RACE 1 - IMOLA - GT4 EUROPE IMOLA 2020

[Music] the gt4 european series gets underway this weekend at imola and the cars are set for the first of two 1r races mandatory pit stops and this a circuit that is new to the gt4 european series indeed it has been the best part of 15 years or so since sro was last here with the fia gt championship so for many drivers teams it's new there are quite a few however here with italian gt championship experience uh but let us see what pans out in this first of the two one-hour races the way that the championship works is that it's one driver per qualifying session so the drivers that start this are the ones that did the time in many cases it's a quicker driver getting into the car for the second stint and that of course is going to affect the pace the result the order and will add to the drama particularly in the second part of the hour there the grid is forming of course imola is looking somewhat different this weekend around the circuit because no spectators sadly permitted all the teams on the grid of course wearing masks and respecting social distancing and all the teams with fewer personnel on site as well chem bulk bazi was the winner of the formula renault esports championship during the lockdown mountain he's the man that's on pole position a race one in his bmw m4 and lining up alongside is the similar car but from a different team the rn vision sts entry of uh bass charlton former single-seater turn gt4 racer and he too is going to be a man to watch that's for sure now inevitably because of what's been going on globally over the last few months drivers teams sponsors plans change and so the grid is 17 strong rather than perhaps 40 cars that we enjoyed a couple of years ago but what we have is still a very strong entry and with the three-minute board being shown we're not far off getting the action underway the pit window is between 25 and 35 minutes a pit stop is in total 105 seconds you've got to be stationary but there's also the drive time allowed in the other two together it's 105 seconds pit in to pit out stefan lemare there one of the drivers in one of the two toyota supra uh gt4s this car to get its full name the toyota gr supra gt4 the gr4 gazoo racing the competition um of toyota you'll see more of these in british gt4 for example speedworks motorsport running abrasive cars lamerae and man to watch let's walk up the grid then the blue bmw of chamber avasky on pole position and it is the multicolored car of bash shelton lining up alongside the white toyota third of stefan lemere and alongside him uh it is uh who will start in the ags run aston martin fifth on the grid luke ibenith forsaking his geneta g55 to go mercedes this year and alongside his ivanyakimo number 718 in the 718 iteration of the cayman on the fourth round of the grid you've got the bmw which is started by paolo maloney alongside is jan casper link in the number 22 allied motorsports porsche next on the grid the sister car of your v-ban and alongside it will be mark van der r starting in the 110 bmw on the next row of the grid there is wim spinoit starting in number 30. there you see the mercedes and alongside him is uh yop raphael she put this chevrolet in the gravel and caused a red flag in the first qualifying session the seventh row ibrahimovic now he goes solo for both races and as a result of that gets an extra 10 seconds in the pits alongside him is giuseppe getzi then you've got dario charati and nicola gomar next on the grid with the man at the back being uh antoine potty who was another driver that ended up in the gravel in the qualifying session and as a consequence of that uh lost his best time if you are the cause of a red flag you lose your best lap time well the trouble was it was his only lap time so it puts him to the back of the grid come what made big frustration for him as a result of that so then the grid is formed there will of course be the rolling start before we get things underway as i say the pit window is 25 to 35 minutes and the masked mechanics walk back into the pit lane the lumia rank display flashes for the pole cars we get set to go racing chamber at barski we did see racing in this series last year but he was the winner of the formula renault esports championship through the lockdown period and uh that has brought him to prominence perhaps a little more than his results in the bmw did last year his co-driver yagishiri is quick but we'll see how the car fares over the course of the year with a number of the regular gt4 teams or drivers not present this year with a circuit that's new to many of them with limited testing in recent weeks there's a real step into the unknown here so it's going to be an interesting hour that is for certain and of course we've already got a grid formed for tomorrow's race and on pole position for that is the car that's second on the grid for this race gabrielle piana did the qualifying time so with the second of the poll you suggest that on combined pace the number one one one rn vision bmw would be the car to stop we'll see whether that is how it pans out though so here the cars turning their way out of the nerve on towards tosa the audi safety car leads them around surprisingly we don't have a single hourly of the grip the gt4 r8 has been a successful car over recent seasons but uh if drivers aren't able to spend the money anymore or their sponsors aren't available and teams therefore don't have drivers then teams like phoenix and others can't go racing that said we didn't have many was it only one on the grid last year even but we have an audio representation through the safety car that leads the field around on this formation lap it will bail for the pit lane it's a rolling start so the cars don't stop on the grid we go straight into racing and uh as they work now up towards the aquaminer alley the opening round of the gt4 european season set to get underway so over the brow they come everybody trying to get the warmth of the piratey tires but it's a very sedate lapis the alfa romeo 156 at the back this is the chase car through the valley anti-altar they come everybody keen to get on with it it's been a long long wait the championship that should have begun in may and uh now with more and more porsches on the grid more of these splendid 718 style caymans for which there are now also dedicated race series got one that began a month ago a fortnight ago even in the uk for example the cars now come up towards the approach to rivatsa and then we'll get things underway under the bridge they will turn the cars now come into the double apex left of rivatsa clary who is the safety car driver will be given the instruction to up the pace to bail for the pit lane which bmw is it going to be you put your money on bash out and really because of his experience but it was such a good lap time by bologna that don't really know so into the pits should come the leading car field on this counter clockwise 4.9 kilometer long circuit gets set to go and with the lumia rank flashing shem bollock bassey on pole position bass trout and alongside in the toyota stefan lemare on the second row of the grid good to go up towards the timing line they will come it's a long long long drag up past the pits here before you get to the line itself and in a second or so the cars will be released the opening round of the gt4 european series when the lights change now is go and a good start made by bash shouting in the multi-color bmw on the outside line you've got teo nouri trying to force the way through but he gets a baseball stiff and leveraging the white toyota there's one on the grass already running out of road on the way towards temperature the bmw's are still side by side but as he goes through takes the lead from pole but shelton's second stephan liberates third fourth tio nuri fifth lucky bit of the mercedes no scrap that he's dropped a place hasn't he because evan yakimo who's also doing the gt3 race this weekend here he goes ahead of him so evan f drops to sixth and despite everybody being on their toes they've all survived the ringers of the first couple of corners although that said you've got raphael she's trying to have a moment in the background in the camaro he survives it and there even if on the outside line to the inside line in the 21 porsche goes sorry 22 porsche goes jan casper like 21 is a bit further back in the hands of your v-bar they climb the hill now and now the field accelerates up over the brown for the first time through the left hand of the pilot there 22 porsche going through that's jan casper link with the young dane bassian burst to take over and downhill right now you can see the bmw the second bash out and busy defending from the vastly experienced stefan lemare trying to keep him at bay rather than attack for the race lead so the borison automotive motorsport bmw leads the way for chamberlavasi the rn vision car in second spot in the hands of val shelton and the race-leading car to seek him his bright blue colours but barasag automotive motorsport to give it its full title has the advantage