PODIUM FINISH FOR BENTLEY TEAM ABSOLUTE AT VIR

The Bentley Team Absolute scored its first podium result of the season at Virginia International Raceway last weekend with Yufeng Luo and Swiss-racer Alex Imperatori. 

The duo scored second place in the PRO/AM class in the opening SprintX round of the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge Championship.

The SprintX rounds differ from the standard World Challenge weekends with the race time extended from 50 to 60 minutes and each team must perform a compulsory driver change.

Luo and Imperatori finished eighth overall aboard the No.78 Bentley Continental GT3 and second in the PRO/AM class and backed that up with a sixth place PRO/AM finish on Sunday.

Adderly Fong joined forces with 'Bentley Boy' – factory racer Vince Abril – for the VIR weekend, finishing eighth in the PRO class on both Saturday and Sunday.

“All in all, I would say we had a very positive weekend here at VIR. It was a great opportunity to get to know the team, and I think all the guys at Bentley Team Absolute did a fantastic job getting the car in perfect condition for us," Pirelli World Challenge debutante, Alex Imperatori, said.

My teammate, Yufeng Luo, also did a fantastic job this weekend and I'm really happy to be racing with him. The second place in race one was the highlight of the weekend and it really shows the potential we have for the rest of the championship.”

This was Luo’s first race in the series.

Imperatori added, “For this first SprintX event overall, we scored really good points and the team is in a great championship position, so we really want to keep this momentum going for Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, where the team should be strong again."