Porsche takes the top of the overall ranking at the end of the Free Practice of the GT World Challenge Europe, which faces the second round of the Sprint Cup of the season in sunny Misano this weekend.
The session suffered a very long interruption after about twenty minutes due to the bad accident involving Thomas Fleming at the ‘Rio’ curve.
The Ferrari #71 driven by the Briton, for reasons yet to be ascertained, went off at high speed, ending up straight into the barrier, breaking through the guardrail and being submerged by the piles of tyres; to extract the pilot it was necessary to cut the steering column and Fleming, conscious and unharmed when rescued, was first taken to the medical centre, only to then be transferred by helicopter to hospital for further checks, given the large blow.
Most of the work will now fall to the good mechanics of AF Corse, who once they have the 296 GT3 back in the pits once the session is over they will have to roll up their sleeves to rearrange a vehicle that doesn’t seem to be in good shape at all.
#71 AF Corse, Ferrari 296 GT3: Eliseo Donno, Thomas Fleming
Photo by: Francesco Corghi
Once the track was fixed with a long intervention by the commissioners, the activities began again by adding the lost time to the stopwatch, which once ran out saw the 911 GT3-R #54 of Dinamic Motorsport close on top, which with Marvin Dienst is the fastest in 1’31″870 also standing out in the Bronze Cup Class, keeping a couple of PROs behind.
Among these cars we have the BMW #32 of Team WRT trailing by 0″038 and the Mercedes #9 of Boutsen VDS third at +0″176, while following there are three Audis, first of which is the #25 of Saintéloc Racing which she is fourth overall and first in the Gold Cup, ahead of the #99 of Tresor Attempto Racing and the #111 of CSA Racing, second in Gold.
Seventh time for the Aston Martin #7 of Comtoyou Racing at 0″4, the Lamborghini #72 of Barwell Motorsport also started well, finishing with the eighth time and second in the Bronze Cup.
Very short ranking which also sees the Ferrari #51 of Racing Team Turkey-AF Corse in the Top10, and the Lamborghini #85 of Imperiale Racing which placed third in the Bronze Cup.
The Mercedes #48 of Winward Racing, leader of the PRO championship, is eleventh with the Ferrari #14 of Emil Frey Racing behind, in a ranking where 28 cars are within 1″ and the BMW #46 of Rossi/Martin finds itself 17th.
In the Silver Cup Class, the Mercedes #57 of Winward Racing took the lead, beating the BMW #30 of WRT and the AMG #10 of Boutsen VDS, as well as the Ferrari #52 of AF Corse and the Audi #26 of Saintéloc Racing which close the Top5 in the category.
The support category schedule has been revised to make up for lost time and Pre-Qualifying has been kept at 3.50pm.
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