BMW Team Schnitzer and Farfus now turn their attention to the next GT highlight this coming week. BMW is set to make its motorsport return to South Africa in the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Farfus will be joined in the BMW M6 GT3 by Martin Tomczyk and local favourite Sheldon van der Linde at Kyalami. Walkenhorst Motorsport will race with a further two BMW M6 GT3s. Two BMW M4 GT4s were also in action at the Macau Grand Prix. Hei Chan (Son Veng Racing Team) and Pei Wen Qi (Team AVM) finished fifth and seventh in the Greater Bay Area GT Cup on Sunday morning.

“There was nothing more we could have done today. We needed a good start to immediately make progress through the field. However, the Porsche drivers were clever and managed to stay in front of me. After that, it was tough for me to match the pace of the front-runners. I took a bit more of a risk at the re-start after the safety car period and was able to briefly take third place. However, I then braked a little too late coming into Lisboa, and found myself back in fourth as a result. It would have been tough to keep Earl Bamber behind me for the rest of the race anyway. If somebody had told me after the first practice sessions that we would finish fourth here, I would have taken that straight away. As it stands, we are a little disappointed now. You always want to make it onto the podium. Despite that, we can be proud of our performance. I would like to thank the whole team at BMW Team Schnitzer. We now move on to Kyalami.“