for the moment whether it's going to stay there for the hour i'm going to say i rather doubt there's the sister car which is the uh kara vera hamakio going solo replay of the start and you see the way that the two bm's got away nicely together but bonifazi able to defend from emery to the outside line goes shelton others mow the lawn as they go for the clear bit of real estate they can find but threw on the inside into tamborello uh went to pull the quality to take the race lead now they're being given a really hard time by leveraging squeezing him out to the outside ivanyakimo who prevails out of all of that lemurey was third but look behind look behind look behind it's all changed for third place tio nouret position so there he is look third is not right fourth is lamerate down a fifth is yakimo sixth is the mercedes of luke ibenith but tayo nurey is the one that really came out of that very effectively indeed so noah goes up to third place now can you get away from there nue and we have a red flag being shown now why would there be a red flag normally if there's an incident you will put the safety car out but we have a red and is this the answer well there's an incident certainly and that turns around number thirteen ibrahimovic into the gravel and he's stuck but one would have assumed that would be a safety car period not a red flag so a stoppage has been called but puzzlement reigns here everybody has got the message and slowed right down we'll have a look around the circuit and see if we can find anything key but in a race with safety car provision it's normally got to be fairly serious to stop the race you just put the safety car out so the cars make their way presumably to the grid ready for a restart so the bmw's have position now the clock carries on ticking just for the moment until the restart procedure is dictated but i am puzzled as to why you would have a red flag i really am so the cars add to the grid now we understand it might be a signage issue um we had a piece of signage that made a bid for freedom early on in the day and i think the same thing has happened again so as soon as possible we'll get things back underway but the fear being that you'd have a long safety card period and very little racing one gathers so the race stopped so the cars will make their way to the grid they'll grid up in order but they are now so this race suspension therefore you carry on once the race director is happy to release the cars so the clock carries on ticking but when the race resumes that'll be added on at the end so don't um think this is necessarily eating into the hour the uh the time will be added on so there is the order they don't grid up they park up in formation ready for the race to continue and hopefully it won't be that long but presumably you need lots of track workers out there and it wouldn't be ideal to have the car still circulating so you see the different brands represented they're the drivers behind the wheel on the graphic so chamberlava maintaining the race lead drivers opening the doors desperate to get a bit of cool air in they might only have done a couple of laps work but they've been sitting in them of course for many many minutes prior to the race start and now the team's on the pit wall talking to the drivers trying to find out why and what happens next and for how long so they're a great vantage point family's watching on from overlooking robots and the field will resume as soon as possible i did get going as you see so although we saw him spin into the gravel he got going again but is it the foot of the field so that's the legacy of oculi's incident so the boris automotive at motorsport bmw that was in the gravel road this was a replay of the grid start as it were the rolling start and the positioning bmw of chamberlain going into the race lead but he had to work hard for it by shouting right alongside him as they dive down towards the tamborello everybody safely through that section of the circuit and then accelerating on towards the nerve with the pole sitting bmw trying to edge away almost running out of road in the corvette but getting away with it as the corvette did have a part to play in ochiai's demise didn't it that was a fairly um rude effort on the inside and the morrison automotive bmw into the gravel bed right so there is the field ready to go so personnel onto the grid is this ready for the resumption let's see the estimated restart is not i'm afraid for another eight minutes so a lengthy job this [Music] seemingly and in the heavy storms that we had on thursday night into friday they become damaged and loosened and so rather than keep having to patch up all the signage is going to be removed so um it will be taken down and then we won't have the problem again from the bridge and then we can go not around the whole circuit just one particular aspect so as soon as that's done then we'll be good to go but it's going to be as i say quite a few minutes yet before we have action on track all of which of course knocked on into the qualifying session for the opening round of gt world challenge europe that's due at the end of the day and uh the driver's frustrated of course about all of this but they will get the race back underway as soon as possible so it's been a good first couple of laps by champ in the leading car to hang on to that race lead the borussia automotive motorsport bmw fending off the challenge of the more experienced bashouten and then tio nueve benefiting from the action at tamborello to get himself up into third place but i wonder whether lemmere hasn't been put back ahead of him in the uh little shuffle though it might not be true that i'm seeing that but there's certainly a little bit of shuffling a moment ago however um things will sort themselves out when the race gets back underway all being well 16 33 is the estimated restart time so that's still seven minutes off and then of course the race will continue and uh the race officials will worry about what uh the stoppage is done the next lap of the race will of course be within the time but not an overtaking that not a proper racing that because you'll have the safety car so shambala bars are getting ready to go again let's have another look at the first couple of laps of the race just while we await the restarts everybody from that rolling start accelerating away and it was the vander r bogart's bmw from further back a big which was the one that got squeezed out onto the grass survived it and he went through the first chicane teo nue emiasta martin hung out to dry a little bit on the outside but slotted back in in fourth place carl's accelerating their way down through the approach to viola for the first time with again shouting all over the back of the race leader but not able to find a way by stephan lamare leaping over the curb and then the cars uphill through pelatella down the other side chamberlain getting away a little bit with then having to go defensive in his second place bash shelton they're further down the order is the shield vanillae nikolai gomer aston martin nikolai gomar who's been a regular on lamborghini super trafeo grids opening lap contact ibrahimoki given a hit and shoulder by jack rappanch he was in the gravel himself in qualifying one and that put the bmw into the gravel he got out but he's at the back of the pack so while the race is suspended subject to the approval of the stewards and the constraints of the event timetable the length of the race suspension may be added to the remaining time for the race so it's not a guarantee it's more than likely that it will be added on even though we've got lots of action to come still you can't change drivers of course the drivers are allowed to get out of their cars remove helmets and gloves but must remain with their cars if they so desire uh only officials run out on the grid and then uh the cars will be allowed to go as soon as possible there will be a resumption as soon as possible the cars do one more lap but of course it eats into the time and then we will be in business and still the restart is estimated at 1633 so it's not shifted which is moderately good news that said i'm not seeing any boards yet so the next activity on the track at imola due to start at half past five and you'll have therefore worked out that we've got more gt4 race to go that will fit in before the qualifying session for gt3 starts which gives everybody some rather logistical worries however as soon as the race gets back underway we'll keep tabs on most importantly he was doing what there's the mandatory pit stop window of course to accommodate as well the teams on the porsches in the pit road you've got orlando sport you've got the allied racing team and also century porsche ticino there are one or two people that have made it in keen to see the cars so that from the balcony there's one view and most people only really with a view from the pit lane big frustration for the drivers wanting to get on with it they've waited a long time for their opening race of the season and the race having to be suspended for