Wednesday, April 6, 2022

SRO GT4 Europe, Imola: Race 2

Race 2 (Sunday)

Welcome back to the Autodromo Enzo E Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy.  Get ready for race two in this weekend's season opener for the SRO GT4 European Series.  We had a very lively race yesterday.  Race winners from yesterday, Gus Bowers and Konstantin Lachenauer, start today's race from pole, but not by virtue of their win yesterday.  Rather, by dint of their qualifying results.  Chilly weather again here at Imola calls for two formation laps before the start.  We join David Addison and Ben Constanduros once more, for the call of the race action.  Pierre-Louis Chouvet, Johan Boris Scheier, and Arkadia Racing were disqualified in their Alpine A110 GT4 because the car did not adhere to it's proper rev limit of 7,000 RPM.  They were deleted from the results of race one.  There are a couple of grid drops we will speak of.  Many drivers did not follow Full Course Yellow procedure in race one.  

It is possible that Race Control can speak to a driver directly.  It can be plumbed through by the team.  Steve Burns, Race Director says the info has to be patched through to the drivers or the crew chief tells the driver there is a Full Course Yellow coming.  Lachenauer and Bowers are on pole as we said.  Alpine #13 was excluded from race one but Pierre Louis Chouvet will drive in the second stint today.  Many drivers have either already been a part of GT3 or are aspiring to get there.  Bowers on pole with Vincent Beltoise second.  Erwan Bastard sharing with Roee Meyuhas, they have the #14 Sainteloc Racing Audi R8 LMS GT4 next on the grid in third.  Fourth place goes to Akhil Rabindra sharing with Tom Canning in the second Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin, car #19.

After that, it is a similar Aston Martin for AGS Events.  This is their third car, #89, with an all-French duo.  Wilfried Cazalbon will take the start and then hand over mid-race to Julien Lambert.  Lambert is actually in the car.  Konstantin Lachenauer and his team want to go for the double here at Imola.  Speedcar Audi has withdrawn.  Today, we will see the #36 Alpine A110 GT4, a car that was absent from race one.  #36 is run by Code Racing Development and has two French drivers with Loic Villiger and Antoine Leclerc.  Another all-French effort.  

The #15 car after qualifying issues, has had a grid drop.  #15 will start 44th after originally qualifying 41st, and this is after the collision yesterday.  That's Lluc Ibanez and Enzo Joulie aboard the first NM Racing Team Mercedes AMG GT4.  Another car to look out for is Greystone GT with their McLaren 570S GT4.  That is car #47 with Adam Carroll and Tim Whale co-driving.  That car had a front suspension failure yesterday.  The crew finished working on the car early this morning.  In the Gisy family, Christian Gisy is the dad and his two sons are also racing.  Just thought that should be noted.  Once again, we have a giant grid for this race.  We have 47 cars in the race today.

Two formation laps due to the need to get heat in the tires.  We started the weekend with 49 cars.  We are missing the #24 Prosport Aston Martin of Hugo Sasse and Mike Ortmann which had a massive accident yesterday and was damaged beyond repair.  The second formation lap is not counting within the one-hour duration of this motor race.  Will we get 47 cars through the first few turns?  I would think so.  This is wide open as far as the race goes.  The cars are different, but they are all GT4 cars.  Through Rivazza they come.  Gus Bowers and Vincent Beltoise on row one.  Erwan Bastard and Akhil Rabindra on row two.

The lights flash green.  We're underway!  Gus Bowers leads towards Tamburello as there's argy bargy already between Bastard and Beltoise!  Beltoise gets the worst of it and has spun into the gravel.  I'm expecting to see something yellow.  Tijmen Nabuurs is getting put down the order.  Gus Bowers is pushing, pushng, pushing.  We are now under safety car conditions.  Race Director Steve Burns makes it official.  Drivers just went three wide and everything concertinaed.  For the first time in GT4, there is a simple system in the car that shows the flags digitally to the drivers on a screen on the dash.  Erwan Bastard was halfway to the flank of Vincent Beltoise, but it just was not on and Beltoise got rotated.

