Following the great debut in Vallelunga, the Italian GT Championship will make it to the track this weekend in Monza for the second round of the season, marking another record in terms of entered drivers. A total of 35 drivers were on track in the opener, but 5 more lineups joined increasing the number of cars on track in the two races of GT3 and GT Cup to 40.

The Ferraris 458 Italia will be the cars to be beaten in the highest class, starting from that run by Scuderia Baldini 27 that is leading the standings with Casè-Gattuso, but a lot of other cars from Maranello are in the top half of the classification. Among these, the car driven by Schirò and Berton (Villorba Corse), Frassineti-Beretta ofOmbra Racing, the team that will field another car for Cipriani-Tedeschi, Di Amato-Mugelli (MP1 Corse), Magli-Ferrara (Easy Race), and those of Team Malucelli driven by Bontempelli-Gai and Galassi-Rizzuto.

Among the new entries in the second round of the sesaon, the comeback of Michela Cerruti on the second BMW Z4 run by ROAL Motorsport that will race alongside the one driven by Comandini-Gagliardini, the young German Daniel Keilwitz will share the wheel with Francesco Sini on the Corvette Z06R run by Solaris Motorsport, and the Porsche GT3R of Krypton Motorsport that will field Pezzucchi-Romani.

The lot of cars from Stuttgart will be completed by the 997 of Donativi-Postiglione and by the two cars run by Autorlando and driven by Camathias-Calamia and by another lineup still to be decided, while Audi Sport Italia will get to the start with two R8 LMS ultra driven by Capello-Zonzini and Mapelli-Amici. The two Lamborghini Gallardos of  Bortolotti-Viberti and Babini-Ceccato (Imperiale Racing) will also be present in GT3 as the two McLaren MP4-12C of Francioni-Biagi and Mancinelli-Geri (Racing Studios), and the Mercedes SLS AMG of Mora-Wright run by the Portuguese team Sports & You.

Some new arrivals also in GT Cup, as Ivan Capelli and Marco Coldani will make their debut of the season on the Ferrari 458 Italia of Team Pellin, and the lineup "David Gadri"-Caccia. Alongside the other drivers on Ferrari, Del Prete-Caso (Scuderia Victoria) and Renato Di Amato (Sport Made in Italy), will try to slide in the fight between Porsche and Lamborghini that characterized the first two races held in Vallelunga.

The provisional classification is in fact led, equal on points, by Luca and Nicola Pastorelli (Porsche 997-Krypton Motorsport) and Zanardini-Perel (Lamborghini Gallardo-Bonaldi Motorsport), that shared the victory in the first round of the season. The Porsches 997 of Maino-Selva, "Spezz", Venerosi-Baccani (Ebimotors), Passuti-Goldstein (Antonelli Motorsport), Matteo and Federico Zangari (Ghinzani-Arco Motorsport) and that of Bodega-De Castro (Drive Technology Italia) will be present in Monza too.

Alongside the Lamborghini Gallardo of Zanardini-Perel, Durante-Comi and Bianco-Monfardini (Imperiale Racing) will take on track as many sister cars, as will do Valori-Cecchi (Eurotech), while the three Huracan competing in the Lamborghini Cup will be driven by Massimo Mantovani, Omar Galbiati (Antonelli Motorsport) and Tanca-Zaugg (Raton Racing).

The weekend of Monza schedules two qualifying sessions on Saturday (from local 10,15 to 11,15) as race-1 will follow at 18,55 and race two will be on Sunday at 15,30. Both races will be run on 48 minutes + 1lap and will go live on the channel AutomotoTV (SKY 148) while the recorded race will be shown by Raisport2. Live streaming will be available at www.acisportitalia.it/GT.

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