safety purposes the auto orlando team not that eager for the restart or the resumption i should say really of the race right a yellow flag appears and that gives a bit of optimism so chad will expansion the battle continues in the two bmw's rival teams we have got stephan lamarre back into third place ahead of tio nue why that change has happened i'm not sure so we have got to a few seconds away from 33 and are we any closer to getting things underway i wonder yes we are we go for initially a green which means move so we're under yellow flag conditions for the moment safety car of course to restart and we will be in business at the end of this lap and there you see the time is added on so we've virtually got the whole hour back 57 minutes of the race so the clock resets now as the cars leave the line it's at that point that the timekeeping service can add the time from the restart and the time of the red flag work out the difference and uh give us that time back again so it knocks out a kill to the rest of the program for the day because everything's going to be running very late but at least the race will get its full time in it also means i suspect that we'll have uh podium ceremonies for gt4 drivers with gt3 cars out on track but that will be the first time as timetables are rattled through so the safety car will peel in this time we'll be back to racing and get back underway on this lap three so they're ready to go chamber of commerce position leading the race as the cars come out of the valley anthony alta are we going to see bow shouts on the restart make a dive for the race lead is he going to be on his toes can he find an opportunity to make a move and make the move stick so here we go race about to resume the green flag is ready and so too is shem bonifazi as the pole position driver the race leader and bash out and he's almost on the rear wing of the car stefan liberty at the toyota is ready to have a go as well as they come now up towards the timing line race back underway and everybody storms clear with bottle of moving across the inside line there to try and hang onto the race lead which he does and again on his toes look he's even yakimo in the number seven one eight porsche of the pro-am and she is trying to gain a place on the way down towards the tamborrello can't do it and so the leading bmw comes through with chair bonifazi up front right there on his tail then it won't want one it's bash shout out and shout and has a look alongside his eager to get through he knows i think that if he can get by he can pull clear but he's able to fend him off pretty much everywhere at the moment buff shelton has got lemorade behind him look at the energy put into the second place bmw is off the road goes even yakimo in the porsche gets back onto the road but loses out as they're up and past him goes number 22 which is the yan casper started car the leaders then as pretty much one if anything stefan lemare in the toyota is really on his toes because he's looking one side and then the other they get past bash carlton as they come over the ground of the hill in fourth place there look you've got tio nueve and the leading quartet escaping slightly now over in fifth place the mercedes of leukemia and then it's six spot you've got ivanyakimo just being able to keep at bay 22 jan casper blick in the allied racing car the pale blue car so there are the bmws one and two leverage dropped back all of a sudden he was right there as they went into aqua minerals he's a long way back as they climb the hill out of it [Music] race leaders together then as they are about to drop down the hill hard on the brakes turns the aston martin of t o newey in fourth place now lebree of course having been on the attack up the hill he's on the defensive as he comes down the hill so he's dropping away from the two bms up towards the timing line they come all the poll sitters haven't already received their first prize of the year in each class they give a sativa watch say well done on pole position chamber of bowser then we'll know exactly what the gap is he can measure it on his new watch as he goes across the timing line bash shouting is behind him in second spotlight as they go by there further down the order look mark vanderhoff comes up alongside jan casperlik bmw alongside porsche bmw one and two toyota looking really high off the ground in comparison with others at runs third in fourth place still he's aston martin fifth mercedes six porsche seventh bmw eight porsche ninth now uh yorkville's porsche and tenth he's nicola gomar in the aston martin as the cars come now through fielder but lemare having to really work hard to keep uh t.o newey at bay goes one side then the other as they dive into toaster the road of course turns and climbs even if in the mercedes in fifth place ex-geneta racer right there now the lead gap just surprisingly extending ever so slightly as they climb the hill there uh getting away from up the hill goes luke even if he's crawling all over the back now of the aston martin of teo noah and that just takes the pressure off stefan lavery a little bit as they come now through the variant out there on to the power there they are third fourth fifth liberate the toyota the toyota supra gr entry the kazoo racing car downhill there it is with dropping off the back a little bit in sixth place there seven one eight the green porsche in the hands of evaniac mark vander i the bmw there 110 in the queue attacking defending nikolai gomar in 89 aston martin also through so there's a lot that can shake out of this race yet with 51 minutes still on the clock leaders up across the timing line and chamberlain rousey getting away from in second place bow shroud over the line the allied racing portion but look at the lead gap all of a sudden brother bowser has got on with the job and he's away isn't he's gone so that margin widens between the two of them stefan lemare in third place not really able to capitalize at the moment because he's a bit busy defending from nue and even if yakima is still sick casper like vander rb and germa are rounding out the top ten but right now barak bazi already over a second clear has got a very good opportunity here to build up that gap yet further before we get to the pit stop window 25 to 35 minutes is the window 105 seconds is the pit stop time down the hill goes lemma right so the hugely experienced belgian driver he's raised most things and he's written about most things he's raised fending off the taiyo newer aston martin still there in fifth place luke even if now how much do you push in the first stint well if you're the quicker of the two drivers you want to try and go for broke and build up a gap especially in this context given that all the gaps came down under the stoppage however if you are a slower you just need to keep in the mix so that your co-driver doesn't have too much work to do in the second part of the race one of the great fascinations is a slow starter and a fast driver in the second stitch of watching a gap come down it's become more relevant in recent days because more races have safety cars and uh therefore if there's a late race safety car you always want your quick driver in at the end but long before safety cars became the norm in double driver races there was always the interest of somebody with a quick driver first against the team with a quick driver in the second stint and watching how the race panned out between them there over the timing line is the mercedes of ivanis stephanie lemare goes through still hanging on to third place now chairman there he is getting away the gap up another three tenths now one point four seconds being the margin between the top two so full of azi pulling clear drawing away the second stint though for the second place car bastion will give way to the very rapid gabrielli piana so don't rule the car out but still very definitely in the mix lemorade all over the curve running in third place their fifth still is luke and as the cars here turn their way through climb the hill now i can see the way that the lead gap is widening and i just wonder whether lemorade might even have a chance at getting up onto terms with trousers for second place yes he is because he's lacking slightly quicker in the sectors and also lapping quicker in the first sector is uh so the gaps coming down between second and third of the battle pack they're behind it 110 drops downhill mark vanderhoff and yakimo fending off the porsche attacker of yang caspari so the two caymans the gt4 mr manti racing they're together as lameray fends off teo nui as they climb the hill now up into the chicane through the very empty outer they go downhill plunges mark van der r chasing this gaggle up front is his teammate bashaus and ahead of him though out of everybody for baraton automotive motorsports is chairman of as he comes now towards the line and way out wide goes basha rattles it over the gravel and over the curve that's going to delay him but lemare not close enough to take full advantage of that and he's still also mindful as to where tio