Car #29 is indeed being towed out of the gravel trap.  The drivers know that corner is a pinch point.  Beltoise will go a lap down.  Funneling 47 cars into a chicane is very hard to do.  Another of the Alpine's plummeted like a stone off the start.  This happened to be the #55 Autosport GP car for Laurent Hurgon sharing with Jean-Baptiste Mela.  Hurgon has been a major force as a Renault Sport development driver in recent years.  We've also seen Enzo Joulliet plummet to stone last in the field.  A Porsche is stalled at the side of the road.  Trying to tell who it is stranded down there.  The stalled Porsche is the #37 W&S Motorsports Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR.  Andrey Solukvtsev at the controls sharing with Mikhail Loboda.

The car has started again and is back on it's way.  So the two cars stalled are now back on the map.  We can get back to racing shortly.  Three laps done.  There is a pit stop window to adhere to between 25 and 35 minutes with an 89 second required stop time.  Safety Car in this lap from Race Director Steve Burns.  Burns is also a steward for the SRO eSports championship.  You can race both GT3 and GT4 with mixed races or standalone GT4 races on the simulators on the Assetto Corse platform.  So, we are getting set to restart the real race as Gus Bowers is going to resume in the lead.  He is off like a rocket!  Bowers leaves his rivals in the dust.  

Akhil Rabindra is looking for a way around Wilfried Cazalbon through Tamburello.  Aston, Alpine, Porsche.  The Aston Martin is suited for this track at Imola because of the horsepower.  Climbing from Tosa to Piratella.  Your top ten runs as follows.  Gus Bowers, Erwan Bastard, Wilfried Cazalbon, Akhil Rabindra, Fabien Michal, Christophe Hamon, Johan Boris Scheier, Ivan Jacoma, Antoine Potty, and Thijmen Nabuurs.  The two Akkodis ASP Mercedes AMG GT4's are buried in 29th and 30th in the overall but have their Am ranked drivers at the controls of each one.  Jean Luc Beaubelique is 29th.  Eric Debard is 30th.  

Down to Rivazza they go.  Vincent Beltoise is back in the race, a lap down.  Scheier is passed by Jacoma.  So, Gus Bowers leads as Vince Beltoise has uncorked fastest lap but is immediately taken over on fast lap by Erwan Bastard.  Antoine Potty and his team had a terrible race yesterday.  Potty is running ninth and right on the Alpine's six.  Tom Verdier tries to pass and is chased by yet another Alpine out of Tosa and up to Piratella.  Trying to see which of the Alpine A110 GT4's this is as there are a few of them in the race.  Ah.  It is the second Autosport GP entry from France, car #110. with a French duo driving.  Pierre Sancinena at the controls right now, and he will hand over later on to Simon Tirman.

Bowers is half a second ahead of Erwan Bastard.  A fight between Pro Am and Am level Audi's.  Christophe Hamon is being held off by Fabien Michal.  Hamon passes in the braking zone!  That's bold and daring.  Ivan Jacoma wants to pass as they fly through Rivazza and Ivan Jacoma moves to the lead in Pro Am over Fabien Michal.  Gus Bowers uncorks fastest lap and continues leading over Erwan Bastard.  Antoine Potty passes Fabien Michal as well.  Ivan Jacoma will hand the Porsche Cayman Clubsport to Alex Fontana for the second stint and Antoine Potty will hand the Toyota Supra to Romain Monti.  That is the #66 CMR Toyota GR Supra GT4.  

Rodrigue Gillion, the Belgian driver, has just pitted the #25 PROsport Racing Aston Martin.  Now, just maybe, he stepped in the car to take over from co-driver and fellow Belgian, Nico Verdonck, a very experienced GT racer.  Then again, Gillion could be on the first stint for the race as well.  Not sure what their strategy is./  Out of Tosa, look, we have a massive queue of cars all liner stern.  Thijmen Naboors may have had a fracas out of the circuit and due to that, he has been caught by everybody else.  Verdier is actually pulling away from Naboors as we speak and we have only 13 minutes on the board in this one hour race.

