. The race itself consisted of an 11-lap qualifying race that set the starting order for the 18-lap main race.

Mercedes-AMG Team Driving Academy's Edoardo Mortara won the main race from pole position in a Mercedes-AMG GT3 after winning the Qualification Race the afternoon before. Mortara led from the start and every lap of the main race to achieved his sixth Macau victory. Second place was taken by the highest-placed rookie, Robin Frijns, driving an Audi R8 LMS for Audi Sport Team WRT. Maro Engel of Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing completed the podium in third.

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