FIA GT Championship

SRT Corvette quickest in Oschersleben Free Practice

© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat

As the clock showed 9 o’clock in the morning the light at the end of the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben pit lane went green and twenty-eight GT cars went out on the track for the free practice session. IPB Spartak Reiter Engineering and the iPOS Racing withdrew their entries prior to the event. The session, run under a partly clouded sky, eventually saw the SRT Corvette on top of the timing sheets.

After running all of the FIA GT3 cars in an equalisation test around the circuit yesterday it looked like Christophe Bouchut knew the best lines and literally trashed the opposition. The Selleslagh Racing Team Corvette set its fastest lap in 1:23.793. The rest of the field was way behind. Jetalliance’s Karl Wendlinger and Ryan Sharp were best of the rest with a lap time of 1:24.688, nearly nine tenths of a second slower than the Corvette. Behind them the two Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC12s took third and fourth, at 0.939 and 1.042 seconds from the fastest time.

In GT2 it was Ferrari that took control and the gap between the different cars was very small. CR Scuderia’s Tim Mullen and Chris Niarchos led the Italian train, their Ferrari 430 GT2 lapped the track in 1:28.883. AF Corse took second and third fastest time in this session, the Toni Vilander/Gianmaria Bruni car taking second in a time of 1:28.901 with the Thomas Biagi/Christiain Montanari stoppin the clocks on 1:28.943. CR Scuderia completed the top four with Andrew Kirkaldy/Rob Bell setting a 1:28.954.

Down in G2 the best of the three cars was the GTO Charouz Racing Mosler MT 900 of Adam Lacko and Jiri Jirasek. The number 103 Mosler set a 1:31.674 and was twenty-fourth overall.

1 – #3 Selleslagh Racing Team – Corvette C6.R – 1:23.793
2 – #33 Jetalliance Racing – Aston Martin DBR9 – 1:24.688
3 – #2 Vitaphone Racing Team – Maserati MC12 – 1:24.732
4 – #1 Vitaphone Racing Team – Maserati MC12 – 1:24.835
5 – #10 Gigawave Motosport – Aston Martin DBR9 – 1:25.189
6 – #5 Phoenix Carsport – Corvette C6.R – 1:25.289
7 – #4 PK Carsport – Saleen S7R – 1:25.325
8 – #7 Larbre Competition – Saleen S7R – 1:25.455
9 – #37 Escuderia ACA Argentina – Ferrari 550 – 1:26.072
10 – #6 Phoenix Carsport – Corvette C6.R – 1:26.255
11 – #15 JMB Racing – Maserati MC12 – 1:26.560
12 – #55 CR Scuderia – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:28.883
13 – #50 AF Corse – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:28.901
14 – #51 AF Corse – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:28.943
15 – #56 CR Scuderia – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:28.954
16 – #61 Prospeed Competition – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – 1:29.066
17 – #12 AT-Racing – Corvette C5-R – 1:29.125
18 – #77 BMS Scuderia Italia – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:29.219
19 – #62 Scuderia Ecosse – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:29.398
20 – #57 Kessel Racing – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:29.540
21 – #95 AE PeCom Racing Team – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:30.122
22 – #78 BMS Scuderia Italia – Ferrari 430 GT – 1:30.484
23 – #60 Prospeed Competition – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – 1:30.714
24 – #103 GTO Charouz Racing – Mosler MT900 – 1:31.674
25 – #59 Trackspeed Racing – Porsche 997 GT3 RSR – 1:31.751
26 – #101 Belgian Racing – Gillet Vertigo – 1:32.922
27 – #36 Jetalliance Racing – Aston Martin DBR9 – 1:33.302
28 – #104 GTO Charouz Racing – Mosler MT900 – 1:36.386