Filipe Albuquerque, who contested the Italian GT Championship this year forAudi Sport Italia in an Audi R8 LMS, surprisingly won the Race of Champions inDüsseldorf. At the finale, the 25-year-old Portuguese defeated World RallyChampion Sébastien Loeb, who had previously eliminated Le Mans record winnerTom Kristensen.

In the competition of the world’s best race and rally drivers theAudi R8 LMS was fielded  this year, for the first time. At the wheel of the GT3sports car Albuquerque defeated Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel as hewas heading toward overall victory in Düsseldorf.