A Tweet this morning from Blancpain Sprint Series Championship leader Laurens Vanthoor revealed that the huge shunt that the Belgian suffered in the Qualifying race on Saturday evening at Misano has put him out for the remainder of the 2015 season.

I’m out.. Fracture in my leg and double fracture in my hip. Extremely hard to accept that I will lose my two possible @BlancpainGT titles..

That’s a reference to both the Blancpain Sprint Series, and the overall Blancpain GT Series standings where Vanthoor, together with season co-driver Robert Frijns hold an advantage.

In the BSS standings the #1 crew hold just an 8 point advantage going into the final round at Zandvoort. With 34 points up for grabs (1 point in Qualifying, up to 8 for the qualifying race and 25 for the Championship race)both the chasing HTP bentley pair of Maxi Buhk and Vincent Abril, and the #333 Rinaldi Ferrari pairing of Marco Seefried and Norbert Siedler, who dominated at Misano, are still in the hunt.

In the overall Blancpain GT standings there’s a 27 point advantage over Buhk for the #1 crew with 33 points still to be awarded (no single point for qualifying in that table).

Either way, any points scored by Frijns means that Vanthoor would not share the titles.

No replacement for Vanthoor aboard the #1 Audi has yet been announced by WRT.