GT Open - Monza - Race 2

Narac-Pilet win Race 2 in Monza ahead of Toccacelo-Giammaria

The International GT Open will go to a grand finale in Barcelona with the fight for the title getting closer still after Sunday's race 2 in Monza, which saw a clear victory of the IMSA Porsche of Raymond Narac-Patrick Pilet ahead of yesterday’s winners, Giammaria-Toccacelo (Edil Cris Ferrari).

CRS's Tim Mullen and Adam Christodolou were third, while championship leaders Barba-Kaffer (AF Corse) took no points.

All this has brought an exciting situation in the standings, which now see Barba-Kaffer leading by 12 points from Pilet-Narac, 15 from Giammaria-Toccacelo and 27 from Lietz-Roda.

In GTS, Marco Frezza-Niki Cadei and Stefano Livio-Lorenzo Bontempelli gave the Kessel Ferraris a double win - fifth place for Jean-Philippe Dayraut means that the gap in the GTS standings is down to just 12 points on Livio-Bontempelli and 14 to Frezza.

At the start, Kaffer was fastest with a great fight between Griffin, Ortelli, Pilet, Toccacelo and Broniszewski (who spun on lap 2) for second. Goodwin and Lavio made contact at the Parabolica and went off-track while Beaubelique was in the sand at Lesmo.

Pilet kept the pressure on Kaffer while Toccacelo was third ahead of Christodoulou, Ortelli and Bontempelli.

Pilet took the lead on lap 7, while Toccacelo was by then a lonely third ahead of six battling red Ferraris: Christodolou, Bontempelli, Garofano, Griffin, Ortelli and Cadei, followed by the Aston of Wiser.

The situation remained relatively stable until the pit stops, which saw Narac emerging as leader with a 10-second advantage over Mullen, with Giammaria, then Frezza (first of the GTS cars), Lietz, Barba, Guerrero (but the Aston GT2 would be penalised with 20” for not serving the entire pitstop handicap), Lancieri, Gruber and Livio, while the AF Corse 430 of Garofano-Rangoni stopped with a broken clutch.

Giammaria would take 2nd from Mullen and started to reduce the gap on Narac, while Barba, who had climbed to fourth, lost good points, going off at the entrance of the Parabolica, after a mistake at the braking point on lap 22.

The race ends with Pilet, Toccacelo and Mullen in the top three ahead of Lietz, while the Kessels of Frezza and Livio make a one-two in GTS, with the Villois Aston of Lancieri-Busnelli third.

Race 2 Result

1 16 Patrick Pilet/Raymond Narac IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Super GT 27 laps 51:31.523
2 9 Enrico Toccacelo/Raffaele Giammaria Edil Cris Racing Team Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT +3.980
3 91 Tim Mullen/Adam Christodolou CRS Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT +15.291
4 2 Richard Lietz/Gianluca Roda Autorlando Sport Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Super GT +30.534
5 66 Niki Cadei/Marco Frezza Kessel Racing Ferrari 430 GT3 Scuderia GTS 7 +38.074
6 51 Lorenzo Bontempelli/Stefano Livio Kessel Racing Ferrari 430 GT3 Scuderia GTS +49.968
7 12 Max Wiser/Lucas Guerrero Villois Racing Aston Martin Vantage Super GT +50.287
8 7 Alexander Talkanitsa J/Alexander Talkanitsa AT Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT +56.562
9 52 Massimiliano Busnelli/Gabriele Lancieri Villois Racing Aston Martin DBRS 9 GTS +58.324
10 72 Stephane Ortelli/Jean Philippe Dayraut Jean Philippe Dayraut Ferrari 430 GT3 Scuderia GTS +58.789
11 36 Sintu Vives/Manel Cerqueda Automóbil Club d'Andorra Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT +1:07.261
12 62 Alex Mortimer/Peter Bamford Team RPM Ford GT GTS +1:32.370
13 65 Dimitris Deverikos/Thomas Gruber Autorlando Sport Porsche 911 GT3 GTS +1:38.037
14 6 Matt Griffin/Jack Gerber AF CORSE Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT +1:53.438
15 53 Gianandrea Crespi/Matteo Giordano Villois Racing Aston Martin DBRS 9 GTS 26 laps
16 8 Pierre Kaffer/Alvaro Barba AF CORSE Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT 26 laps
17 67 Freddy Kremer/Brian Lavio Kessel Racing Ferrari 430 GT3 Scuderia GTS 25 laps
18 14 Jordi Gene/Ferrán Monje Sun Red SRX Super GT 23 laps
19 34 Christian Moullin Traf/Jean L. Beaubelique PRO-GT by Alméras Porsche 911 GT3R GTS 21 laps

Not classified:

20 5 Alessandro Garofano/Luca Rangoni AF CORSE Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT 13 laps
21 11 Michael Broniszewski/Philipp Peter Kessel Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT 8 laps
22 90 Chris Goodwin/Klass Hummel CRS Racing Ferrari 430 GT2 Super GT

Points Standings After Monza

Overall / General
1. Barba – Kaffer, 188 p
2. Narac-Pilet 176
3. Giammaria – Toccacelo 173
4. Roda - Lietz 161
5. Mullen 108

GTS
1. Dayraut 76 p
2. Livio - Bontempelli 68
3. Frezza-Couceiro 66
4. Ortelli 58
5. Couceiro 56

Teams Super GT
1. AF Corse 89 p
2. IMSA Performance 78
3. Edil Cris Racing Team 75
4. Autorlando Sport 68
5. CRS Racing, Kessel Racing 38

Team GTS
1. Kessel Racing 156 p
2. Luxury Racing/Dayraut 79
3. Autorlando Sport 46
4. RPM 43
5. Villois Racing 32