MONZA, ITALY – Australian racer Broc Feeney joins Oman’s Al-Faisal bin Khalid Al-Zubair and Austria’s Dominik Baumann to chase Gold Cup honours at round four of the 2024 Fanatec GT World Challenge powered by AWS Endurance Cup at Monza this weekend.
Feeney replaces Canada’s Mikaël Grenier in the Al-Manar Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo as the team aims to close a nine-point gap to Saintéloc Racing’s Paul Evrard, Gilles Magnus and Jim Pla in the Teams’ and Gold Cup standings. Saintéloc won rounds one and three at Paul Ricard and the Nürburgring, while Al-Manar Racing by Getspeed won the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa.
Who is Broc Feeney?
The 22-year-old races in the Repco Supercars Championship and won the 2021 Dunlop Super2 Series in a VF Commodore. He started karting 11 years ago, winning numerous state and national titles before moving to the Toyota 86 Racing Series Australia. The Gold Coast driver is also a Bathurst 12 Hour class winner, finishing third, fifth and sixth overall on his last three outings in a Triple Eight Race Engineering Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo.
Looking forward to this weekend’s race in Monza. It is the penultimate round of the championship before Jeddah. We are currently second in the championship, nine points behind the Saintéloc Audi. Anything is really on and it is still possible to win the title. This weekend we have a good package with the Mercedes for Monza.
Al-Faisal Al-Zubair
We will have Broc Feeney joining us instead of Mikaël Grenier, as Mik has a race in the IMSA Championship. We really believe in Broc’s strength and we think we can achieve a good result at the weekend and continue the fight for the championship.
Al-Faisal Al-Zubair
Schedule
Fifty-two cars compete across the classes. Gold Cup rivals include third-placed Haupt Racing (Mercedes), Tresor Attempto Racing (Audi) and CSA Racing (Audi), podium finishers at the opening round in France. A bronze test runs on Friday afternoon, followed by two hours of free practice from 09:00 on Saturday and an hour of pre-qualifying. On Sunday, three qualifying sessions start at 09:00 and the three-hour race begins at 15:30. The weekend also features the McLaren Trophy Europe, GT2 European Series and GT4 European Series.