In a word ? Untouchable. There Porsche #31 of Dinamic Motorsport driven by Matteo Cairoli, Christian Engelhart and Sven Muller masterfully won the second round of the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup at the Nürburgring.
All she had to do was survive the first turn strike and she was never seen again. Even the safety cars couldn't disrupt it. Each time, she managed the restart perfectly and regained her twenty-second margin without problem.
For the show, you had to look just behind. At the first corner, four cars left the race quickly. Pole sitter Dennis Olsen, in the GPX Racing Porsche, clashed with the Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini driven by Albert Costa. Just behind, the Ferrari AF Corse n°51 of James Calado, hit at the rear, also ended up in the gravel. Finally, the K-Pax Racing Bentley in the hands of Jules Gounon, Rodrigo Baptista and Maxime Soulet also experienced problems.
Four of the favorites eliminated, it was the WRT team with the No. 32 Audi of Charles Weerts, Dries Vanthoor and Christopher Mies which found itself second in front of the Mercedes AKKA-ASP n°88 by Timur Boguslavskiy, Raffaele Marciello and Felipe Fraga. Over the hours, positions changed. The Audi of Saintéloc, the Porsche of GPX Racing n°40, the other Bentley of K-Pax Racing, the Mercedes of Haupt Racing or GetSpeed and even the Lamborghini of the FFF Racing team found themselves on the podium.
But in the end, we find the AKKA-ASP Mercedes second ahead of the Haupt Racing Mercedes, driven by Maro Engel, Luca Stolz and Vincent Abril. In the championship, the big winners are called WRT, since the Belgian team, already in great form in August, places its two cars in fourth and fifth place, the No. 31 of Mirko Bortolotti, Rolf Ineichen and Kelvin van der Linde ahead. n°32 by Charles Weerts, Dries Vanthoor and Chistopher Mies. She takes the lead in the championship, just ahead of the AKKA-ASP Mercedes.
In Silver, it's theAston Martin from Garage 59 in the hands of James Pull, Valentin Hasse Clot and Andrew Watson who won. In Pro-Am, victory went to the Lamborghini of the FFF Racing team in the hands of Elia Erhart, Hiroshi Hamaguchi and Phil Keen.
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