Sunday, 27th April 2008

Lamy, Sarrazin win after late contact halts Audi challenge.

However, the old guard also served notice of its intentions as Mike Newton and Tommy Erdos finished fourth in class for RML in the venerable MG Lola having battled back from an engine failure in Friday practice. The Saulnier Racing Pescarolo took fifth in class, with the Kruse-Schiller Lola Mazda rounding out the top six.

In GT1, the decision to draft in factory Corvette driver Olivier Beretta looked like paying dividends for the Luc Alphand team as the Corvette he shared with Christophe Moreau and Patrice Goueslard looked like coming out on top in a two-way battle for victory against the Team Modena Aston Martin – which had set the pace during the opening part of the weekend.

However, Tomas Enge and Antonia Garcia eventually prevailed in the battle to secure a first win of the year with the Corvette taking second – where it was joined by the second C6.R entered by the French squad. However, the second Corvette and the IPB Spartak Lamborghini were both a number of laps behind at the finish.

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In GT2, there was the unfamiliar site of no Virgo Motorsport Ferrari on the podium for the first time in more than a year after defending champion Rob Bell and team-mate Gianmaria Bruni were forced to retire after suffering a number of punctures that eventually took its toll on the car.

With the Ferrari out of the equation, it was left to the IMSA Performance MATMUT team to secure class honours for Porsche as Richard Lietz and Raymond Narac took their first win of the year leading a Porsche 1-2 as Lars Erik Nielsen, Allan Simonsen and Richard Westbrook took second for the Farnbacher Racing team.

Pierre Ehret and Pierre Kaffer completed the class podium in Farnbacher's Ferrari 430 with Stephane Daoudi and Ben Aucott fourth for JMB and Andrea Chiesa and Ben Leuenberger fifth in the Speedy Racing Spyker. The top six was completed by the second JMB Ferrari in the hands of Peter Kutemann and Maurice Basso.

In all, 29 of the 44 starters were classified as finishers, with Campbell-Walter's Creation being the only non-starter.

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