The circuit of Vallelunga is about to host the third round of the Italian GT Championship Endurance this coming weekend. A total of 56 drivers in 20 different cars will be present in the categories GT3, GT Light and GT4. Free admittance ticket can be DOWNLOADED HERE.
GT3
After the races held in Monza and Misano, the classification is still quite compact with the winners of Misano Postiglione-Mul-Frassineti (Lamborghini Huracan-Imperiale Racing) leading the winners of Monza Comandini-Johansson (BMW M6 GT3) by five points. In Vallelunga, BMW Team Italia-Ceccato Motors Racing Team’s drivers will be joined again, as in Misano, by the British driver Alexander Sims.
The highest class on track will feature some new arrivals and some comebacks. Among the latter, the former protagonist of several editions of the Italian series, Alessandro Balzan, will get on track in the Ferrari 488 of Easy Race alongside Marco Cioci and Lorenzo Veglia, that are currently third in the standings, while the 18 years old Belgian Charles Weerts, already present in Misano, will share driving duties with his fellow-countryman Mike Den Tandt in the Audi R8 LMS run by Audi Sport Italia. The new entry to join the series is the Ferrari 488 fielded by the German team Rinaldi Racing for the Russians Rinat Salikhov and Denis Bulkatov and the South African David Perel, who was already present in the 2015 edition of the Italian Championship.
The Ferrari 488 lot will be completed by Fisichella-Gai-Villeneuve (Scuderia Baldini), Di Amato-Vezzoni (RS Racing) and Mann-Cressoni-Nielsen (AF Corse), while the Lamborghini flag will be raised high not only by classification leaders Postiglione-Mul-Frassineti but also by Perolini-Gersekowski-Zonzini (Imperiale Racing) and Cazzaniga-Cazzaniga-Pirri (LP Racing).
The entry list of the highest class is completed by the two Mercedes AMG GT3 of Antonelli Motorsport driven by Colombo-Linossi-Palma and Moiseev-Rovera-Agostini, that are ready to make up some ground in the classification after the good results pulled in the Sprint series.
GT LIGHT
A new entry is also awaited in GT Light: the Ferrari 458 Italia run by PMA Motorsport for Maurizio Ceresoli and the Japanese Satoshi Tanaka. They will have to face the challenge of the two Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo of classification leaders Gian Piero Cristoni and Mattia Michelotto (Antonelli Motorsport), that will share driving duties with Emil Skaras in Vallelunga, and Paolino-Demarchi (Iron Lynx) that will be sided by the British driver JM Littman, at his debut in the Italian series.
GT LIGHT ENDURANCE CLASSIFICATION
GT 4
The fight in GT4 is even more open with five drivers equal on points at the top of the provisional classification. Next to the BMW M4 of Fascicolo-Guerra-Fontana (BMW Team Italia), the Porsche Cayman of Autorlando driven by Ghezzi-Chiesa has joined the top of the classification in Misano and the drivers will count on a known name, Fabio Babini, this time around. Seven points short of the lead, five more drivers will hunt for a strong performance in Vallelunga. Gnemmi-Nera-Peri (Porsche Cayman-Ebimotors) will try to repeat the win scored in Misano, as Luca Magnoni and the Norwegian Aleksander Schjerpen (Ginetta G55-Nova Race) that at the opener in Monza. The Maserati Gran Turismo run by V-Action for Pajuranta-Becagli-Bernazzani will also be present.
PROGRAM
The third weekend of the season of the Endurance series will kick off on Friday, September 13th with free practice from local 10,15 to 11,15 and will be followed by the second session from 14,30 to 15,30. The third free practice session will be on Saturday from 9,05 to 10,05, while the three qualifying sessions will define the pecking order of the 3-hours long race from 15,20 to 16,25. The race will get underway on Sunday from 14,30. AutomotoTV (SKY 228) will cover the race live, while the web streaming feeds will be accessible from www.raiplay.it www.acisport.ity/CIGT and from the Facebook page of the Championship www.facebook.com/CIGranTurismo. A wide 90 minutes special on the race will be aired by Raisport on Tuesday, September 17th, from 21.40.
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