{"id":35065,"date":"2021-01-20T14:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T10:31:34","slug":"uae-based-gpx-racing-score-its-first-victory-at-its-home-circuit-at-the-24-hours-of-dubai-endurance-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/uae-based-gpx-racing-score-its-first-victory-at-its-home-circuit-at-the-24-hours-of-dubai-endurance-race\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE-Based GPX Racing Score Its First Victory At Its Home Circuit At The 24 Hours Of Dubai Endurance Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

UAE-based motorsport team, GPX Racing, secured its first-ever victory at the 24 hours of Dubai endurance race this weekend at Dubai Autodrome. The Dubai-based team raced to victory on its home circuit after clinching\u00a0 nine podium finishes in endurance racing over the past two years \u2013 including becoming the first-ever race team to proudly fly the United Arab Emirates flag on the podium in front of an international crowd at the legendary Spa 24 hours race in 2019.<\/p>\n

The team of drivers – Mathieu Jaminet, Julien Andlauer, Axcil Jefferies, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fatien, and Alain Fert\u00e9 – were up against top-level opposition from the world of endurance racing, but put in a faultless performance and led the 24-hour race at their Dubai Autodrome home for almost the entire duration in the Porsche 911 GT3 R proudly wearing the UAE flag on the roof.<\/p>\n

In qualifying, the #36\u00a0911 GT3 R set the fourth-fastest time and quickly got stuck into the battle for victory amongst the Mercedes, Audis, Lamborghinis and the other Porsches \u2013 which were also favourites for the win. The gaps between the rivals were tight and the Porsche in Gulf colours took the lead after around two hours of nail-biting racing. With no major glitches to hinder its momentum, and with two hours to go to until the chequered flag was waved, the team opted for a conservative rhythm and crossed the finish line one-and-a-half laps in front of its nearest competitor after covering 600 laps of Dubai Autodrome.<\/p>\n

Former GP2 driver,Axcil Jefferies, from Zimbabwe was given the honour of crossing the finishing line. He teamed up with GPX Racing\u2019s owner, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fatien, Porsche works driver Mathieu Jaminet, Young Professional Julien Andlauer, and motor racing legend, Alain Fert\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Pierre-Brice Mena, Team Principal: \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to find a better way to start the year! This was one of the races we really wanted to win as we\u2019re based here in Dubai and this is our home circuit. We\u2019re very proud to have achieved this feat, especially after our retirement at last year\u2019s race. The week didn\u2019t get off to a great start as we lacked a big chunk of performance on Monday. We only finished fine-tuning the setup for the 24 hours on Thursday during qualifying. In the race itself we were in the mix; the car ran like a dream and we were able to count on a pretty exceptional bunch of drivers. The race was a delight and there was a super ambience between the drivers. Everything went off naturally without stress and we savoured every moment.”<\/p>\n

GPX Racing\u2019s next target will be to make a success of their debut in the Asian Le Mans Series on the very same circuit, the Dubai Autodrome, on which two 4-hour races are scheduled on 13-14 February.<\/p>\n

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UAE-based motorsport team, GPX Racing, secured its first-ever victory at the 24 hours of Dubai endurance race this weekend at Dubai Autodrome. The Dubai-based team raced to victory on its home circuit after clinching\u00a0 nine podium finishes in endurance racing over the past two years \u2013 including becoming the first-ever race team to proudly fly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35070,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35065\/revisions\/35070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}