Dinamic Take Debut Win In Chaotic Saturday Race AT Monza
Dinamic Motorsport have taken victory on their International GT Open debut with a win in Race 1 at Monza, with local hero (in the strictest sense: Monza-born!) Riccardo Cazzaniga and Austrian GT star Klaus Bachler taking a superb win in a crazy race. ]
The rain was the uninvited star and provoked directly or indirectly several incidents and four safety-car periods, with the race being eventually red-flagged four minutes from the end.
Florian Scholze-Alain Valente (Mercedes – Team GT) were second overall and won the Pro-Am class ahead, preceding the two Kessel Racing Ferrari of Ziemian-Jefferies and Cuhadaroglu-Fumanelli. In Am, there was the sixth success of the season for Alexander Hrachowina-Martin Konrad (Mercedes- Mann Filter Team Landgraf) ahead of Stephen Earle-Erwin Zanotti (Ferrari – Kessel Racing) and Pascal Bachmann (Aston Martin – Street Art Racing).
At the start, poleman Yannick Mettler (Mercedes – SPS) kept the advantage of the pole, closely followed by Pulcini, while Jefferies was third at the Prima Variante and Cazzaniga fourth, after having gone straight through the chicane.
Immediately behind, Gilardoni was touched by Kranz and sent into a spin. Further back in the field, there was contact between Cipriani and Osieka and both cars are stuck in the gravel, forcing the safety car out.
At the restart, after 4 laps, Mettler still leads ahead of Pulcini, as Cazzaniga passed Jefferies for third, then Roe, Kranz and Basz in full fight, Baud, Ellis and Konrad, first in Am. After 10 laps, the first four were covered by only 4 seconds, while the four cars fighting for P5 were also within 4 seconds. Gilardoni, after the initial drama, is in P15.
In lap 11, Liangbo was off the track at Ascari, with the safety car being deployed again for 3 laps to allow the Honda to be rescued. In the meantime, Gilardoni stopped to change tyres.
The pit stop window opened as soon the race restarted, on lap 15, but the safety car was back on lap 21: Di Folco had spun at the Parabolica, remaining stranded in the gravel and almost at the same moment, Osborne stopped at the first chicane, with an alternator failure.
The restart came on lap 23, with Bachler and Valente taking the first two positions ahead of Ziemian, Fumanelli, Müller, Jens and the Oregon Team duo of Van Berlo and Hites, who fought at the first chicane. But it was right behind them where the action got most intense, as Marcin Jedlinski careered into Janine Shoffner and collected Van Berlo.
Once again the safety car was scrambled and the race was red-flagged one lap later, 4 minutes from the end. Shoffner and Jedlinski were brought to the medical center for checks, although both drivers walked away unassisted.
With the two Lamborghini of Oregon Team finishing 7th and 8th, there was not much change on top of the standings, where now Ven Berlo-Gilardoni lead by 2 points on Hites-Pulcini.
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