nue is behind it there are the race leaders you see what i mean about this long long drag past the pits they go through now [Music] so chamberlain leads the way bash shelton is now 2.4 seconds back that really has opened up markedly over the last lap or so almost the point where you think that now uh trout is just going to drive to the pit window and let gabriella piano do the hard work it was a bold effort early on but certainly now as he's getting a bit more confident in the car is getting away so the real world racer the sim champion formula champion is there up front that's crawling all over the back of lebron is the only look even if he's still fifth if anyakimo is six [Music] going on between aston martin and mercedes well no not yet he's doing his best but there's still a bit of real estate to make up there's the chevrolet camaro of yasura parsh i don't think he's being looked at the incident with akiya it might be that the akiyai team have other ideas about what should happen but for the moment i'm not aware that he's being investigated for that contact that we saw early on there is yak rapage the v8 racing chevrolet comes downhill but teo nue giving a very hard time to stephan lemore here as they drop down through rivatsa the two elements of that left-hander the stubby supra ready to accelerate its weight now up towards the line louise still fourth in the aston fifth of the mercedes luke even f [Music] so 15 minutes done another ten pit window will open [Music] over the timing line go the midfield runners but there champa look welcomes advantage now is up against 2.7 seconds and an effort made by lugibre to try to dislodge teo nue from fourth place he's not done it yet but the gunmetal mercedes he's on the prowl look goes one side and then the other way fends him off that allows lemare to escape up the road away at the cover all sideways goes knew even if neither got a face full of the aston martin dive bombers him on the inside and toaster i'm coming through he says elbows out luke is through job done that rides the aston martin wide up the curb mateo nueva has not given up look they're still side by side as they climb the hill the aston has the ground and he's back ahead yes fantastic stuff today goes back ahead luke immediate in the mercedes can't fend him off as they climb the hill so he's going to do it all over again downhill now heading towards aquaman ali and tayo newey great racing this from both of them he's back ahead of luke vanessa [Music] so if nes climbs the hill they're trying to find a way back ahead of tio nueve here as they work their way once more into the valley at the alta go through the right from the left onto the power get ready to drop downhill [Music] so there you have the look ivan yes mercedes right on the back of teo no eight what he's got passed once but can he do it again can he stay there the pick window approacher as the leaders go by now teddy will lie leader singular because so far ahead now is that he's leaving a long way adrift and the margin is 2.677 seconds now it's a big big gap between the top two there is bowshot still bouncing it over the curve as they turn by t o newey running in for fourth place i should say behind stephan lemare now who is six that he's even yakima is he getting closer to that leading group where's the leading cayman not even in shock so the answer to that is a definite no the seven one eight game are just not getting near enough for the moment the porsche to be fair to it you're on the busy keeping the sister car a similar car of yank casper liquor bay and mark as well this is how nue lost his play to that back got all sideways at fielder evening f went for the inside line absolutely dive bombed him got through but tio nueve stood his ground on the outside line and got back ahead of the brown for help so now as they turn through the replay new way back clear and now actually shaking off the challenge by a couple of lengths that gap has just opened up slightly so out of the valley anti-altar once again they turn race leaders drop down towards the approach to that sir now bashouten is as i say 2.6 seconds off the lead he's one and a half seconds clear of lemare is that going to come down enough before the pit stop window to suggest a change of place i wonder through they turn on the power fourth and fifth go through which is still the way ahead of ivan yes and we're going to get lefrey are we not because there look ibrahimovia who's stopped anyway because he gets an extra 10 seconds in the pits for being a soloist um he's had a very slow stint here i'm trying to work out why i haven't caught up to everybody he's dropped so far down again but drop down he will and he's going to be lapped as well so he's had a pit stop that's the reason why we didn't see it but he's been in so ibrahimokia back onto the circuit and about the girl that down to his teammate here's the great battle between the porsches so it is ahead of young casper and mark vander r is next up look in eighth place your v-bahn is in ninth a little bit further behind them but it's at the moment the car of central porsche ticino ahead of allied racing and yank asphalt crawling all over the back there of yakima as they come in towards toe so is there a gap on the inside line well if there was he wasn't able to take advantage of it so casper has to sit back try again mark vanderhoff in the bmw adding to the variety that gt4 has you got two discernible sports cars at the head of this the queue and then you've got what's effectively a touring car behind but the m4 bmw which was the championship winning car of last year simon count and alex udall remember right there behind the portions and showing that the bop works nicely in this the caymans and the m4 running together [Music] so up the hill goes jan casper like running in seventh place for the moment the allied racing porsche flicks into the chicane lots of curb taken by casper like in the mid point is he going to be able to power down the hill and make a move we are about five minutes if that now from the pick window opening so through the approach to rival so they come there for century porsche ticino is ivan yakuma the swiss ahead of jan casper and mark vander alder flying dutchman is next in that battle pack as the cars now run with all of the curve being used out of relaxer and the speed builds as they come past the pits remember that immolar will be back as a formula one venue this year with the reshaped calendar changing almost on a weekly basis as more venues more countries come on stream happy to host races and hard on the brakes going now into the tamborello once more is this fight for sixth place yakima keeping casper lick and vander r at bay and again you get the feeling now that casper lick is the quicker of the three but vander r is crawling all over the back of him because casper like has got a bit stuck and he can't find a way ahead of the green and black cayman in the hands of evan jacob just up on the road ahead of him here they come to tosa there is a gap on the inside but casper like he's not near enough to have a go there bmw again on the attack as they climb the hill now and because he's on the attack so casper drops back ever so slightly [Music] they drop down the hill once more is it going to be near enough to make a move as there look you've got the lapped abraham akiya about to be negotiated by the second place bmw that in the hands of bashout so the race leader already away and gone and uh now through goes shouted 2.9 seconds the margin so it has widened the game between but partly because of the traffic there still you've got the fight for fourth taiyo louie just being able to fend off the challenge coming from luke ibanez but the race leader was 2.9 seconds to the good last time wait for the beam to be broken there is shambhala fazi and secondly with bow shot and the gap is 3.4 seconds so it's quite a big margin now between the two now flying lap at the moment is a 152 so at the end of the next lap but one i suspect uh we'll be thinking pit stop window they're still accelerating through is the number fifteen mercedes look he only has at the wheel of it and he's having another go at the aston of knew a look as they come towards field there is going to be able to go by not there he's not stephan lemare still hanging onto that third place and again but we asked him he's all ragged coming through veal nerve steps up onto the curb not quite as ragged as it was four or five laps back but if only f having another goes they climbed the hill here so with the advantage at 3.4 seconds a long way gone up the road and ivan yeah still looking for a way to get ahead here of tayo nuen as they drop down the hill once again into akumarali you can see the clock ticking on down so when you get to 35 minutes to go the pit window opens it's a very brief 10 minute period and of course if you get your pit stop timings wrong all the evidence is there from the timekeeping data penalties fly so we'll see whether people win or lose on their pit work here because they'll be a bit out of practice