Crazy weather in Spain too! The ProAm race on Saturday provided everything from dry to wet. Andrea Ceccato and Marco Visconti held their nerves and displayed true class by not only winning in the GTS class with the Racing Box Lamborghini Gallardo but also by finishing in fifth place overall among the more powerful GT2 cars.
The two Italians also won Sunday’s race in front of a crowd of 46,000. With three wins in four races Ceccato / Visconti now hold the championship lead with a total of 30 points.
Highs and lows were order of the day at the second round of the FIA GT3 European Championship in Monza. Tech9 lost a Lamborghini Gallardo in an accident during practice, however success followed in the first 60 minute race. Christopher Haase and Dimitrios Deverikos, sharing a cockpit for the first time at Tech9, claimed a sensational podium finish in this extremely hard fought championship after finishing second.
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Giacomo Piccini and Matteo Grassotto scored two flawless victories at Mugello. As a result, they secured their MIK Corse and Lamborghini the second and third wins in four rounds of the Italian GT Championship. The weekend’s first race saw Piccini / Grassotto ably supported by team mates Marzo Romano and Cedric Sbirazzuoli. Fifth place in the second race saw enough points collected to stay in the leading group. Caccia / Garofano claimed 7th and 6th positions with the third MIK Corse Lamborghini Gallardo.
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A full grid greeted the opening round of the ADAC GT Masters at Oschersleben. The Lamborghini Gallardo drivers narrowly missed podium finishes in both the 60 minute races. In the first race on Saturday afternoon defending Champion Christopher Haase and last year’s runnerup Albert von Thurn und Taxis were fourth in the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo followed by Frank Schmickler / Sebastian Asch (ARGO Racing) and Harald Becker / Frank Kechele (ARGO Racing). Two further Lamborghini Gallardo driven by Mike Hezemans / Marius Ritskes (Reiter Engineering) and Rainer Stiefel / Michael Raja (MRP Motorsport) were classified in the topten.
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