By FIA GT Championship
The third round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship, a close and exciting evening race at the Adria International Raceway in Italy, saw the GMAC-backed Phoenix Racing team take its first win, with victory going to Fabrizio Gollin and Mike Hezemans in the nr 6 Corvette C6R.
They finished 9 seconds ahead of the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 of Bertolini and Bartels, with the second Phoenix Corvette, driven by Swiss duo Marcel Fässler and Jean-Denis Deletraz, third, just 12 seconds behind the winner.
In the Championship, Bertolini and Bartels are now tied with Monza winners Bouchut and Maassen, who finished fourth today, in the GT1 Drivers points, closely followed by Gollin and Hezemans. Kaufmann and Talkanitsa won the Citation Cup for AT Racing.
In GT2, AF Corse claimed its first one-two of the season, with the nr 50 Ferrari 430 GT2 of Bruni and Vilander taking the win ahead of their team-mates Thomas Biagi and Christian Montanari.
The Ferrari cars had an extremely close fight with the nr 61 Prospeed Competition Porsche, but a problem with a headlight in the dark saw the Porsche, which had led the category, drop to fifth.
Malucelli and Ruberti took third for BMS Scuderia Italia. Today's result mirrors exactly the current GT2 Drivers classification, where Vilander and Bruni have taken a nine-point lead in the GT2 drivers classification, with their team-mates Biagi and Montanari second, and Ruberti/Malucelli third. AF Corse have taken a 19-point lead in the Teams classification.
All four Argentine drivers finished in the points, with Lopez and Tuero finishing 8th in GT1, while Russo and Perez-Companc also took their first points in GT2, where they finished seventh.
The results remain provisional pending fuel analysis of the winning cars and decision 20 of the Stewards concerning Porsches 59, 60 and 61.
The third round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship, a close and exciting evening race at the Adria International Raceway in Italy, saw the GMAC-backed Phoenix Racing team take its first win, with victory going to Fabrizio Gollin and Mike Hezemans in the nr 6 Corvette C6R.
They finished 9 seconds ahead of the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 of Bertolini and Bartels, with the second Phoenix Corvette, driven by Swiss duo Marcel Fässler and Jean-Denis Deletraz, third, just 12 seconds behind the winner.
In the Championship, Bertolini and Bartels are now tied with Monza winners Bouchut and Maassen, who finished fourth today, in the GT1 Drivers points, closely followed by Gollin and Hezemans. Kaufmann and Talkanitsa won the Citation Cup for AT Racing.
In GT2, AF Corse claimed its first one-two of the season, with the nr 50 Ferrari 430 GT2 of Bruni and Vilander taking the win ahead of their team-mates Thomas Biagi and Christian Montanari.
The Ferrari cars had an extremely close fight with the nr 61 Prospeed Competition Porsche, but a problem with a headlight in the dark saw the Porsche, which had led the category, drop to fifth.
Malucelli and Ruberti took third for BMS Scuderia Italia. Today's result mirrors exactly the current GT2 Drivers classification, where Vilander and Bruni have taken a nine-point lead in the GT2 drivers classification, with their team-mates Biagi and Montanari second, and Ruberti/Malucelli third. AF Corse have taken a 19-point lead in the Teams classification.
All four Argentine drivers finished in the points, with Lopez and Tuero finishing 8th in GT1, while Russo and Perez-Companc also took their first points in GT2, where they finished seventh.
The results remain provisional pending fuel analysis of the winning cars and decision 20 of the Stewards concerning Porsches 59, 60 and 61.