MUSCAT, OMAN – The Al-Manar Racing by Getspeed trio of Oman’s Al-Faisal bin Khalid Al-Zubair, Austria’s Dominik Baumann and Canada’s Mikaël Grenier, joined by GT3 race engineer Marie-Line Finé, collected their awards for second place in both the Drivers’ and Teams’ standings of the 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge powered by AWS Endurance Cup at the SRO Awards ceremony in Paris.
The Mercedes-AMG GT3 crew narrowly missed out to champions Saintéloc Racing (Paul Evrard, Gilles Magnus and Jim Pla), but the season was a major success.
Spa victory the highlight
The standout moment was a sensational victory at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa at the end of June, backed up by second places at Paul Ricard in France, Germany’s Nürburgring and the Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Saudi Arabia.
I feel very proud to have finished this season in second place in the GT World Challenge in the Gold category. For us to be able to do this in our first season in the category is something we must be very proud of. The Spa 24 result was definitely the cherry on top this season. It was especially pleasing to achieve this under the Omani flag with Al-Manar Racing on the car.
Al-Faisal Al-Zubair
We are excited to get back to work and to racing and achieving even better results in this coming season. I am looking forward to announcing what we will be racing quite soon for 2025. Our goal is to always go better and better and we are focused on next year’s plans and over the moon to look back at such a positive season and winning at Spa in 2024.
Al-Faisal Al-Zubair