Garassino quickest in final practice for SA simGT season opener at Donington

SA simGT Series

Lance Garassino, in the #33 Ichor Racing Audi R8 LMS, was the fastest man of the final practice session for the 2016 SA simGT Series season opening round at Donington.

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Team JVC’s Johnathan van Merwe was quickest in GT-AM.

Garassino, on his 18th attempt, clocked a 1:28.16 to put him only 0.22 sec of nearest rival GhostworX Racing’s Basheer Jadwat in the #83 Audi. Third quickest was AGBS’ Gert James in the #102 Nissan GTR GT3, trailing Garassino by 0.41 sec.

In GT-AM, it was Team JVC’s Johnathan van der Merwe who impressed with the #23 BMW Z4 GT3 to put him quickest ahead of Valerius Racing’s Chris Chetty and RC Fanatix’s Shiraz Dada.

 
Round 1 of the championship takes place this evening, 01 February 2016. The races will be available to watch from this Sunday on Sim Race SA’s Youtube channel, subscribe now.

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