Red Bull Ring: Balzan-Barri award Porsche with the first victory in class GT3

Simply amazing the color bearers of Ebimotors led the race since the initial stages ending ahead of Audi and Ferrari.

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04/08/2012 – The first absolute and of class GT3 victory of Alessandro Balzan and Gicaomo Barri in the Italian GT Championship arrived at the Red bull Ring, on Austrian soil.

The color bearers of Ebimotors, at the wheel of the Porsche GT3R, run an amazing race, getting the lead since the start and finishing 7"17 clear of the Audi R8 LMS ultra driven by Di Benedetto-Frassineti (Audi Sport Italia), and relegating the Ferrari 458 Italia of Mancini-Lancieri (Easy Race) to 18"07.

Only fourth place for the GT3 class leaders, Biagi-Colombo (BMW Z4-ROAL Motorsport), that see their advantage in the classification to Di Benedetto-Frassineti, to go down to just four points.

In GT2 Rocca-Romanini (Ferrari 458 Italia-Black Team) won the race, while the victory in GT Cup went to the Ukraines Kruglyk-Tsiplakov (Ferrari 458 Italia) in 1st division and Gaiotto-Giondi (Porsche 997) in 2nd division.

In Ginetta Cup, the victory went to Cressoni-Coppi, who finished ahead of Merendino-Pillitteri and Frazza-Garbelli, all on Ginetta G50.

Race two will start tomorrow at 11.50 (GMT+2) and will be run on 48' and a lap: live coverage on Sportitalia and web streaming at vvvw.acisportitalia.it.

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