Porsche take 1st and 2nd in third round of Asian Le Mans Series
With 35 kg more than in race 1 added to all the Porsche teams for round three of the Asian Le mans Series , we can not say that the German GTs were ahead of the competition in Abu Dhabi. during the race. GPX Racing owes its victory to perfect strategy and a smooth race led by the drivers. Julien Andlauer, Axcil Jefferies and Alain Ferté owe their victory to their work and that of the team. That's 25 more points for the title.
We even had a Porsche double with the second place in the 911 GT3 R / Precote Herberth Motorsport of Ralf Bohn, Alfred and Robert Renauer, who also put in a solid race.
Starting from pole, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 / HubAuto Racing lost foot with the head after the first hour of the race, but Marcos Gomes and Raffaele Marciello perfectly took over from Liam Talbot to finish on the last step of the podium, but the trio were fined 30 seconds for abusing the limits of the track.
We were expecting the Ferrari 488 GT3s in Abu Dhabi, but Race 1 could not do better than 3rd place for Nicklas Nielsen, Johnny Laursen and Alessio Rovera on behalf of Formula Racing. The trio finished ahead of another Ferrari, that of Rinaldi Racing shared by Davide Rigon, David Perel and Rino Mastronardi.
The Aston Martin Vantage GT3 livened up the start of the race with the two cars from Garage 59 which proved to their advantage. Maxime Martin and Marvin Kirchhöfer led the first hour before downshifting. Martin / Hassse-Clot / West must be content with 6th place ahead of Aston Martin / D'station Racing.
A contact between the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 / Oman Racing Team and the Ferrari 488 GT3 / Kessel Racing # 27 resulted in the release of a full course yellow.
All to Play for in final race
GPX Racing (Andlauer / Ferté / Jefferies) continues to advance with 62 points. Precote Herberth Motorsport # 99 (Renauer / Renauer / Bohn) is still in the game with 54 points. Rinaldi Racing # 55 (Rigon / Perel / Mastronardi) has 34 points, Garage 59 # 88 (West / Martin / Hasse-Clot) 33 points, Inception Racing (Barnicoat / Iribe / Millroy) 27 points, HubAuto Racing (Marciello / Gomes / Talbot) 24 points, Formula Racing (Laursen / Nielsen / Rovera) 23.5 points, Walkenhorst Motorsport (Catsburg / Hull / Miller) 15.5 points and Oman Racing Team (Al Harthy / Canning / Adam) 12 points.