# 2021 3 Hours of Monza

The 2021 GT World Challenge Europe 3 Hours of Monza was an endurance motor race for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, the first race of the 2021 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, held on 18 April 2021 at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Monza, Italy.

## Classification
### Qualifying

| Pos. | # | Drivers | Team | Car | Class | Individual | Combined | Gap |
| 1 | 63 | Mirko Bortolotti Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli | FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 1:46.949 1:47.341 1:46.729 | 1:47.006 | |
| 2 | 88 | Jules Gounon Daniel Juncadella Raffaele Marciello | AKKA ASP | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | P | 1:47.223 1:47.375 1:46.442 | 1:47.013 | +0.007 |
| 3 | 71 | Antonio Fuoco Callum Ilott Davide Rigon | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | P | 1:47.114 1:46.972 1:47.220 | 1:47.102 | +0.096 |
| 4 | 32 | Charles Weerts Dries Vanthoor Kelvin van der Linde | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 1:47.225 1:47.192 1:47.097 | 1:47.171 | +0.165 |
| 5 | 22 | Matthew Campbell Earl Bamber Mathieu Jaminet | GPX Martini Racing | Porsche 911 GT3 R | P | 1:47.748 1:47.422 1:46.795 | 1:47.321 | +0.315 |
| 6 | 163 | Giacomo Altoè Albert Costa Norbert Siedler | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 1:47.805 1:47.240 1:46.966 | 1:47.337 | +0.331 |
| 7 | 14 | Alex Fontana Rolf Ineichen Ricardo Feller | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | S | 1:47.469 1:47.939 1:46.680 | 1:47.362 | +0.356 |
| 8 | 51 | Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen Côme Ledogar | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | P | 1:47.681 1:47.455 1:47.045 | 1:47.393 | +0.387 |
| 9 | 4 | Maro Engel Luca Stolz Vincent Abril | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | P | 1:47.710 1:47.385 1:47.129 | 1:47.408 | +0.402 |
| 10 | 34 | Marco Wittmann Sheldon van der Linde David Pittard | Walkenhorst Motorsport | BMW M6 GT3 | P | 1:47.521 1:47.398 1:47.310 | 1:47.409 | +0.403 |
| 11 | 87 | Thomas Drouet Konstantin Tereshchenko Simon Gachet | AKKA ASP | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:47.878 1:47.424 1:47.186 | 1:47.496 | +0.490 |
| 12 | 54 | Matteo Cairoli Christian Engelhart Klaus Bachler | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3 R | P | 1:47.791 1:47.624 1:47.353 | 1:47.589 | +0.583 |
| 13 | 7 | Marvin Dienst Paul Petit Óscar Tunjo | Toksport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:47.692 1:48.375 1:46.797 | 1:47.621 | +0.615 |
| 14 | 114 | Jack Aitken Konsta Lappalainen Arthur Rougier | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 1:48.080 1:47.996 1:47.044 | 1:47.706 | +0.700 |
| 15 | 35 | Timo Glock Thomas Neubauer Martin Tomczyk | Walkenhorst Motorsport | BMW M6 GT3 | P | 1:48.257 1:47.806 1:47.103 | 1:47.722 | +0.716 |
| 16 | 31 | Frank Bird Ryuichiro Tomita Valdemar Eriksen | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 1:47.819 1:47.364 1:48.062 | 1:47.748 | +0.742 |
| 17 | 38 | Ben Barnicoat Rob Bell Oliver Wilkinson | Jota Sport | McLaren 720S GT3 | P | 1:47.609 1:48.392 1:47.390 | 1:47.797 | +0.791 |
| 18 | 30 | Benjamin Goethe Stuart Hall James Pull | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 1:47.926 1:48.001 1:47.593 | 1:47.840 | +0.834 |
| 19 | 57 | Russell Ward Ricky Collard Philip Ellis | Winward Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:48.697 1:47.691 1:47.237 | 1:47.875 | +0.869 |
| 20 | 26 | Frédéric Vervisch Markus Winkelhock Finlay Hutchison | Saintéloc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 1:48.008 1:48.432 1:47.232 | 1:47.890 | +0.884 |
| 21 | 25 | Alexandre Cougnaud Christopher Haase Adrien Tambay | Saintéloc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 1:48.120 1:48.241 1:47.311 | 1:47.890 | +0.884 |