Major battle here, look, between one of the Mercedes' and the V8 Racing Chevrolet Camaro GT4.R. This is Kenny Herremans of Belgium driving the #17 entry.  Herremans will hand the Camaro to co-driver Dante Rappange of the Netherlands, later on.  Herremans slots into line out of Variante Alta and he now has Will Burns, the British driver, aboard the BMW M4 GT4 right on his six.  That is the #12, the second car for Turkish team Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport and Burns is sharing with Turkish driver Berkay Besler.  More issues for the #37 Porsche that we saw parked up on the circuit before.  It is stopped again, look.  Gremlins again for the W&S Motorsports Cayman.  

Yellow flag in sector three.  Erwan Bastard is half a second behind Gus Bowers.  The scrap is third between Wilfred Cazalbon and Akhil Rabindra is monstering him trying to move to the inside.  This is the battle of two Aston Martin's.  Christophe Hamon in the third Team Fullmotorsport Audi, car #69 is right in the fight as well.  Fighting with another driver makes you lose touch with your target and you fall into the clutches of the next bloke who is right behind and wants to pass you.  The only reason another car is out on that speedway is to be passed.  

Christophe Hamon through Piratella and more trouble for the #29 entry of Vincent Beltoise.  So that Mirage Racing car has gone off the road a second time.  Christophe Hamon is fifth in the overall as an Am ranked driver.  Cazalbon meanwhile, is the cork in the bottle and he is holding up up a number of other drivers who want to pass.  The Alpine is off at Tamburello and he got biffed out of the way by someone at Tamburello corner.  It could have been the #7 Aston Martin.  That is Andy Noah, another Frenchman, in one of the three AGS Events cars.  Full Course Yellow now.  What a tight squeeze for third place!  5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  Full Course Yellow now.  Full Course Yellow.

We wonder how long it will take this incident to be cleaned up.  It is pretty cool outside and actually unbelievably cold here at Imola.  Working the eighth lap of this race.  Vincent Beltoise who started on the front row, that Alpine feels it has indeed been abused.  Vincent Beltoise has had a race to forget.  Just shake it off and move on to the next race.  Erwan Bastard was right on the tail of Gus Bowers and has fallen into the clutches of another Aston Martin.  He will be bunched into the pack and then be able to move ahead, perhaps.  Safety cars breed safety cars.  Ivan Jacoma and Fabien Michal are sixth and seventh followed by Antoine Potty in the Toyota Supra as we go to the full safety car procedure.  Thank you, Steve Burns, Race Director.

Everyone obeyed Full Course Yellow, unlike yesterday's race.  The safety car can run at a faster speed than the regulation Full Course Yellow speed and we will have just one lap of safety car before we turn them loose again.  Thijmen Nabuurs has pitted, and the lane is closed.  Maybe this was for emergency service?  So, this is a short safety car period as it will head for the lane this time 'round.  Something is wrong with the Aston Martin to be honest.  Speaking of Aston, though, Gus Bowers is ahead.  Kenton Koch was supposed to drive the other aston that we saw with troubles.  Porsche #37 is still stranded as we watch the #14 Audi of Erwan Bastard.  Five minutes from now, the pit window is scheduled to open.  

Team manager of the aforementioned #14 car is being called to the stewards office.  The Sainteloc Audi could be facing a penalty.  Green flag back in the air as Gus Bowers can clear away into a lead of sorts.  We are indeed back to green just before the pit window opens.  We don't have much bunching in the field.  Christophe Hamon is doing all he can to get past Akhil Rabindra.  Rabindra, too, is reeling in Wilfried Cazalbon hand over fist.  Erwan Bastard is pressing Gus Bowers, too as the cars exit the Villeneuve chicane and many cars run wide.  Tim Whale is 31st.  We also have a scrap between Tim Whale and Jim Pla.  

