Blancpain Sprint Series – Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos win at the end of the suspense

The Blancpain Sprint Series qualifying race offered spectators at the Slovakia Ring a lot of emotion this Saturday. First of all, anxiety, after the violent exit from the track at the very start of the event of the Lamborghini Gallardo of Tomas Enge (Reiter Engineering). After almost four laps in the air, the Italian GT came to a stop on the safety rail, but Enge ultimately emerged unscathed from this violent exit from the track which caused the first red flag of the day in order to repair the safety rails. security. After the restart given on a wet track after the arrival of the rain, the leader Jeroen Bleekemolen (Lamborghini Gallardo – Grasser Racing) saw himself overtaken by the Audi R8 LMS of the Belgian Audi Club Team WRT of Rene Rast for the controls of the race. The Dutchman lost two more places to Markus Winkehock (Audi – Phoenix Racing) and Laurens Vanthoor (Audi – Team WRT) who had lost the benefit of his pole at the start.

A little over 30′ from the end of the race, the Safety Car and then a new red flag were deployed, immobilizing the entire peloton on the grid following several cars in difficulty and almost zero visibility with the intensification of the rain. Leader Markus Winkelhock, who had not stopped before the race was interrupted, finally lost his position by handing over the wheel to Niki Mayr-Melnhof just after the second restart. It was Enzo Ide in the No. 2 Team WRT Audi who was in the lead and seemed headed for victory, but a spin a few laps from the goal ruined his hopes. Cesar Ramos' sister car didn't ask for that much and took the victory. Hari Proczyk retained second place with the Grasser Racing Lamborghini ahead of the Mercedes SLS AMG from Verdonck – Götz.

In the Silver Cup, Vincent Abril had started his stint perfectly by taking back control of the race a few minutes from the finish against the ROAL Motorsport BMW Z4 of Stefano Colombo and David Fumanelli, but the young Monegasque veered too wide and allowed the Z4 to regain control of the category. The main race will take place tomorrow at 12:40 p.m.

The Blancpain Sprint Series qualifying race at the Slovakiaring can be seen in full on this link.