| 22 | 99 | Alex Aka Dennis Marschall Tommaso Mosca | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 1:48.102 1:48.451 1:47.414 | 1:47.989 | +0.983 |
| 23 | 66 | Mattia Drudi Kim-Luis Schramm Christopher Mies | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 1:48.065 1:47.866 1:48.057 | 1:47.996 | +0.990 |
| 24 | 56 | Romain Dumas Mikkel Pedersen Andrea Rizzoli | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3 R | P | 1:48.693 1:47.622 1:47.687 | 1:48.000 | +0.994 |
| 25 | 159 | Valentin Hasse-Clot Nicolai Kjærgaard Alex MacDowall | Garage 59 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | S | 1:48.559 1:48.207 1:47.372 | 1:48.046 | +1.040 |
| 26 | 70 | Brendan Iribe Oliver Millroy | Inception Racing | McLaren 720S GT3 | PA | 1:47.891 1:48.509 1:47.938 | 1:48.112 | +1.106 |
| 27 | 107 | Nelson Panciatici Gilles Vannelet Stuart White | Classic and Modern Racing | Bentley Continental GT3 | PA | 1:49.137 1:47.757 1:47.485 | 1:48.126 | +1.120 |
| 28 | 16 | Emilian Galbiati Clemens Schmid Tim Zimmermann | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | S | 1:48.334 1:48.030 1:48.333 | 1:48.232 | +1.226 |
| 29 | 33 | Benjamin Hites Patrick Kujala | Rinaldi Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | S | 1:48.663 1:48.360 1:47.719 | 1:48.247 | +1.241 |
| 30 | 188 | Alexander West Chris Goodwin Jonathan Adam | Garage 59 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | PA | 1:49.344 1:48.460 1:47.130 | 1:48.311 | +1.305 |
| 31 | 2 | Nico Bastian Olivier Grotz Florian Scholze | GetSpeed Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | PA | 1:48.094 1:48.952 1:48.125 | 1:48.390 | +1.384 |
| 32 | 52 | Andrea Bertolini Lorenzo Bontempelli Louis Machiels | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 1:49.066 1:48.605 1:47.596 | 1:48.422 | +1.416 |
| 33 | 19 | Phil Keen Hiroshi Hamaguchi | FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | PA | 1:47.865 1:48.690 1:48.954 | 1:48.503 | +1.497 |
| 34 | 69 | Rob Collard Sam de Haan Callum MacLeod | Ram Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | PA | 1:49.065 1:48.553 1:48.158 | 1:48.592 | +1.586 |
| 35 | 5 | Patrick Assenheimer Hubert Haupt Ricardo Sanchez | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:49.055 1:48.397 1:48.397 | 1:48.616 | +1.610 |
| 36 | 77 | Adrian Amstutz Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | Barwell Motorsport | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | PA | 1:49.845 1:48.629 1:47.558 | 1:48.677 | +1.671 |
| 37 | 93 | Chris Froggatt Eddie Cheever III Stefan Görig | Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 1:48.685 1:50.190 1:47.358 | 1:48.744 | +1.738 |
| 38 | 40 | Niklas Born Jordan Love Yannick Mettler | SPS Automotive Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:49.089 1:48.579 1:48.704 | 1:48.790 | +1.784 |
| 39 | 20 | Dominik Baumann Valentin Pierburg | SPS Automotive Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | PA | 1:48.124 1:49.368 1:49.095 | 1:48.862 | +1.856 |
| 40 | 10 | Karim Ojjeh Jens Klingmann Jens Liebhauser | Boutsen Ginion Racing | BMW M6 GT3 | PA | 1:50.531 1:49.275 1:47.940 | 1:49.248 | +2.242 |
| 41 | 11 | Giorgio Roda Tim Kohmann Francesco Zollo | Kessel Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 1:48.933 1:51.875 1:48.604 | 1:49.804 | +2.798 |
| 42 | 90 | Ezequiel Pérez Companc Rik Breukers | MadPanda Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 1:48.123 1:47.126 No time | 1:47.624 | +0.618 |
| WD | 222 | Julien Apotheloz Jan Kasperlik Nicolas Schöll | Allied Racing | Porsche 911 GT3 R | PA | No time No time No time | No time | |
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* ^1 – The #90 MadPanda Motorsport entry only set a valid time in 2 of the 3 sessions, requiring it to start behind all entries that had set a valid time in all 3 sessions.
