"Good feeling"

Lucas Auer goes for the title in the GT3 racing series

Mercedes driver Lucas Auer is having his strongest season to date in the GT World Challenge Europe and is in the thick of the title fight with four events to go.

In the overall standings, only two points separate the Tyrolean and his German team-mate Maro Engel from the Belgians Dries Vanthoor/Charles Weerts from Team WRT-BMW. Auer is also approaching the upcoming weekend at Magny-Cours with a "good feeling". However, the 29-year-old does not want to think about the championship just yet.

Already two victories for Auer
The GT World Challenge is a Europe-wide racing series for GT3 cars organized by Frenchman Stéphane Ratel's SRO Motorsports Group. It is divided into the Sprint Cup and the Endurance Cup. The Winward Racing pairing of Auer/Engel has already clinched victories at Brands Hatch and Hockenheim this year, both of them in the Sprint Cup. Two short-distance races are also on the program in Magny-Cours.

Auer's rise to fame is also astonishing because things are not going at all well for him in the current DTM season. Due to technical problems, bad luck and other reasons, he only ranks twelfth overall after five of eight weekends.