CRAFT-Bamboo Racing made good
use of strategy in a critical moment and won the Race 2 of the
Blancpain GT Series Asia event at
Shanghai, with the considerably wet track being on favor of Darryl
O'Young and Marvin Dienst.
The track was way wetter than on
Saturday, and to secure that everything is safe the Safety Car kept
its way on track for six minutes until the green flag was out, when
Alessio Picariello in the No. 7 Absolute Audi
was leading an all-Audi top-3 while Marvin Dienst in the No. 99
CRAFT-Bamboo Porsche was
trying to break this with lots of pressure into the No. 13 Milestone
Audi.
Things were settled until the 20-minute
mark when the No. 13 became second and Congfu Cheng clocked
some best laps in sequence, although it wasn't enough to catch
Picariello. Right after the pit window opened the No. 75 T2 Ferrari
made contact with the No. 30 Absolute Bentley, which proved to be
terminal to the Italian car and brought a Full Course Yellow for
around five minutes.
J-Fly by Absolute let Picariello have
as much track time as possible before delivering the No. 7 to Jeffrey
Lee, but truth is that the Full Course Yellow ruined their plans to
be in front as the No. 99 CRAFT-Bamboo Porsche took the lead while
the former first place holder went down to seventh place. Pretty much
everything benefited the No. 99, with a gap of 9 seconds to the No. 6
R8 LMS Cup Audi and also a faster pace than the opponents.
In the final minutes the weather
worsened considerably and this helped the No. 99 into securing the
lead gap and open it even more, so Darryl O'Young just had to bring
it home to celebrate the overall win, as well in the Silver
Cup. The No. 6 R8 LMS Cup Audi crossed in second and won the
Pro-Am Cup and a late effort of the No. 86 OD Racing
Audi brought the third spot for them.
The No. 2 FFF Lamborghini got Am
Cup honors with Junhan Zhu and Yue Lin
at the wheel while in GT4 Taiwan Top Speed
with the No. 17 Porsche of Keo Chang and Jeff
Lu did a good job in the bad weather while the rest of the
field couldn't match the pace and
made small mistakes during the race.
The next weekend will be also the last
of the inaugural season as the competitors will face the new Zhejiang
Circuit in China for the first time on October 21st
and 22nd.
PHOTO: CRAFT-Bamboo Racing
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