Three in a row ... a rare occurence !
AF Corse Motorola’s Dirk Müller and Toni Vilander claimed their third win in a row in Bucharest : quite a rare event in the Championship. So who else has managed - or surpassed - this feat ?
5 in a row : BMS Scuderia Italia’s Thomas Biagi and Matteo Bobbi claimed five wins in a row in 2003, rounds 1 to 5, in a Ferrari 550 Maranello. They went on to win the 2003 FIA GT Championship.
4 in a row : Chrysler Viper Team Oreca’s Pedro Lamy and Olivier Beretta won the first four races of 1998 in their Chrysler Viper GTS-R, winning the GT2 title
3 in a row : Andrea Bertolini and Fabrizio De Simone won the last three rounds of 2003 in their JMB Racing Ferrari 360 Modena.
Sascha Maassen and Lucas Luhr, in a Freisinger Motorsport Porsche 996 GT3 RS, claimed three wins in a row on two occasions in 2004. They went on to win the title.Fabrizio Gollin and Luca Cappellari won the last round of 2003 and the first two rounds of 2004 in the BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 Maranello, the year in which they won the title.
In 2002, eventual Champion Stephane Ortelli won three rounds in a row, and then another four in a row. However, he had a variety of different team-mates, including Marc Lieb, Emmanuel Collard, Sascha Maassen and Romain Dumas.
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Updated 14.7.2007