FIA GT Championship

FIA GT – Adria – Friday Free Practice

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Round two of the FIA GT Championship took the teams to the Adria International Raceway near Venice, Italy. 22 cars are entered for the second round, with 21 taking part in the free practice session. On home soil the Maserati was fastest in the opening session.

Times were very close in the first session of the weekend. The Bartels/Bertolini driven Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC12 was fastest in 1:13.201, only 5 milliseconds ahead of the Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette C6.R of Maassen/Moreau. Ramos/Müller in the second Maserati MC12 were 0.030s behind their team mates.

In GT2 the Ferrari teams took a 1-2-3, opposed to a Porsche top three in the free practice session at Silverstone two weeks ago. The #77 BMS Scuderia Italia F430 GT2 of Ruberti/Malucelli was quickest in 1:15.947. Second fastest was the CRS Racing #50 of Niarchos/Mullen (1:16.087) and third fastest the AF Corse Ferrari of Vilander/Bruni (1:16.203)
Best of the Porsche 997 GT3 RSRs was the Brixia Racing #97 of Lucchini and Ragginger, the Italian entry taking fourth place in 1:16.212.

Pecom Racing, competing at Adria with Cédric Sbirrazuoli and Francesco La Mazza, did not take part in the first session. PMB Motorsport was again a no-show.

Full results can be found here on the FIA GT website.