Desideri-Negra (Super GT Cup) and Caso-Del Prete (GT Cup) win Imola's race-1

The 16 years old former karting driver Riccardo Pera claimed the win in the Cayman Trophy.

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Desideri-Negra (Lamborghini Huracan) and Caso-Del Prete (Ferrari 458 Italia) took the wins of race-1 for classes Super GT Cup and GT Cup, while the top step of the podium of the Porsche Cayman Trophy went Riccardo Pera's ways (Ebimotors)

SUPER GT CUP: Desideri-Negra claimed a good win in the class reserved to the Lamborghini Huracans. This success has even better as Antonelli Motorsport's lineup has been leading the race for a long time and in the final, right at the last corner, Negra managed to fend off Zaugg's attack (Raton Racing) who ended second with his co-equiper D'Amico.
The lineup fielded by Raton Racing has always held top positions, in the first stint a great D'Amico was at the wheel, and in the second Zaugg that had to serve the 10s time handicap at the drivers change and just missed out on completing his great comeback. The third step of the podium went to Baruch-Liang (Vincenzo Sospiri Racing), who have been good to install themselves in P3 early on after the exit of the safety car, took the lead at lap 15 but Liang rejoined after the drivers change in second position due to the time handicap and finally had to concede his position to an unleashed Zaugg, managing anyway to complete a great race. Behind them, Mantovani-Alessandri (Antonelli Motorsport) closed ahead of De Lorenzi-Necchi (GDL Racing) and Davide Roda, who made his debut on the Huracan of Petri Corse Motorsport. Croce-Costa did not make it to the start due to the incident in qualifying with Casè, similar fate also for Galbiati-Sartori (engine problem) and Tanca-Comi (car damaged by fire in practice).

GT CUP: Ferraris have been unbeatable in the single branded cars with the 458 Italia driven by Caso-Del Prete leading the pack since the beginning. Scuderia Victoria's pairing proceeded the 458 Italia of Sauto-Zanardini (Duel Race) that tried to take P1 in the closing stages. The third place of the podium went to Lino and Carlo Curti (Porsche 997-Ebimotors), that closed their effort ahead of De Marchi-Benvenuti (Lamborghini Gallardo-Imperiale Racing), that had to serve a 30s time penalty due to the double win in Monza and Deodati-Romani (Ferrari 458 Italia-Duel Race). Maino-Benucci (Porsche 997-Ebimotors) were stopped by the failure of the axle shaft, while Leo-"Poppy" (Team Vago) also had to retire due to some problems to the injection of their car.

CAYMAN TROPHY: The 16 years old Riccardo Pera secured the first win of the newly born championship by Porsche Italia. The former karting driver of Ebimotors set the quickest time in qualifying and led the race from lights to flag, as Bianco-De Castro (Krypton Motorsport) followed proceeding Piccioli-Iannotta and Federico and Matteo Zangari (CVG Motorsport). The two cars run by Team Kinetic and driven by Nicola Neri and Spiridinov-Paparelli went off due to an early incident, while Mercatali and Cecotto had a contact with Bianco-De Castro early on.

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