FIA GT1 / Zolder: Victory for the Porsche n°9

Mike Parisy and Matt Halliday took victory by taking advantage of a good choice of tires to overtake the BMW Z4 of Bartels/Buurman who had won the day before. Hexis Racing took 5th and 7th place.

Published on 22/04/2012 à 18:30

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FIA GT1 / Zolder: Victory for the No. 9 Porsche

La piste était encore détrempée au départ de la course Championnat et les pneus pluie étaient de rigueur sur la plupart des voitures lorsque le feu est passé au vert. Après avoir décroché la pole de la course qualificative et reçu une pénalité de trois places, Matt Halliday et Mike Parisy s?imposent avec la Porsche n°9 d?Exim Bank Team China. Le Néo-Zélandais a réalisé un bon relais en partant de la troisième place pour permettre au Français d?attaquer la BMW Z4 de Yelmer Buurman (Vita4One Racing) après avoir chaussé les pneus slicks. Michael Bartels et Yelmer Buurman se contentent ainsi de la deuxième place après avoir remporté la course qualificative.

Toni Vilander and Filip Salaquarda took third place with the F458 AF Corse. The crew only took 13th place yesterday but their choice to take slicks for the start of the race paid off. Nicky Pastorelli and Thomas Jäger failed at the foot of the podium with the Mercedes SLS AMG from All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport after starting on the front row. Hexis Racing takes fifth place with McLaren MP4-12C of Frédéric Makowiecki and Stef Dusseldorp while the sister car n°2 of Grégoire Demoustier finished seventh behind the Audi R8 LMS of Laurens Vanthoor and Stéphane Ortelli only finished sixth after the Monegasque came into contact with the sister car #33 of Oliver Jarvis which finished tenth. Team WRT had opted for slicks but adapted less well than AF Corse.

Discover the report from the FIA GT1 World weekend in Zolder in the next issue of AUTOhebdo, available from Tuesday in digital version for iPad and from Wednesday on newsstands.