* ^2 – The #222 Allied Racing entry crashed in pre-qualifying and was withdrawn from the event.

### Race

| Pos. | # | Drivers | Team | Car | Class | Laps | Time/Gap/Retired | Points |
| 1 | 54 | Matteo Cairoli Christian Engelhart Klaus Bachler | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3 R | P | 79 | 3:01:27.213 | 25 |
| 2 | 88 | Jules Gounon Daniel Juncadella Raffaele Marciello | AKKA ASP | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | P | 79 | +2.886 | 18 |
| 3 | 14 | Alex Fontana Rolf Ineichen Ricardo Feller | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +3.141 | 25 |
| 4 | 71 | Antonio Fuoco Callum Ilott Davide Rigon | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | P | 79 | +3.613 | 15 |
| 5 | 51 | Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen Côme Ledogar | Iron Lynx | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | P | 79 | +7.799 | 12 |
| 6 | 30 | Benjamin Goethe Stuart Hall James Pull | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 79 | +15.607 | 18 |
| 7 | 57 | Russell Ward Ricky Collard Philip Ellis | Winward Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +19.506 | 15 |
| 8 | 31 | Frank Bird Ryuichiro Tomita Valdemar Eriksen | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 79 | +23.391 | 12 |
| 9 | 26 | Frédéric Vervisch Markus Winkelhock Finlay Hutchison | Saintéloc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 79 | +26.060 | 10 |
| 10 | 56 | Romain Dumas Mikkel Pedersen Andrea Rizzoli | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche 911 GT3 R | P | 79 | +33.042 | 8 |
| 11 | 87 | Thomas Drouet Konstantin Tereshchenko Simon Gachet | AKKA ASP | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +34.062 | 10 |
| 12 | 66 | Mattia Drudi Kim-Luis Schramm Christopher Mies | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 79 | +44.844 | 6 |
| 13 | 4 | Maro Engel Luca Stolz Vincent Abril | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | P | 79 | +45.172 | 4 |
| 14 | 188 | Alexander West Chris Goodwin Jonathan Adam | Garage 59 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | PA | 79 | +49.410 | 25 |
| 15 | 99 | Alex Aka Dennis Marschall Tommaso Mosca | Attempto Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | S | 79 | +55.224 | 8 |
| 16 | 19 | Phil Keen Hiroshi Hamaguchi | FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | PA | 79 | +56.939 | 18 |
| 17 | 33 | Benjamin Hites Patrick Kujala | Rinaldi Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +1:04.867 | 6 |
| 18 | 40 | Niklas Born Jordan Love Yannick Mettler | SPS Automotive Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +1:05.381 | 4 |
| 19 | 159 | Valentin Hasse-Clot Nicolai Kjærgaard Alex MacDowall | Garage 59 | Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 | S | 79 | +1:12.044 | 2 |
| 20 | 7 | Marvin Dienst Paul Petit Óscar Tunjo | Toksport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +1:12.372 | 1 |
| 21 | 77 | Adrian Amstutz Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | Barwell Motorsport | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | PA | 79 | +1:17.049 | 15 |
| 22 | 5 | Patrick Assenheimer Hubert Haupt Ricardo Sanchez | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 79 | +1:28.082 | |
| 23 | 163 | Giacomo Altoè Albert Costa Norbert Siedler | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 78 | +1 lap | 2 |
| 24 | 63 | Mirko Bortolotti Marco Mapelli Andrea Caldarelli | FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 78 | +1 lap | 1+1 |
