A bunch of teams had something to celebrate during the final round of the 2021 Império Endurance Brasil season at Goiânia, mainly Mottin Racing, as they scored the first victory of their No. 26 AJR, and Motorcar Racing, champion of the season.
During the first hour the No. 444 Motorcar AJR was in total domination with Gustavo Kiryla at the wheel, and with the rest of the P1 entries mixed with the GT3s, the leader wasn’t under threat during the first stint, with Vicente Orige securing the lead during his run.
Neither the No. 444 nor the No. 3 BOATM3 Mercedes were threatened during the middle of the race from their top positions in the P1 and GT3 classes, and the position became really important as the coulds started accumulating above the circuit, with the rain coming nearly of the final hour as many cars were sliding and spinning on track.
Once the conditions improved, everybody started switching back from rain tires to slicks, and with the No. 3 having Alexandre Auler without experience in the rain, the No. 26 Mottin AJR took second place easily, although this wasn’t nearly enough to get closer to the leading No. 444 Motorcar AJR.
What Vicente Orige didn’t count with was the immense amount of degradation of the No. 444’s rain tires and a Safety Car with 20 minutes to go, which allowed the No. 26 Mottin AJR to come around, mount an attack and take the lead. This was good enough to go away as the pace of the two cars was simply too different, and the No. 26 just had to manage its way to the checkered flag.
4 Hours of Goiânia - Race results
In a golden Saturday for Mercedes, the No. 83 from Team RC got the GT3 class win and the third place overall, while the title contender No. 18 Blau McLaren saw its hopes being thrown away with mechanical issues at the halfway mark. Way behind the GT3 winners, the No. 63 Tech Force Aston Martin displayed the usual consistency to score another GT3 Light win.
Behind the GT3 Light winner, the No. 18 FTR MCR was the only P2 class car present, with the P3 class winner, the No. 34 Motorcar MetalMoro, just two laps down. Further down the field, the only GT4 Light entry, the No. 69 Stillux Ginetta, was actually the best GT4 of the field, even beating the debuting No. 222 AutLog Mustang, which secured the GT4 class win after battling incessantly with the No. 64 MC Tubarão BMW, which would retire due to accident damage.
With the discards in place after the eight rounds, Marcelo Vianna and Emilio Padron from the No. 11 Motorcar AJR were declared champions with 620 points against 565 of Vicente Orige, Gustavo Kiryla, Cacá Bueno and Ricardo Baptista. The pair only let the P1 class title slide between their fingers, with Fernando Fortes lifting it alone with 660 points, 35 more than Vianna and Padron.
Marcelo Hahn and Allam Khodair brought the title home to Blau Motorsport in the GT3 class by beating Bueno and Baptista, and André Moraes Jr. and Cassio Homem de Mello got the GT4 title for AutLog Racing.
Ricardo Mendes from the No. 155 SulRacing Ferrari was carried to the GT3 Light title, with team mates Marçal Muller and Tom Filho right behind in the class table, and in the P3 class, MC Tubarão was back to the title lifting, with Tiel Andrade and João Maia being the class champions.
By the way, Goiânia is where things will start over again in 2022, with the new season kicking off on 26 March.
PHOTO: Império Endurance Brasil/MS2
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