Rabindra is going bonkers trying to pass Cazalbon.  In racing, you must have patience.  Rabindra has a good exit at Variante Alta, but no dice.  They are tied togethered and here comes Christophe Hamon as well, look.  Cazalbon continues to be the cork in the bottle, defending his position for all it is worth.  Audi to the outside!  Three wide!  Rabindra gets chopped and Cazalbon slides wide onto the gravel!  Three wide again!  Cazalbon has junk all over his tires, ad now, what will happen?  What next in this race?  What next?  What gravel?  Wilfried Cazalbon is not giving up.  Christophe Hamon is going to get squeezed out of the way!  This fight for third is now a wrestling match between darn near everyone else in the field because the two leaders have skipped merrily ahead of it while this pack is snapping and tearing at each other like a pack of wolves!

Hammon sticks the pass on Rabindra!  Job done!  Wow.  That didn't take long.  I think these blokes might finally realize that going single file for a bit is a good idea.  Hamon wants a class win in Am.  He does not want to be duking it out with these Silver Cup rated cars.  Hamon dives past Cazalbon!  Bish, bash, bosh.  He makes the move carving past like the proverbial hot knife through butter.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.  Poor old Akhil Rabindra has to be tearing his hair out trying to pass!  Christophe Hamon just dove his way down the inside, and away he goes.  Don't let the chap in front of you get comfortable and bully you.

Ivan Jacoma is going to try and make his move too on Cazalbon.  Poor old Cazalbon is wondering what hit him.  Fabien Michal is in a scrap as well with Antoine Potty still in the fight, too.  Potty has not gone anyplace.  Johan Boris Scheier and Tom Verdier also want a piece of this.  Andreas Mayrl also tries coming through in the #22 Allied Racing Porsche Cayman and runs wide allowing Verdier to have a bite of the cherry.  The pit window is open now.  What else is happening?  They come pouring down the hill and then back uphill again.  Will Burns is also in this fight.  Several cars pit while Antoine Potty stays on track.

If you are the quicker driver, you will cover more of the stint.  So, along with Antoine Potty, we have seen Gus Bowers, Erwan Bastard, and Christophe Hamon stay on track.  We saw a couple Porsche's side by side in Acqua Minerale.  Wilfred Cazalbon is in the lane along with Ivan Jacoma, Fabien Michals, and Max Kronberg.  Kronberg is sharing with fellow German Hendrik Still aboard the #38 W&S Motorsport Porsche Cayman.  We have a busy pit lane and wholesale driver changes going on as we reach the halfway mark in GT4 race two here at Imola.  

Gus Bowers is well clear of everyone else while Erwan Bastard is under investigation by the stewards for contact.  The team boss is beckoned to Race Control.  A 30 second penalty can be majorly damaging to track position.  No news of a probable penalty.  Maybe the meeting has not happened yet.  Gus Bowers continues to lead.  Alex Fontana has taken over from Ivan Jacoma in the Porsche Cayman.  That is the #718 entry I believe.  The all-Swiss effort for Centri Porsche Ticino.  Yesterday's polesitter, the #22 Cayman for Allied Racing, will now have the driver getting in who scored the pole for the Saturday event, Vincent Andronaco, to take it to the flag.

Keep in mind the #718 car.  That is the car that has come out first from the first round of pit stops.  Gus Bowers aboard the #10 Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin continues to lead.  89 seconds is the line to line pit lane delta.  Bowers is into the pit lane and so now, Erwan Bastard has to cut a qualifying lap to gain anything.  Konstantin Lachenauer will take over the Aston for the second stint.  Antoine Potty is into the lane as well and will hand over Toyota Supra #66 to Romain Monti.  Erwan Bastard slices past Etienne Cheli aboard the #8, the second CMR Toyota Supra.  Cheli may very well hand that car over to co-driver Corentin Surand before long.  Not too sure.  Maybe the order is reversed and Surand handed it to Cheli.

