Giltrap claims GTNZ championship at Manfeild
A consistent season in the Golden Homes GTNZ series has seen Marco Giltrap claim the championship at Manfeild this weekend.
Apr 13, 2023
Auckland’s Marco Giltrap adds the Golden Homes GT New Zealand championship trophy to his collection with a podium at the weekend's event at Manfeild Circuit Chris Amon.
Giltrap had a 69 point lead over nearest rival Luke Manson entering into the weekend after having had a consistent season with podium finishes at every round, though not managing to clinch an elusive win.
With those points in hand, Giltrap just needed to keep his SIXT Racing Porsche 991.2 Cup Car on the blacktop to secure the championship.
“It’s a little bit bitter sweet to be honest. To not have won a race, but to have the championship is awesome. We were consistent from day dot, with Matt Houston (engineer) and then Stephen Giles coming in this round to help us. Lots of podiums at least, so we will take that.” Said Giltrap following the event.
“It was a pretty cool race to be honest, it was shaping up to be a close finish, then the safety car got called and it was all on from there,” said Giltrap.
“We knew we didn’t have to do much we were in a comfortable position to win the Championship, the seas sort of parted ways on the restart, I saw a gap and moved up to P3 which was awesome. We only had to finish the race to win.”
Giltrap is also contesting the Porsche Michelin Sprint Challenge Australia series and is currently leading that championship also.
