Peter Kox and Jos Menten were forced to tread carefully in free practice since they had fewer tyres at their disposal after missing a race and as stipulated by the regulations. “The performance is good, 1:28 lap times are certainly well within our possibilities,”predicted Hans Reiter. Local matador Jos Menten reduced the deficit to the leading group in qualifying by several tenths with a lap time of 1:27.351 minutes, which meant tenth position on the grid.
The #28 Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT, driven by Peter Kox and Jos Menten, will not take part in the ninth round of the FIA-GT championship in Nogaro. At the last race in Brno, a broken wheel nut caused a left front wheel to loosen and break away shortly before the end of the race.
Just two weeks after the last event at the Adria Raceway, the fight for the FIA-GT Championship continued in Brno, Czech Republic. Early on in the weekend the free practice sessions looked to be a good omen for Peter Kox and Jos Menten as, in the second session, they were fastest of the big GT1 field. Peter Kox qualified the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT and drove the fifth best lap time on the hilly circuit near Brno.
The first night race in the FIA GT Championship since 2002 was almost a perfect weekend for Jos Menten and Peter Kox in the #28 Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT. Team Boss Hans Reiter was extremely satisfied after qualifying: “We are in fifth position only two-tenths of a second off the front row. We can be more than satisfied with this result bearing in mind how close the competition is in the FIA GT on this circuit.”
With the same speed it has shown at the Italian high speed track in Monza, the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT was successful in the practice sessions at Spa-Francorchamps. Peter Kox and Jos Menten, helped by Jeroen Bleekemolens, also from the Netherlands, drove the sixth fastest time on the 7,004 km track in the Ardennes hills. They were just six tenths of a second behind the pole setting Corvette of Mike Hezemans.
For the first time, two customer teams will represent Lamborghini at the FIA-GT championship, beginning with the Total 24hrs of Spa Francorchamps. A little bit earlier than planned at the start of the season, ALL-INKL.COM Racing under the leadership of René Muennich, will head to their new workshop in Bautzen / Germany. From there they will organize the FIA-GT races of the #7 Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT with a new infrastructure.
A mistake on the homologation papers robbed Team ALL-INKL.COM of valuable points last weekend in Oschersleben. Stefan Muecke and Christophe Bouchut started the race after a brilliant qualifying session from the first row on the starting grid, and held a consistent position in the GT1 class throughout. After two hours of racing, the winners of the first FIA-GT race at Zhuhai finished on the podium in Germany with third place overall.
For ALL-INKL.COM Reiter the fourth weekend of the FIA-GT Championship started better than expected. Although the fastest track in the schedule hadn’t suited the Murciélago R-GT in the past, Peter Kox qualified the #8 Lamborghini on the first row of the grid for Sunday’s race. Just for Monza, Reiter Engineering produced a new aerodynamic package with new splitters and floor, which worked perfectly.
But Kox unfortunately couldn´t use his second place start position as, due to a mistake by the team, the size of the rear wing was found to be slightly outside the legal limits. So the #8 was sent to the back of the grid.
Even this attributes characterize the misson of JLOC for Le Mans. Since the early 70´s the Japanese team has a steady connection with the Italian maufacturer in racing business. 2007 they can celebrate again an entry for the 24 hours at the Sarthe. But this time, JLOC acomplish their effort in their own response, but uses two constants from last year. First, the driver line up will stay the same. Marco Apicella, Koji Yamanishi und Yasutoka Hinoi will share the steering wheel of the JLOC Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT.