in some cases [Music] so there up the curve goes stefan lemare still third and now he's going to try and find a way past here behind the fbi who's to say he's had one pit stop he's got another one to do the regulation pissed off as if he had bounces wide over the curb of the grouse and the gravel but akiyai will lose yet further time because you've got an extra 10 seconds to add on in that pit stop for being a solo driver it wasn't by design i hated to add but his co-driver wasn't able at the last minute to come there of course still travel dramas for some people uh in order to get to achieve their racing so it's far from easy all of this for anybody at the moment they're in fourth place is thier newer so now the question is coming as to who's going to be the quicker driver per car in the second stint there's still a lot to look for in the next part of the race and the pit window is going to open this time now as i said earlier on in the majority of cases you've got the slower driver doing the first step even yet way way wide absolutely under attack all of a sudden from t.o newegg pressure release on the aston suddenly he's on the back of their look of the third place toyota if only manages to hang on to what could have been a big moment gets away with it but is in a leading car the pace that's is offered by jagish gedi going to have the same effects as chamberlogi in the open extent so there's the leading car over the curb rattles chair on the frozen three goes there for second and third see the gap coming down it's four seconds between the top two it was one point seven seconds a third but it's going to be less than that but equally t o newey having just at the moment be able to get rid of the challenge from behind of luke ibn yet he's almost with him as well so there heading towards the timing line another lap at the book chamber of course in a pick window as you see is open so drivers get ready that [Music] and do we have people coming in yes we do bashout and is in to give way perhaps understandably to gabriele piana very experienced porsche racer so driver out driver in stefan lembre bounces over the curves there and even if not as spectacular as a lap ago but he's still pushing on no question about it so there the race leading cart the bmw which are to be fair and perhaps just a surprise of some dominating the opening stint chamberlain has absolutely stormed away with this up into second place for the moment stefan lemare that we'll see whether he preserves that into the second stint [Music] tio newey still owned third place in fourth place now with the pit stop shuffling the order luke you can see the damage that he's done by going through the gravel at field nerve on a couple of occasions he's got a bit of trim flapping on that left rear corner through the chicane goes the second third fourth place battle [Music] even if you give oh and he's got a drama flat suddenly smoke comes from a corner now he's been going over curbs and through gravel is that bodywork against a tyre let's have a look when the car turns i think that's the tire that's gone down or suspension breakage in fact so by rattling it over the curbs that looks like suspension damage on the mercedes and that's probably the end of the day is it not any comes so suddenly the car sat down i thought it was a tire but having looked at it it looks like it's a possible suspension drama and the smoke has been the bodywork rubbing against the tyre as the weight has all changed so down the pit road comes in here but that could be the end of the mercedes let's see so chamberlain basically still leads the way there's the mercedes in ahead of him okay but the mercedes flicks to its box the team will go to work now it could be a tire it could be a wheel let's see they'll need to get the wheel off can't what made her assess so they'll do the driver change xavier javarez gets into the car but i'm not convinced that's going a whole lot further we'll see as chamber of climbs the hill once again with still half the race to run 31 minutes are on the clock here crashes over the curb doesn't he but he going really nicely a little bit of correction there as he makes the run up the hill once again so remember it's 105 seconds hit in to pit out and i'm trying to interpret the reaction of the team as i think that's job done it's a breakage for number 15 mercedes i think i saw the time-honoured finger across the throat just here to say that's it we're done down the pit road also there look comes the dario character porsche now interestingly here chamberlain is going a long way in this first stint is he in this time let's see let's see let's see no another lap now all of this suggests therefore that he is the quicker of the two doesn't he's maximizing his time behind the wheel staying out to try and give the best opportunity possible to juggish get it as the co-driver over the timing line he has gone for the moment the road is only his because the pit lane is pretty busy there's ibrahimoki after 115 seconds in the pits rather than 105 for everybody else easy gets the extra time the second of the borussian automotive cars so there one one one gabrielle piana who has lost the best part of the lap against the leader but of course that'll all flip back on the pit stops and piano now is on the charge he's done the absolute best of anybody within sector one in the race so as perhaps expected gabrielle piana as soon as he comes onto the circuit means business there is the race leading bmw [Music] makes the climb up the hill over the brow now into the pits comes 110 so this is mark vanderhoff to give way to buggers the rn vision sts team goes to work they're also in his rapage handing over to taiman navoers in that chevrolet camaro drivers both new to gt4 european series this year but great to have that car on the grid it was a great race at the nurburgring a good few seasons ago where the road was greasy not properly wet but that car with dunkin houseman at the wheel of it sideways coming onto the pit straight lap after lap something to behold uh there goes then gabrielli piana as back into the race goes the aston martin so now teo nue has given over in that car and valentin asclo is behind the wheel so gabriella piana straight away an absolute two personal bests pressing on the order of course will sort itself out after the pit window is closed with chamberlake basically going as long as he can here before he serves his obligatory pit stop so there is the leader in out gets bored in gets yeah being reminded that he's got to help with the seat belts it's always the polite thing to do for your co-driver it also helps the flow of the pit stop but of course if you've been in the car you and your co-driver are effectively a bubble for modern day purposes so there the stop cycles through so can the car come out in the race lead and can even if it doesn't the pace of gaelic be comparable to piano [Music] so staying out a long time just if he gets he takes over the lead of the race but he's going to have to bail shortly so it's a phony lead really there is chamberlain walking away the turkish driver's work is done fellow countrymen yag gets away now but remember gabriella piana is already well into his stride he's in a rhythm he knows the circuit now he knows what the car feels like he's confident he's up to pace whereas yagesh is only now gonna set off in the race and here's the change of lead imminent look because one out of the pits through into the lead of the race it will go gabriella piana picks up position as he goes by and there valentine asks clown third so gabriele piana is the new race leader barring anything but it's going to happen on reviewing pit stop time he's not aware that anything needs looking at he leads ahead of getting in second place and balancer third that was a massive advantage that the bmw had he's lost the lead and it's about to lose second place so where did all of the time go because barack obama's he looked like he was doing a very good job here's a change imminent for second place there's very little that get it can do seemingly now this will be heartbreaking for bob bazie in the pit lane watching it all but valentin asked khloe right there now but it's also proving is that although the pace of politbuzzi was good with him staying out against the quicker drivers in the other cars they were net bringing down the gap balancer as clown looks to the inside line again going up towards peritela can't go by there now he tries the outside line can't think about that particularly unless the car ahead of a real real problem so here yagishi having to really adapt quickly to the pressure from the aston martin behind gets a little bit sideways forcing us clo over the curb valentine now goes over the brown of the hill through the chicane they flick now look at the background gail castle the french gt champion is there in fourth place he's been a french one mate champion as well so gail castle a very experienced driver very successful driver he ought to be up with this leading pack before long i think piano is going to drive