The eagerly awaited and most important appointment on the FIA GT International Championship calendar, took place this weekend at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, with the 61strunning of the 24 Hours, one of the oldest and most fascinating races in the history of motor sport and the only one to count for double points.
Victory in the GT2 class went to the BMS Scuderia Italia F430, driven by Matteo Malucelli, Paolo Ruberti, Joel Camathias and Davide Rigon, who finished the race having completed 555 laps, totalling 3887.22 kilometres. They had to fight hard throughout the 24 hours to get the better of the second placed Porsche 997, crewed by Collard-Westbrook-Lieb. A well deserved trip to the third step of the podium went to the AF Corse crew of Gimmi Bruni, Tony Vilander, Jaime Melo and Mika Salo, who were front runners despite having to start from pit lane after having to change engines during qualifying and having to make an unscheduled stop to fix a broken hydraulic jack, which cost them a few laps.
Ferrari maintains its lead in the championship thanks to AF Corse, BMS Scuderia Italia and CR Scuderia, solidly heading the classification on 79, 50 and 35.5 points respectively.
The next round of the FIA GT series, the sixth of the season, will take place at the Bucharest Circuit in Romania, over the weekend of 24th August.
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