After a two-month summer break, the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia is back on the track at Monza for the fourth round of the season, inaugurating the decisive second half of the championship with a record 37 drivers of 10 different nationalities lined up on the starting grid. The date at the Temple of Speed was dominated by Larry Ten Voorde, with the Dutch driver winning the two scheduled races and bounding to the top of the standings at the wheel of the EF Racing team’s 911 GT3 Cup.

Ten Voorde also had the fastest lap, but success in race 1 was assisted by contact between Keagan Masters (Ombra Racing), who picked up the 1’49”481 pole position, and Simone Iaquinta (Ghinzani Arco Motorsport), forcing both to withdraw while they were competing for the win. This meant that Gianmarco Quaresmini (Dinamic Motorsport) – the defending champion is also second in the overall standings, just two points behind Ten Voorde – climbed the podium as well as Diego Bertonelli, third at the wheel of Bonaldi Motorsport’s 911 GT3 Cup. Penalised for the contact with Masters, for race 2 Iaquinta was demoted from first to ninth position on the starting grid, while the South African driver “inherited” a start from pole position, followed at the front by Ten Voorde.

At the start, it was again Ten Voorde who eliminated Masters, flying off to his second victory of the weekend – fourth of the Carrera Cup Italia season – by dint of fast laps, while his South African rival regained second place mid race with determined overtaking on Lesmo curve 2 against Quaresmini, another driver who was faster when the lights went out. The driver from the Brescia area went on to commit an error in the First Variant and was overtaken by teammate Giorgio Amati, third on the podium behind Ten Voorde and Masters, as well as by Benedetto Strignano, who as in race 1 thus earned fourth place with Villorba Corse’s 911 GT3 Cup. In view of the fifth and penultimate round of the season, in the team standings, Dinamic Motorsport maintained its lead ahead of the aforementioned Villorba Corse and the EF Racing team; in the drivers’ standings, the gaps are still very narrow in the top 10: the date is in the context of the eagerly awaited Porsche Festival, which Porsche Italia organises at the Misano World Circuit on the weekend of 7-8 October.

At Monza, in the Michelin Cup, leader Alberto De Amicis further improved his position in the standings thanks to the second place in race 1 and win in race 2. The Ebimotors driver is followed by Alex De Giacomi, who with Tsunami RT picked up his first win of the season in race 1 in his turn, while in race 2 he ended third, also behind Francesco Maria Fenici (AB Racing), whose “silver medal” took him back onto the category podium after being blamelessly involved in an unfortunate accident at Mugello. Massimiliano Montagnes celebrated his first career podium in the Michelin Cup, on the other hand, ending in third place in Team Malucelli’s 911 GT3 Cup in race 1.