away now looking at this but for second and third possibly fourth place is the battle is on is it not because valentin asked khloe he's right there on the tail of the aggies behind the pair he's gail castelli rojo mafia's fifth and in sixth place bastian bruce so there goes the leader gabriele piana well clear in the lead now where they turn out of tambarello liar on his own so how quickly things change the pace that piano was putting in while be relatively not as quick bmw in the hands of bologna stayed out there the gap was coming down and down and down and on the pit stops it changes there's gail casterly looked right up with the three [Music] ahead over the two ahead for second and third places so he's on the tail now off the battle to the inside line looks the aston martin as they climb the hill once more so valentin asclo trying to make the move casterly in the queue behind and actually to be fair to yagishkay he's doing a good job of defending here he's not rolled over and let him go by he has uh made that bmw as wide as he possibly can thus far as long as he possibly can through the aqua minerali once more they turn climb the hill over the brown that through the chicane the field currently on lap 19 23 minutes of the race to go and down the hill under the bridge into rivatsa once again so second third fourth with third being asclo and four for the white toyota which you've gotta say is having a very impressive european gt4 series debut here in the hands of gal casterly up towards the timing line they will come or break the beam in a moment but gabrielle piana is away in golf so the leading bmw that of course is the silver cup leading car as well clear of jagish gadick doing a good job in second spot as i say now that he's got himself into a rhythm and he's shaken off to a decrease some of the energy being put in by asclo he in turn has got to think about gail casterly on his tail in fourth spot the curls come through together hit window is now closed and once more into tamborello go the [Music] leaders so there gail castelli climbs up hill he's almost on the tail of valentine asclo who still surprisingly perhaps can't find a way past the bmw ahead of him of jagishgating they come towards the pilotella now that 20 and the leading gap is eight seconds so piano has disappeared up the road well and truly gone italian gabriella piana knows this has closed charles when he pulls out and has a go the gate moves across on him pretty aggressive stuff but asclo keeps on coming he's got the inside line but he can't find a way by there again late on the brakes and all over the curve as the bmw but it's going to be an online look he's compromised the exit he rattles out wide and balancer asclo gets up alongside him but the bmw stands his ground look downhill heading towards rivatsa on the inside for the next corner will be the bmw on the inside for the next part of the circuit is going to be the aston martin but no ascola has to sit there behind him fabulous racing this valentin asclo again tries to line up for a go on the inside line tickles the back of the bmw and he's the one that comes off worse sideways off through the gravel back onto the racetrack and balance our asclo out and back but he's lost a place so with all of that through into third comes the toyota in the hands of gail casterly up in the third place and you see the time lost by valentine's clown the aston martin he's dropped a long long way back but that bmw is just impregnable doesn't matter what you do you can't find a way past it so jagish gadick is still second despite everything that house club has thrown at him they're in third now gail castelli in the toyota it comes up to have a go for position so can't caster they prevail where others have failed let's see intertosa still 20 minutes of the race to go the bmw hangs onto position as they go now through the left up the hill out wide up the curb slightly goes to bm but nothing to worry about there he hangs onto the place well enough casterly now into position behind and while all this is going on gabrielle piana is very nearly at the nurburgring for the next round so far ahead is it he comes now over the brown for hill makes the run once again uh up towards the variant altar but he has just dominated this stint he's away and gone and has looked so so strong comes out of the chicane curb on the outside line here's the fight for second gail casterly again lines up for a look but he can't go by [Music] so toyota on the tail bmw just up the road ahead now they drop down the hill once more [Music] casterly brakes hard turns into rivatsa but you've seen the trouble getting past this bmw it's a fairly big car it's got a lot of grunt and it's also when required very aggressive in the way it's being driven gaelic taking no prisoners as they say comes over the line so the leaders go past the pits the lead margin 11 seconds now and behind what have we got well still gail cassidy is there on the tail can he find a way through not there he can't what he needs to do now is trying to apply the pressure to start a move and perhaps execute it going into tosa and make the run going up the hill so the cars nose to tail for second and third places again out wide goes the bmw toyota to the inside line now this is gail cassidy's charge there's contact between the two as ganesh tries to move across on him doesn't give him any room at all castle he keeps on coming gets the inside line going into pirotella and he's got the job done don't think that'll have done much damage to either car but it was a scare they could have done without the aggish gaiden does not like being overtaken but gail cassidy has done it he's gone through and look released suddenly he's away now with 17 and three-quarter minutes to go i don't think he's going to be able to get onto terms with the leader in that time but he's going to have a good go that is for sure [Music] downhill comes the fight between what he's now third and fourth asclo back onto the tail of the blue bmw and say things i've been here before and this time he dives up the inside and the door was left open for him there so was gadish caught napping or is he realizing that he's on borrowed time either way compared to how he defended a couple of laps back there that was a completely different story and the aston martin has probably never had his easier pass through goes as close they're not into third place but the bm fights back look as they come over the line look at the grunt it's gone genius just powers past him again round the outside no not able to do it under braking the inside line claimed by valentine's clownie goes back through but extraordinary stuff this the way that the bmw is able to defend as best it can and it's got so much pace understandable that the even quicker car of piano is so far ahead up the road now so with 16 minutes on the clock draw breath what have we got the lead gap is 13 seconds piano it's his race to lose but behind him for second and third places you've got gail casterly then valentin asclo fourth he's get it kamafias is fifth and bastian bruce running in sixth place here's the replay of the toyota's move so have a look at this up the hill tighter line employed by the white toyota custody is alongside the blue bmw of geddish but gettys tries to move across and wait for the contact now the toyota standing its line the bmw tries to squeeze tries to squeeze there's the touch they got away with that very lightly so in one one one gabrielle piana heads towards the end of another lap thinking i don't remember it being this easy in european gt4 series he comes up towards the timing line now he will break the beam as he goes through [Music] now there's the second and third place fight casterly versus asclo the gap between the two of them as they come over the timing line was a second and a half but the aston looking a lot nearer might be an optical illusion we'll see but as the beam is broken now it is nine tenths yeah the gap is coming down so valentine's clock is catching he is drawing nearer and up front 15 seconds is the gap between the top two so piano is away and gone no question through turns the number 12 bmw then so yagishi dropping back into fourth place and you can see having lost those two places he's lost a big big chunk of time to confirm what we thought we'd seen in the pit stops as well look ibanith car did so flavio denied a chance to go racing today still pushing still pushing still pushing as he drops downhill once again into the aqua mineral here so is the climbs the hill the aston martin in third place [Music] i can that has to marty get close enough as you see the race leader work into the traffic not past the pits they will come here but gabriella piana turns through 13 minutes on the clock what about the relative lap times of gail cassidy in the toyota and valentine the last lap 52-8 plays a 52-8 there's hundreds between them these two very evenly matched at the moment and we've got one car that's being investigated for speeding in the pit lane it is the chevrolet that's down in ninth place it's