Erwan Bastard has compromised his lap times and has been racing in the 1:49 range.  Gus Bowers has handed #10 over to his co-driver.  Clear track for the most part.  So, Christophe Hamon is cutting his way through the traffic and there will be a penalty to #14 for causing a collision, stewards' decision.  So, Erwan Bastard will serve a ten second penalty and he might be able to take it in the pit stop itself.  Although he also must hand the car over to Roee Meyuhas.  Hamon leads over the #15 entry of Enzo Joulie.  Enzo Joulie has brought the NM Racing Team Mercedes AMG GT4 to second spot.  Mercedes #51 is off the road.  We saw this car in strife in yesterday's race too.

This is the sister NM Racing Mercedes for Jakub Knoll from the Czech Republic and another Spanish driver, Filip Vava.  Hamond leading Am, while Erwan Bastard is in the lane.  He may have nullified his pit stop.  The rules state "Should the stewards decide to implement a time penalty, the following procedure shall be applied.  At the car's pit stop, the driver must enter the pit lane and stop at his pit stop position under parc ferme conditions for the given penalty time.  No one from the team may touch the car, and the driver cannot open the door.  Once the time has elapsed, the pit stop according to Articles 36 and 39, may begin."

Bingo.  That's the rule, clear as crystal, in the book.  In theory, Erwan Bastard will sink down the order with the co-driver driving.  His stop is a 1:40 while others are at 1:29.  Roee Meyuhas from Israel has taken over the #14 Audi.  To the lane now comes #69, one of the other chartreuse hued Audi's, from Team Fullmotorsport.  Never mind.  Never mind.  This is the Hammon entry now being handed over to fellow Frenchman Michael Blanchemain.  One of the Gisy family Aston Martin's is under investigation for speeding in pit lane.  That is one of the Team Spirit Racing cars.  Christian Gisy hands over to Vincent Gisy.  Two German brothers on that team I believe, or, they could be father and son.  Moritz Gisy is listed alongside Vincent in the sister car.

Alex Fontana passes Michel Blanchemain for second spot.  Roee Meyuhas has gone past and here, look, it is Greg Guillvert second place in the Pro-Am division.  One of the other Aston Martin's is a way back.  That is the #89 car for AGS Events with the duo of Julien Lambert and Wilfried Cazalbon.  Despite a slow pit stop, the virtual leaders now are the #10 team.  That is the Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin with Swiss driver Konstantin Lachenauer at the controls.  In spite of their pit stops, the Aston Martin teams are now on the back foot compared to the Audi and Toyota runners or so it seems.

So, Konstantin Lachenauer leads followed by Alex Fontana, Roee Meyuhas is third.  Fourth goes the way of Gregory Guillvert.  Michel Blanchemain is next ahead of Roman Monti, Tom Canning, Berkey Besler, Moritz Wiskirchen (the German driver in the #44, the second Allied Racing Porsche Cayman he shares with Dane Alexander Hartvig), and Hendrik Still.  Vincent Andronaco, who ran so well yesterday, is still one to watch.  Car #11 pinged by the stewards for a pit stop being too short.  That is the BMW M4 GT4 shared by the Turkish drivers, Jason Tahincioglu and Yagiz Gedik.  The team, Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport, also being Turkish.

#89 just lost a boatload of positions due to penalties and pit stop exchanges, plummeting like a stone from fourth to 13th place.  Michael Blanchemain on the defensive, realizes he is being passed by cars he does not have to fight as they are in a separate class.  Romain Monti makes his move.  Tom Canning should do likewise.  Canning's rival is Julien Lambert in 13th overall aboard the #89 Aston Martin, the AGS Events car.  Team manager of the #7 Aston Martin which is the sister AGS Events Aston Martin is to report to the stewards immediately for a meeting about one of the drivers, causing a collision, either Andy Noah or Hugo Conde.

