Strategy is also
part of any type of racing, and WRT
used this trump card to win the Main Race of the Blancpain
GT Sprint Cup at Brands Hatch. A very
well done pit stop gave the lead that the No. 33 Audi R8 LMS never
gave up with Christopher Mies
and Enzo Ide.
Lights were out for
the Main Race and although there were some cars in the grass before
and after the starting line, everything went fine. Bernd
Schneider kept the lead with the No. 86
HTP Mercedes
while Enzo Ide jumped in front of Marlon Stockinger to be in second,
while Clemens Schmid in the No. 85 HTP Mercedes became easy prey for
the other contenders, being passed by Frederic Vervisch, in the No.
WRT Audi
and Maxime Soulet in the No. 8 M-SPORT Bentley.
Tight track, lots of
cars, which meant some slight bits of contact, like the one that
almost knocked out Vervisch, but sent him way back in the field. Back
to the podium fight, Soulet then started to press Stockinger in the
No. 74 ISR Audi, close enough to make a move.
Being patient
sometimes rewards the person, and Soulet stayed 10 minutes behind
Stockinger to be finally able to make the move to overtake.
Stockinger could do nothing to save himself, and lost the last podium
place. A bit later in the other hand, Davide Valsecchi paid for his
impatience and went to the gravel in the No. 77 Attempro Lamborghini.
Instead of defending
himself of Soulet, Enzo Ide opted to pit early to put Christopher
Mies in the No. 33 WRT Audi. It was the time when the No. 86 HTP
Mercedes started to deal with the backmarkers, but it was in the pit
stops, when Jules Szymkowiak and Andy Soucek got their respective
cars, that the Mercedes vs. Bentley battle went the closest. But
surprise, Christopher Mies got an excellent pit job in his No. 33 WRT
Audi and became the leader.
Still in the WRT
matters, the No. 2 and No. 3 had a contact and both went off the
track, without a possibility to return. In a good evasive move, Mies
avoided one of the crashed car, missing it by a very little margin.
The full course
yellow period lasted 15 minutes to properly take the cars and do
barrier repairs, and the question was about how will Szymkowiak into
Mies, or if we will have a possible surprise. Then we got green and
Mies kept his place ahead of Symkowiak while Soucek had a hard time
getting rid of a backmarker Ferrari. But then, he was so distant of
the front pack that impossible to do something.
Szymkowiak kept the
pressure into Mies in the last minutes, but he wasn’t quick enough
to reduce the gap, and the No. 33 WRT Audi saw the checkered flag
first. Luca Stolz and Michelle Beretta gave Silver Cup honors to the
No. 19 GRT Lamborghini, while the No. 11 Kessel Racing Ferrari won
the Pro-Am class with Giacomo Piccini and Michal Broniszewski.
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