not going to affect mass as much up front if anything comes of it but the car is being investigated for speeding in the pit lane as you see valentine has closed in third also the incident between numbers 8 and 12 which was the bm of the toyota that little bit of contact we saw climbing the hill that's being looked at by the stewards as well to see if anybody was at fault out of tosat goes jagishgari climbs the hill behind here but a long way behind him nearly six seconds there look is joel comathius so gadick turns through the turkish driver in the bmw heading pro am because the cars ahead are all in the silver cup so even if it's not an outright win there's a pole position award for of course the amount that set the time uh chamberlain that was also a class win for the two drivers on the cards as well here there is the program standing so it's getting ahead of kamathius bus nicholas madison i'm surprised hasn't been able to drag the porsche closer to the pecking order and then cave alberlo behind in fifth place there way out wide over the curb evidence if you like how hard he's pushing is gerald comathius but he's only five seconds back he's 25 seconds off the lead yes but he's only five seconds back from the class lead so as he comes down the hill might have a chance here 11 minutes still to go could be on there the allied racing porsche is going past way out wide bouncing over the curb there bastian burst as he chases through and even wider behind was nikolai muller madsen so over the timing line goes mafias bastian bus versus nikolai mother madison and their relative positions here in the gaps rather illustrate the pace of their co-drivers within stint one they're heading downhill is stefan o'valley who is the am class leader stefan ovalle having taken over that car from palo alto and he's on the way now up towards the completion of a lap so over the timing line goes the bmw and the valley is in turn a long way clear now gill vanilla who is the class opposition having taken over from nicola gomer so here's another strong bmw tell you what immolar and the bms are happy bedfellows aren't like this car looking strong in its class just like the uh proam car is so ten more minutes of the opening round of the gt4 european series there's giovanna lake running second in the am cup and then in third spot now you've got salvatore riolo again for porsche so bmw aston martin porsche one two and three in the am cup so the variety and the brands and also the order the fact that no one brand was dominated very encouraging indeed salvatore riolo then in the autolando sport porsche rides the hill it was all orlando sports if you remember that won the very first ever as it then was block panning during series race monster when the championship started and it won it on fuel economy as well as garland experience but it was a really good effort put in by auto orlando in that effort in that race there is still chasing gail castelli down to the left right the approach to the nerve goes the toyota [Music] and try as he might as club not being able to recover from that moment he had about 10 laps back now to bring down the gaps efficiently the leaders go by sixth and seventh battle that gaps come right down look because bastian burst has been reeled in by nikolai mala madsen former audi tt cup star muller madison closing on new to car racing bastian bus moving up from karting and their drama because the mercedes has a puncture that's kay van burlow who was 10th in the srt car and that's coming out of tamborello isn't it so he's got a long long long long way to go that has started that has hit him at the start of a lap and he's not going to survive he pulls the car off so cave amber with a very flat tyre indeed he's out of the race [Music] so you have one mercedes with suspension breakage and then on the opposite rear corner we have a puncture for k bamberlo so i wonder what it is that he's run over that has caused that downhill dropped their 22. nikolai malamadson adapting to the porsche having moved from audis for this season he's on the power as he comes sprinting up towards the line here so yellow flag in sector one on the lap because of the top stationary above the side of the road and they're into the tamborello sequence are charging john comathius bastian boost nikolai malamadson not that far adrift kuhn bhagats is in eighth place in the bmw but mafia is here even though i think he's being caught by the allied racing twins is he safe let's see the gap does seem to have come down market over the last couple of laps only three seconds sorry 2.4 seconds now between fifth and sixth so kamathius might be on borrowed time now six and a half minutes still to [Music] run so there are the allied racing twins now do they go all out position or the only team orders well they're run by the same team yes but different co-drivers different drivers paying bills they want to have the best result possible don't they and in the case of these drivers these are the guns for hire whose job is to go as rapidly as possible get the best results they can so i think this is going to go down to the wire this battery's got six minutes still on the clock out wide there goes bastion booster model mounted will challenge as they come down the hill here lines up to have a go but they real estate just vanishes molly madison keeps on coming though he's got the inside line and he's done it breaks late goes through good brave driving that bastian bus tries to get the switch back and get the place at rivatsa too but he can't do it so nikolai malamadson makes it stick excellent work but as he comes by [Music] over the timing line once again here so past the pits they go and they're breaking hard for tamborello nikolai mala madison sets off in pursuit of joel comatheus now he has got to make up 2.8 seconds and he's got five minutes in which to do it it's possible he's taking bastian boos with him i'll grant you but it is possible that he might gain another position before the very end of the race here camachous pace does seem to be ebbing away for whatever reason so the allied racing cars up towards toaster georgia mafia's former formula 3000 racer raced in the le mans series he's racing fia gt had a spell in uh chat car of course going back a long long time back into 2003 he's raced at the ball but joel comatheus here is oddly losing pace four minutes to go as nikolai mother madison presses on six spot taking bastian bus with him bastian boos you get the feeling he's doing a very clever thing he's not been able to fend off muller madison so let him go but he's just sitting on his tail so the line is there the speed is there he just mirrors him and through he goes stays on the back of his teammate and he turns gets closer to joel camacho's they're both out wide coming out of the valley and the altar but as they drop down the hill now come in sector one was hundreds quicker and actually tends quicker in sector two i think he's getting the hurry up from the team here over the ship to shore saying come on get on with it you're being caught so joel mathias can't have a easy run home for fifth in the century porsche ticino car he's gonna have to work for him there is seven one eight that's the car in the hands of jealous mafia stem so this caiman that we're talking about is the seven one eight or as the germans would have it seven eighteen iteration number one one one the bmw m4 of rn vision sts that's the team gabrielle piano the man behind the wheel and it's going to be a win for him and bas charlton as they come down the hill here gabrielle piana drove the bmw last year of course in gt4 so he knows the car inside out and the italian who moved to live near the nordschleife to calm a name for himself in what was vln racing and endurance gt racing is gaining in his reputation all the time here it's very rapid that is for sure he's going to get at least one more that maybe two out of this before the end comes down the hill here what about second place well gail castelli i think he's settling now he knows he's a long way back and it's going to be a very difficult task to try and catch four position here so the cmr classic and modern racing run toyota first time we've seen it in european gt4 and it's gonna be a second place for the long-nosed stubby-backed supra up towards the timing line it comes chasing for third valentine's so there's time for one more lap at the end of this and that's close another one settling for position isn't it he's falling back now so the race leading cars start seeming to the penultimate lap of the race so we're going to have the silver cup that'll be the pro amp and of course the am classes soon to be resolved and all of a sudden the gap comes right down and around the outside goes ask clown now as the trader got a problem or is it just a mistake gail capsule losing chunks of time and balance close that must be fuel because the car's got a problem look struggling up the hill drinking from side to side almost like he's trying to get the last vestiges of the fuel well they were sitting on the grid for a while