Double for Mirage Racing at Nogaro

Mirage Racing signed the double in FFSAGT this Monday, Rodolphe Wallgren and Gaël Castelli pocketing the second round of the Nogaro weekend, like the day before.

After easily retaining his preferential position at the start, Jim Pla begins his recital by escaping against the Vincent Beltoise tandem (Alpine A110 GT4 n°13 – Mirage Racing) and Simon Gachet (Mercedes-AMG GT4 n°81 – AKKA-ASP).

The latter finally found the opening after eight minutes of racing, overtaking in two stages after braking at the Ecole corner. Beltoise then lost a place to his teammate Gaël Castelli (Alpine A110 GT4 n°222 – Mirage Racing), winner yesterday in race 1.

As the salvo of driver changes began, Simon Gachet encountered a technical problem with the suspension on his No. 4 Mercedes-AMG GT81 and had to drive at low speed before stopping at the edge of the track, leaving both Alpine – Mirage Racing climb one place on the provisional podium.

Pla pushes his relay to the maximum, which allows Jean-Luc Beaubelique to take the lead again with more than 10″ of margin ahead of Rodolphe Wallgren and Romano Ricci, respective relays of Gaël Castelli and Vincent Beltoise on the Mirage Racing A110s.

Hindered by drivers who were late at the start of the stint, Beaubelique saw Wallgren come back with long strides. The race was however neutralized under Full Course Yellow a little over 17′ from the finish, following Nicolas Gomar's exit from the track (Aston Martin Vantage GT4 n°89 – AGS Events).

Enough to bring together the entire peloton and reignite the suspense for the end of the race. At the restart, Beaubelique still precedes Wallgren, but the latter finally finds the opening in the last minutes to win for the second time in a row this weekend overall and in Pro-Am.

Romain Leroux and Valentin Hasse-Clot (Aston Martin Vantage GT4 n°7 – AGS Events) finished second and first in Silver, ahead of Stéphane Lémeret – Matteo Herrero (Alpine A110 GT4 n°110 – CMR), 2nd in Silver.

Jean-Luc Beaubelique saves 4th place in the race and 2nd in Pro-Am and precedes Paul Evrard and Timothé Buret (Mercedes-AMG GT4 n°88 – AKKA-ASP), who complete the podium in Silver. Romano Ricci and Vincent Beltoise enter the top three in Pro-Am.

Jean-Charles Rédélé, son of Jean Rédélé, won his first success in Am alongside Laurent Coubard on theAlpine A110 GT4 n°76 – Bodemer Auto.

Discover the full report of the Easter Cups, produced by our special correspondents in Nogaro, in issue 2306 of AUTOhebdo, available now in digital version and from this Thursday on newsstands.