Alex Fontana currently leads Pro-Am in the #718 car.  That is the oft mentioned Porsche Cayman for Centri Porsche Ticino out of Switzerland.  A Swiss driver for a Swiss team.  Fontana clearly has the pace and poor old Greg Guillvert might just struggle to keep up.  Glad to see Fontana in GT4.  He has been a stalwart in GT3 in the past, but not in 2022.  That's a shame.  Jim Pla is another driver who has shifted between GT3 and GT4 in recent years and can drive both types of cars well.  He is a wee bit down the order.  Good scrap here, look, plunging downhill.  

Michel Blanchemain is losing spots to his competitors.  Contact between a couple Porsche's, Vincent Andronaco vs. Hendrik Still with 19 and a half minutes to go.  We continue to watch Vince Andronaco, scything his way through traffic.  More drivers and cars being examined and a number of team managers being summoned to Race Control.  Konstantin Lachenauer continues to lead Silver and overall.  He is on his own private test day with no back markers, and he is even faster than Gus Bowers, his co-driver.  1:49.9 for Lachenauer.  Jim Pla, fastest of all.  So, Fontana ahead of the aforementioned yellow Audi and the blue Audi of Roee Meyuhas.

17 minutes left on the board, and Konstantin Lachenauer, right now is racing in a different league, a different zip code than everyone else.  He is nine and a half seconds clear of the rest of the field!  He is on a Saturday cruise.  Pierre Louis Chouvet makes a pit stop.  He and his co-driver were disqualified from yesterday's race.  Guilvert makes his move for third and truthfully, Meyuhas just gave it up.  He knew that Guilvert was a lot faster.  It is Porsche vs. Audi.  Alex Fontana vs. Greg Guillvert.  The Toyota is almost on two wheels!  He can run the curbs more, with a higher ride height on that Toyota Supra.  Nine makes in GT4.  

Nose to tail down the hill through Piratella!  It is Toyota vs. Porsche!  Andronaco wants to catch and pass Monti.  You better believe it.  Andronaco, down the hill through Rivazza and all the way to the start/finish line is right on the tail of Corentin Surand.  Fontana, Guillvert, and Meyuhas are still in a line as well, chasing after each other.  Vincent Andronico has just made the pass for sixth place.  Next up, he will try to pass the Aston Martin of Tom Canning.  Dante Raponje in the Camaro has cleared the Mercedes of Gabriela Jilkova, the #4 Dragon Racing Team ZVO car being shared by Jilkova and Robert Haub.  But contact is made between Rapange in the Camaro and Michel Blanchemain in the Audi!  Blanchemain is off.

He has just lost the lead in class to Julien Lambert.  Rapange still squirrely through Variante Alta!  Ride 'em cowboy there, for the Dutchman.  Andy Noah cops a drive through penalty for his contact earlier on with Anthony Beltoise.  Meanwhile, Greg Guillvert is closing up on Alex Fontana.  A debris flag at Tamburello, perhaps for gravel on the road.  Despite using up oodles of curb in Acqua Minerale, Konstantin Lachenauer holds the lead down here in GT4 race two, 8.2 seconds to the good over Alex Fontana.  The Porsche and the Audi can run over the curbing more aggressively than the Mercedes.  Watch out for the curbs.  It is so easy to break a suspension piece, or a whole axle, clattering over those things.

