There was major drama in GT1 despite just the two Corvette Racing Corvette C6.Rs taking part. Johnny O'Connell and Jan Magnussen won for the fifth time this season - and fourth race in a row - but a race down pit-lane was the story of their day. Both team cars pitted at the two-hour mark and left their pit boxes at the same time, with O'Connell and Olivier Beretta racing to the pit exit, banging fenders and running a red flag in the process.
Beretta came out first, but both cars were penalised a total of seven minutes and 40 seconds for the incident. Once they were back out and racing, O'Connell made the winning pass with 25 minutes remaining.
"A lot of people might think that we are not a competitive group," O'Connell said, "That was a situation that came out of the long yellow. It was two guys arguing for the same area of road. I thought it should have been mine and he thought it was his. It wasn't hitting that hard - it was just like two buddies punching each on the arm."
The victory gave O'Connell and Magnussen a 16-point lead in the championship over Beretta and Oliver Gavin.
"We are here to win," Magnussen insisted, "We have to do our very best to beat them and make no mistakes. Sometimes it gets to this level. We are not parading around the track."
Tafel Racing's Dirk Muller and Dominik Farnbacher won for the third time this season in GT2 by taking a dominating victory with their
Ferrari F430 GT, Muller taking the chequered flag over a minute ahead of Flying Lizard Motorsports' Johannes van Overbeek.
Farnbacher started fourth and pitted from second place, but the team beat the Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche out of pit-lane and gained nearly a full lap on the rest of the GT2 field during the race's first safety car period.
