Race 1
The track was thoroughly wet in Saturday’s first 30-minute race, but at least the teams knew what they were getting into before it began. It was a case of rain tyres up and down the grid, which formed up in front of a busy main grandstand containing around 2000 spectators.
Louis Stern started from pole position in his BMW M4, but the FK Performance man could not hold off the powerful Lamborghini Super Trofeo Evo II machine of Andrzej Lewandowski for long. Just one lap, in fact, as the Polish driver whizzed past him as the pack thundered down past the pits for the second time. And moments later, Stern also succumbed to the GT3 Ferrari 488 of Krystian Korzeniowski.
Despite a safety car around the halfway mark, and the weather acting as a leveller between the GT3 cars and the various examples of ‘Cup’ machinery, the field ended up spreading itself out. Particularly after Stern fell foul of the treacherous braking zone for Turn 1, and slammed into Korzeniowski as the latter turned into the right-hander.
Source: Autosport