| 25 | 2 | Nico Bastian Olivier Grotz Florian Scholze | GetSpeed Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | PA | 78 | +1 lap | 12 |
| 26 | 34 | Marco Wittmann Sheldon van der Linde David Pittard | Walkenhorst Motorsport | BMW M6 GT3 | P | 78 | +1 lap | |
| 27 | 16 | Emilian Galbiati Clemens Schmid Tim Zimmermann | GRT Grasser Racing Team | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | S | 78 | +1 lap | |
| 28 | 20 | Dominik Baumann Valentin Pierburg | SPS Automotive Performance | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | PA | 78 | +1 lap | 10 |
| 29 | 52 | Andrea Bertolini Lorenzo Bontempelli Louis Machiels | AF Corse | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 78 | +1 lap | 8 |
| 30 | 93 | Chris Froggatt Eddie Cheever III Stefan Görig | Tempesta Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 78 | +1 lap | 6 |
| 31 | 107 | Nelson Panciatici Gilles Vannelet Stuart White | Classic and Modern Racing | Bentley Continental GT3 | PA | 77 | +2 laps | 4 |
| 32 | 35 | Timo Glock Thomas Neubauer Martin Tomczyk | Walkenhorst Motorsport | BMW M6 GT3 | P | 75 | +4 laps | |
| DNF | 10 | Karim Ojjeh Jens Klingmann Jens Liebhauser | Boutsen Ginion Racing | BMW M6 GT3 | PA | 52 | Puncture | |
| DNF | 90 | Ezequiel Pérez Companc Rik Breukers | MadPanda Motorsport | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | S | 49 | | |
| DNF | 114 | Jack Aitken Konsta Lappalainen Arthur Rougier | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | P | 40 | | |
| DNF | 32 | Charles Weerts Dries Vanthoor Kelvin van der Linde | Team WRT | Audi R8 LMS Evo | P | 29 | Puncture | |
| DNF | 38 | Ben Barnicoat Rob Bell Oliver Wilkinson | Jota Sport | McLaren 720S GT3 | P | 29 | | |
| DNF | 22 | Matthew Campbell Earl Bamber Mathieu Jaminet | GPX Martini Racing | Porsche 911 GT3 R | PA | 26 | | |
| DNF | 11 | Giorgio Roda Tim Kohmann Francesco Zollo | Kessel Racing | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo | PA | 18 | Suspension | |
| DNF | 69 | Rob Collard Sam de Haan Callum MacLeod | Ram Racing | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | P | 8 | Crash | |
| DNF | 25 | Alexandre Cougnaud Christopher Haase Adrien Tambay | Saintéloc Racing | Audi R8 LMS Evo | PA | 2 | Mechanical | |
| DNF | 70 | Brendan Iribe Oliver Millroy | Inception Racing | McLaren 720S GT3 | PA | 1 | Mechanical | |
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## Standings after the event

| Pos | Pilot | Pts | Gap |
| 1 | Matteo Cairoli Christian Engelhart Klaus Bachler | 25 | |
| 2 | Jules Gounon Daniel Juncadella Raffaele Marciello | 18 | +7 |
| 3 | Antonio Fuoco Callum Ilott Davide Rigon | 15 | +10 |
| 4 | Alessandro Pier Guidi Nicklas Nielsen Côme Ledogar | 12 | +13 |
| 5 | Frédéric Vervisch Markus Winkelhock Finlay Hutchison | 10 | +15 |
| Pos | Driver | Pts | Gap |
| 1 | Alex Fontana Rolf Ineichen Ricardo Feller | 25 | |
| 2 | Benjamin Gøthe Stuart Hall James Pull | 18 | +7 |
| 3 | Russell Ward Ricky Collard Philip Ellis | 15 | +10 |
| 4 | Frank Bird Ryuichiro Tomita Valdemar Eriksen | 12 | +13 |
| 5 | Thomas Drouet Konstantin Tereshchenko Simon Gachet | 10 | +15 |
| Pos | Driver | Pts | Gap |
| 1 | Alexander West Chris Goodwin Jonathan Adam | 25 | |
| 2 | Phil Keen Hiroshi Hamaguchi | 18 | +7 |
| 3 | Adrian Amstutz Henrique Chaves Miguel Ramos | 15 | +10 |
| 4 | Nico Bastian Olivier Grotz Florian Scholze | 12 | +13 |
| 5 | Dominik Baumann Valentin Pierburg | 10 | +15 |
* Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.