February 17, 2026 | News
The Sports Prototype Winter Series had been scheduled to compete in two standalone 40-minute races, as had been the case at Portimão a week prior. However, severe winds and a local government forced the cancellation of Saturday’s schedule. With time limited, the Sports Prototype Winter Series grid would instead gain an additional outing, running two 20-minute sprints and a 50-minute pitstop race alongside the GT4 Winter Series. The SPWS competitors – comprised of three Radical SR3 XXRs, one from Sünder Motorworks and two from Team RaceStreaming – started separately from the GT4 grid, roughly half a lap behind.
In all three races, Morten Strømsted and Steven Berndtson’s #24 Sünder Motorworks entry claimed victory. However, at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, it appeared that Team RaceStreaming’s Diego D’Ambra was much closer to the pace of the #24, which had been driven by Strømsted and Sebastian Schou at Portimão.
Indeed, in both of the sprint races, D’Ambra was within a half-dozen seconds of the winning entry, aboard his #22 car. In the early stages of the 50-minute pitstop race, D’Ambra was able to lead, but ultimately lost out and faded as the battle between he and Strømsted began encountering GT4 traffic.
Jess Frandsen finished all three races in third place, driving the #23 RaceStreaming entry.
For the #24 Sünder entry and Morten Strømsted, a 100 per cent win rate speaks to the supreme performance of the Dane and his co-drivers. With a compact schedule of track time over the course of nine days at Portimão and Valencia, the SPWS events have proven to be a great tool for Strømsted and his competitors, ahead of the summer months.
The Sports Prototype Winter Series is designed to cater to all prototypes beyond the modern LMP family of cars. Teams with Radicals, Novas, Wolfs, Revolutions, CN and SR-class cars – among others – are encouraged to contact GEDLICH Racing to be the first to discover future plans for the SPWS category.
