The penultimate round of the Italian GT Championship in Misano

As the two classifications are still to be defined, the 6th round of the championship will be crucial for the title fight in GT3 and GT Cup with several drivers still in the hunt. Live TV coverage on AutomotoTV (race-1) and on Raisport1 (race-2).

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A total of 33 lineups will get on track at the Misano World Circuit for the penultimate round of the Italian GT Championship scheduled for this coming weekend as classifications are still to be defined.

In GT3, the duel on top is tight among the three Ferrari 458 Italia of Frassineti-Beretta (Ombra Racing), Schirò-Berton (Villorba Corse) and Casè-Gattuso (Scuderia Baldini 27) and the Lamborghini Gallardo of Bortolotti-Viberti (Imperiale Racing) as these lineups are all within the space of eleven points.

Among the new entries, the second car of Scuderia Baldini 27, whose lineup has not been announced yet, while Ombra Racing will take on track another 458 Italia with Gai-Necchi. The Ferrari lot will be completed by Di Amato-Mugelli (MP1 Corse), Magli-Ferrara (Easy Race), Galassi-Rizzuto (Team Malucelli) and Lucchini-Venturi (BMS-Scuderia Italia).

Four Porsche will also be present, among which the GT3R of Donativi-Postiglione (Ebimotors), that math still keeps into the title fight, while the other German coupes will be driven by Biagi-Pezzucchi (Racing Studios), Camathias-Calamia and Romani-Deodati (Autorlando).

The two Audi R8 LMS of Capello-Zonzini and that of Mapelli-Amici, will also be present and still in the title fight even if the gap bigger than thirty points makes it difficult for Audi Sport Italia. Comandini-Gagliardini (BMW Z4-ROAL Motorsport), Sini-Puglisi (Solaris Motorsport) and Monfardini-Palma (Lamborghini Gallardo-Imperiale Racing) will be present too in this penultimate round of the season.

The GT Cup title is also still to be decided, the two Porsche 997 of Pastorelli brothers (Krypton Motorsport) and of Maino-Selva are split by just one point on top of the charts. The third contender will be the Lamborghini Gallardo of Zanardini-Perel (Bonaldi Motorsport) that has a 13 points gap from the top.

The Porsche 997 lot in Misano will be quite numerous with Matteo Desideri (Antonelli Motorsport), Venerosi-Baccani, Valori-De Castro (Ebimotors), Matteo and Federico Zangari (Ghinzani Arco Motorsport), Bodega-Geraci (Drive Techology Italia) and Minetti De La Reina (Heaven Motorsport) on track.

Del Prete-Casio (Scuderia Victoria) and Mancinelli-Golstein, the lineup that has already taken the limelight last year on the Red car of Maranello, will get on track on the Ferrari 458 Italia, while the Lamboghini Gallardo of Imperiale Racing will be driven by Durante-Comi and by the Portuguese Carina Lima.

The entry list of the penultimate round of the season will be rounded up by the Lamborghini Huracan of Massimo Mantovani (Antonelli Motorsport), who was second in the Trophy ended in Vallelunga.

The racing weekend schedules two qualifying sessions on Saturday (from local 9,55 to 10,55), race-1 will follow at 17,25, while race-2 will start on Sunday at 11.

Race-1 will go live on AutomotoTV (SKY 148), while race-2 will be shown live on Raisport1 (SKY 227, freeview 57). All the races will also be available through web streaming at the website www.acisportitalia.it/GT

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