of course under that red flag but the toyota suddenly looks like it's low on fuel or has a fuel pickup problem you have to pick up what you're low on i'll grant you but even so that is a car that is all of a sudden struggling massively so gail castelli is about to lose one maybe two maybe three more places before the end that's another laugh he's gonna have to trickle around here and so gail casterly looked the car he's being nursed to the flag so what was set to be an impressive maiden second place now looks like it ain't gonna happen bmw goes back ahead and then john camacho's he's ready to pass the toyota has barely got any life he did at all as it comes out to the very end the altar and gail cassidy is trying to keep out of line he's on the grass to let the quicker cars go by is he going to park it let's see the porsches go by toyota back on the road this bit he's okay he can coast down the hill but when he has to go up a hill he's in real strife and where is the toyota there it is so it looks as though fuel is the problem down the hill he's okay again jinking side to side to try and pick up the last drops in the tank but it could all go horribly quiet on the last lap so there is the race leading car it's going to be a silver cup win for the number 111 bmw there's another car that's grinding to a halt look is that another car out of fuel it's the porsche possibly but it's here frate's car it's ground to a halt coming out of towson so have one or two teams misjudged the amount of fuel required here 76 is the car stationary which means it will be san vitoria riola's porsche right team wrong car so riola is stranded as well so it's not just one and interestingly it's two different teams different cars toyota and porsche as well no such drama seemingly for number one one one as down now towards the very ante alta comes the bmw of the leading driver gabrielle piana there is the toyota it's stranded on the track so gail castelli door open it's all gone quiet and there is a similar situation out on the track salvatore riola is going no further huge disappointment for gail casterly and stefan lemare so they're up to the checkered flag it's going to be a win in the first round of the european gt4 series for gabrielle piana and for bashralthan the checkered flag is waived and bmw wins at imola there across the line is the winning car the bmw victorious by some margin now who else can survive 27 valentine's clown and tj going to be second there sorry sight of the stranded toyota and asclo seeing that possibly lifts on his way to the flag to make sure that he doesn't have any such dramas third and a pro-am win will go the way of the number 12 bmw there it is in the background of jagish gadick ahead of gerald kamathi is fourth and second in pro um uh and then third in pro am will be nikolai moller madsen and yorkville the ams that should go the way of number 71 bmw of stefano valley ahead of 89 shield vanilla who will bring home yes to martin and then maurizio frati in his porsche for third position there is the am class winner stefano ovalle on his way now up towards the end of the race [Music] so the flag is out and stefano valley will be the next one to come through to take a second flag and a class win and he's going to be in 10th place overall stephan o'barley comes through this car that he shares with paulo maloney regular gt4 racer is paulo and the flag falls a class win confirmed then for paolo maloney and stefano valley but he's a very very happy gabrielli piana race win for him and for about shelton and bmw if there's one brand that you would say has looked strong throughout the race that would be it because not only was that car so competitive but so too was the borishan automotive motorsport car that we saw leading the race early on confirmation then of the results a race win for bas charlton and gabriele piana from tiernue and valentine asklove with third going the way of chamber of commerce evan yeah come up four through jealous mafias the head of yorkville and nikolai muller madison ian kasmalik and bastian boos rounding out the top six and the calls that we lost well stefan lamarres gal cassidy had to park we also of course lost salvatore riola at the very end kate van berlow with puncture and suspension breakage for luke so let's have a look back at what happened across more than an hour really with the stoppage and we had the contact that put into the gravel ibrahim akai and not long after we had a red flag because of a signage drama which had to be repaired the race got back underway as it did so it gave a chance for bashrouten to have another go at the race leader but the gap opened up across the first stint as battles raged on lower down the order we had going off wide through the gravel the number 76 porsche of giuseppe getzi great battle on track between the mercedes and the hands of lucy benit and tio nue in the aston martin there's a bit of a rub between the two of them in the end however suspension breakage would put irony out of the race piano's car was taken over early sheldon brought it in piano got in and that enabled him to have the large share of the lapra to bring down the gap to the leader and as the number 12 bmw rejoined so gadick dropped behind katie then had a good battle with just about everybody but with a bit of a touch off the road went valentine big old tank slapper and then there was this brush between casterly and get it in the end through went the toyota and then the aston martin sailed by as well kate van berlow was the next person with dramas a puncture at the start of that meaning that he was going no further as gabriele piana came through to take the race win and to celebrate with bass trouter honours in race one in the gt4 european series to the rn vision sts bmw team and they're happy drivers in park fair make the top three cars per class required for the purposes of podiums and also for the scrutineering part fermi conditions as well so there you've got the three lines of traffic top three in silver pro am and am you've seen the overall and the silver cup winning car they're the number 12 blue bmw winning in pro am and you've got number 71 somewhere in the car park paolo maloney and stefano valley but one in um so the pirelli technicians take the data that's all required the drivers will go to the technical checks and uh series press officer marcel tancut walks out of frame championship manager nina piffner with her back to us handing out the required ppe for the drivers before the presentations so and drivers congratulate one another on their podium finishes you see in the background balance at asclo and tio neway both committee drivers in that race and it's a purely a site isn't it with the masks on and the lack of a podium but the trophies are there and the drivers now being brought forward for the trophies to be handed over [Music] you can bug getting a bit of fresh air is uh a turkish driver it's hot enough i mean just been in the car for half an hour let's put a mouse kill so now the drivers are set up and the background noise will change in a second or two because in a few seconds time the gt3 qualifying here will get underway it's going to be noisy in a few seconds time so they're the drivers ready for the podium some presentations so the drivers prepare themselves yes so they've got the our envision crew and there you see the markings as to where the drivers are required to stand so it's a different way of doing it but it gives the drivers their chance to receive trophies and stand in the appropriate place because i knew that i wanted to be in front of the other guys and then when i saw that i was in front i stopped taking care of there was just literally no single sources a good effort in the early part of that stint but eventually settling but it was a good idea to get in early and therefore give the car to gabrielle piana for a maximum amount of time so the drivers effectively collect a trophy and then go and stand in the requisite spot for photographs now tomorrow's race of course has a separate grid already settled on the second qualifying session barring any penalties that might come out of this race where the drivers go and collect their trophies in silver for second spot so take second place and then there you have it the silver winners making their way up to the up to the presentation area as i mentioned earlier on satina as the watch partner already having provided pole position timepieces to each class pole driver out of q1 and there you have the pro-am drivers now nicole i'm on madison and ian casper lick uh sorry you're a viva i should say uh taking their third place in pro-am nick michelangelo madison making his uh porsche debut but with the oh so distinctive overalls chocomathias and evan yakoma step forward and it will be of course a pro-am win for the bmw of jagish gedi and co-driver so race two for the gt4 european series coming up from imola tomorrow thanks to your company today for now from david addison it's goodbye you

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Published: Sat Jul 25 2020