Ten minutes to go as the Fontana and Guillvert scrap continues.  Mercedes #53 is off the road in the gravel trap!  That is one of the AKKA ASP cars, the #53 for the French duo of Pascal Gibbon and Christophe Bourret.  Gibon at the controls.  That was a self-inflicted spin.  Too much right foot into the Villeneuve chicane, and he goes sailing off the road.  It seems he might be buried in the gravel but is at an access point where the marshals can snatch him out of the gravel trap.  We will likely have a Full Course Yellow followed by a safety car.  In that case, Guillvert has to pull the pin and get past Fontana, now.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  Full Course Yellow.  Lachenauer backed off way early as he knew the yellow was coming.  Therefore he has lost his advantage.  In the meantime, we have two cars off the road out of Villeneuve and into Tosa, and there was another wreck where two cars made contact and one of them speared off plowing backwards on the left side into the Armco.  It looks like, also, a Supra ran up the back of a Mercedes.  People just are totally caught flatfooted here and not responding properly to the call by the Race Director for a Full Course Yellow.  Yellow, means danger.  No overtaking.  That is the rule, one of the first rules you are taught in motor racing.

The onus is on the teams to patch the Race Director channel into their radios because there is just no excuse at all for being unaware that there is an incident and then you get a domino effect, and everyone everywhere is just playing dodge 'em cars.  Alpine #110 just took a huge shot into the Armco.  Simon Tirman is OK, but he can't be happy.  That car off in the gravel, look, is the #32, one of the two Mercedes AMG GT4's from Selleslagh Racing out of Belgium.  #32 is the all-Belgian duo of Johann Vannerum and Jean-Luc Behets.  Vannerum was at the wheel at the time of the incident.  We have had two more incidents that have caused this Full Course Yellow and across both races, we have seen this.  

Every team has to patch the Race Director's channel through to their drivers on the radio.  At the top of the shop, Lachenauer has lost time to both Guillvert and Fontana.  You can't overtake under yellow.  Even so, the teams have not warned the drivers of an FCY.  Strange stuff.  That is exactly where there is a countdown of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.  There has to be a light on the dash but not a timing countdown.  For safety, the Race Director has to be patched in to give innfo necessary.  Michel Blanchemain has caught up to the #89 AGS Events Aston Martin, of Wilfried Cazalbon and Julien Lambert.  It's Julien Lambert at the wheel of it.  Michel Blanchemain will be right on his six if we go back to green.

However, sorting incidents in the waning moments, we'll see.  It seems some of the cars have been cleared away.  Everyone is still trundling 'round on the rev limiter or at least at reduced speed.  AGS Events is one of those few companies where you can drive a classic Formula 1 car.  There was an AGS Formula 1 car and a Formula 2 car.  But those were completely different teams in open wheel racing.  Car #9 of the Gisy's will have a penalty that will be added to their race time at the end of the motor race.  That's right down at the back, caboose on the field.  I am afraid we won't get this race restarted.  

We are not yet under safety car procedure because the safety car does not have it's lights on.  80 clicks on track.  50 clicks in the pit lane.  We might not get back to racing.  No.  We will just trundle around to the end of this race.  This event has been much cleaner compared to yesterday's race.  We have been robbed of the Fontana and Guilvert battle to the end of the race.  Fastest lap to Tom Canning who will come home fifth.  The order is the order is the order.  So, we are going to sort out the results here.  Race will end under Full Course Yellow.  Checkered flag displayed now.  We end early.  There's the checkered flag.

No point in trundling around for no reason.  Blanchemain somehow has overtaken the #80 car.  Is that an illegal move?  Will he be penalized?  Bowers and Lachenauer win it.  Pro Am honors go to the #718 Porsche for Alex Fontana and Ivan Jacoma.  The Am class victory goes to    

Overall/Silver:    #10 Lachenauer/Bowers     Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4

             Pro Am: #718 Fontana/Jacoma       Centri Porsche Team Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport                                                                         MR

             Am: #89 Lambert/Cazalbon           AGS Events Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4

Aston Martin secures two of the three trophies in race two of GT4 Europe at Imola.  The next GT4 Europe event of 2022 will be a support race to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup just as it was here at Imola, when the cars and stars of GT4 make their way to the south of France at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France.  That event will take place the first weekend in June.  See you then, for more GT4 Europe action.  It should be fun.  Bye bye.  


                        

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