Krumm-Luhr celebrate double at Paul Ricard

Starting from pole position following their success the day before in the qualifying race, Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr took advantage of this position to win in the Sunday race at the wheel of their No. 23 Nissan GT-R.

The JRM crew thus takes the lead in the Championship at the expense of Markus Winkelhock and Marc Basseng, the previous leaders, who only finished in eighth place in the Sunday race. The podium is completed by Stefan Mucke and Darren Turner, drivers of theAston Martin n°8 (Young Driver AMR), which finished in front of the sister car n°7 driven by Tomas Enge and Alex Müller.

Another Nissan is in fourth place with the #21 (Sumo Power) of Jamie Campbell-Walter and David Brabham. She is ahead of the #4 Aston Martin of Christian Hohenadel and Andrea Piccini (Hexis AMR). On the other hand, the No. 22 JRM, driven by Richard Westbrook and Peter Dumbreck, claimed a good place at the finish before abandoning five minutes from the end of the race, due to mechanical problems.

Find the report of the FIA ​​GT1 at Paul Ricard from our special correspondent in the next issue of AUTOhebdo, on sale from Wednesday.