Monza, the opening race of the Italian GT Sprint 2021 Championship to Greco-Crestani (Ferrari 488)

Easy Race pairing proceeded the Audi R8 of Mancinelli-Postiglione and the Lamborghini Huracan of Frassineti-Ghiotto. The victory in GT4 went to Di Giusto-Babini (Porsche Cayman), that of GT Cup to Pijl-Vairani (Lamborghini Huracan ST). Race-2 will be in the afternoon at 15.30 with live coverage on ACISPORT TV.
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The pairing made by Matteo Greco and Fabrizio Crestani, in the Ferrari 488 Evo, won race-1 of the opening round of the 19th Italian GT Championship sprint Series. The Easy Race drivers won based on the sum of the times of the two races, that is the race that was suspended yesterday on lap five due to the weather conditions and the 36 minutes + 1 lap run today and proceeded Mancinelli-Postiglione (Audi R8 LMS-Audi Sport Italia) and Frassineti-Ghiotto (Lamborghini Huracan-Imperiale Racing). In GT4 the victory went to Di Giusto-Babini (Porsche Cayman-Ebimotors), while the top step of the GT Cup podium went to Pijl-Vairani (Lamborghini Huraca ST-Bonaldi Motorsport)

This afternoon at 15,30 race-2 will enjoy live coverage on ACISPORT TV (SKY 228). The recorded broadcast of the race will also be on RAISPORT (FreeView 57-58) at 21.15. The media programming will also include the live streams from www.acisport.it/CIGT, and from the Facebook and YouTube pages.

RACE1 CLASSIFICATION

GT3: The victory of Greco-Crestani arrived also due to the sum of the times of the two races. The Easy Race drivers deserved the win and took the lead of the classification. After the difficult first part of the race yesterday under heavy rain, the race today was run on a humid track that required rain tyres by most of the teams. The winners did not make this choice and fit slick tyres at the start. They crossed the finish line 21s ahead Mancinelli-Postiglione. The Audi drivers recovered from P7 ending ahead of Frassineti-Ghiotto, which started on rain tyres. At the feet of the podium the second Audi, Agostini-Ferrari, also started on rain tyres, before changing them at the pitstop which allowed them to put in a good comeback race. The fifth place, and the first of PRO-AM, went to Lippi-Filippi (Ferrari 488-Ram Autoracing), thanks to a great start of the former GP2 Series driver that kept the lead in the initial part of the race and then crossed the finish line ahead of Perolini-Cecotto (Lamborghini Huracan-Imperiale Racing), that were second in GT3 PRO-AM, Schreiner-Hudspeth (Ferrari 488-AF Corse), Llarena-Cazzaniga (Lamborghini Huracan-Imperiale Racing), Comandini-Zug (BMW M6 GT3-Ceccato Racing Team), while in GT3 AM the victory went to Cuhdaroglu-Schirò (Ferrari 488-Kessel Racing), that led Erwin Zanotti (Honda NSX GT3-Nova Race) and Mann P.-Casè (Ferrari 488-AF Corse). Guidetti-De Luca (Honda NXS GT3-Nova Race) were hit by bad luck as they started from the pole position but then were penalized for the contact with the Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Baruch-Segù that forced Antonelli Motorsport’s pairing to retire.

GT4: The first duel of the season in GT4 among Porsche, Mercedes and BMW was won by Porsche in PRO-AM and AM. The highest was dominated by the Cayman of Ebimotors that won the race with Di Giusto-Babini, that led De Castro-Arrigosi, while the third position went to the Mercedes AMG GT4 of Ferri-Gagliardini (Nova Race). In AM, the top step of the podium went to Cerati-Ghezzi, in the Cayman of Autorlando. They were followed by the Mercedes AMG Gt4 of Magnoni-Di Fabio (Nova Race) and the BMW M4 GT4 of Fascicolo-Neri (Ceccato Racing Team).

GT CUP: Duels, overtaking and a lot of battles in the class reserved to the single-make configured cars that was eventually won by Daan Pijl and Fabio Vairani in the Lamborghini Huracan ST. The Bonaldi Motorsport pairing proceeded the very young Alessandro Girardelli (Porsche GT3 Cup-Dinamic Motorsprt) and the Ferrari 488 Challenge of Demarchi-Risitano (SR&R).