Marciello and Engel will be joined in the event on the bill of the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix on 18/19 November by Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon.It will be the first running of the World Cup on the Guia street circuit in the Chinese territory since 2019.…
Marciello, who won the last edition of the World Cup, will race a Mercedes-AMG GT3 for the Landgraf team with which he took the ADAC GT Masters title last year. Inaugural World Cup winner Maro Engel again drives for Craft-Bamboo, the team with which he took victory in the Macau GT Cup last year. It was the German's third victory on the 3.8-mile Guia track: he also won the GT race in 2014, the year before it gained FIA world status. Juncadella, who won the F3 Grand Prix in 2011 aboard a Mercedes-powered Dallara, will race a second Merc run by Craft-Bamboo, which won the GT World Challenge Asia title this year. Photo by: Mercedes AMG. Mercedes is going into the event as the most successful manufacturer in its history: it has won three of the five editions of the World Cup so far and is also on a four-year winning streak in the GT event. "Head of Mercedes-AMG customer racing Stefan Wendl said:"We will send our most successful drivers this season, who also have heritage in Macau except for Jules who will be our rookie. The FIA GT World Cup will awarded at the end of a one-hour race ahead of the F3 race on Sunday, 19 November.