Hello everyone, and welcome to the opening doubleheader of races for the 2024 SRO GT4 European Series. A whole new season is ready to go at a sunny Paul Ricard. This is the first of two 60-minute races, just the same as Pirelli GT4 America run by the SRO, stateside. We have a massive grid, and mandatory pit stops for driver changes. We join our mate David Addison along with GT4 European Series champion driver, Charlie Fagg, in the commentary box for today's race. We don't really have a form guide for this. Who will come out on top? I do hope to blog more of the GT4 Europe races. I have wanted to but have missed out because of other races. I shall do everything I can to talk about these races this year. Let's see how things turn out.
Our polesitter for this first GT4 Europe race of 2024 is the #9 Matmut Evolution Toyota Supra GT4 EVO being shared by Andorran licensed Frenchman, Enzo Joulie and his co-driver, Frenchman, Etienne Cheli. Alongside Enzo Joulie on the front row is the first of the Elite Motorsports with Entire Race Engineering McLaren Artura GT4's. This is the car of Josh Rattican sharing with Thomas Lebbon, an all-British duo. Keep out of trouble going through the esses. We have Antonia Rankin reporting from the pit lane and Enzo Joulie is happy to be here racing and to be on the pole. He is looking forward to this race. There is no real strategy except to lead and be focused.
We have a massive grid of 49 cars. Turn one and the esses are going to be a handful with all these cars going through. Look, everyone, we've seen this same scenario, in the American GT4 series from SRO, and it can be a real bugaboo to get all these cars funneled through tight corners. So, everyone will have to be patient and just hang on as this race gets underway. Don't try gaining places through the corner by cutting it off. The first lap will be mayhem. Yes, this is a one-hour race with a pit stop. This is a flat-out sprint. Drivers are cutting qualifying lap after qualifying lap. Trust me. You can only do one lap around to the grid. You cannot do multiple installation laps. Championship runner up, from France, Benjamin Lariche.
Lariche sharing with fellow Frenchman Robert Consani. Consani is a former rally driver turned French GT racer. They are in the #3 Team Speedcar Audi R8 LMS GT4. Try to get airflow through these closed coupes. Drivers are nervous and want to go for it as we look at the #5 Mirage Racing entered Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4. This is the car of Dutchman Ruben del Sarte, and he will share it with another Brit, Josh Miller. They have a two-car team in the races this weekend. The sister car is #7. It has two drivers from Russia at the controls, Stanislav Safronov and Aleksandr Vaintrub. We have a real mix of brands in this event.
Toyota, Ford, Mercedes, Porsche, Alpine, and many more. We have seen a ton of competition in the last five years. We have Silver, Pro-Am, and Am driver rating categories with all GT4 spec cars in the field. The engines have fired. One minute until rolling off for the start. Rafa Racing Club is part of this championship. American driver Rafael Martinez is also the team boss. They have a couple of McLaren Artura's entered in the series. We shall talk about that. Martinez is sharing his #812 McLaren with British driver Jon Lancaster.
We have a car stalled on the grid before we have even started. There is a BMW M4 GT4 that is having mechanical troubles. It is parked by the side of the track. I have no idea why that car is off the grid. Is there trouble with it? There is an access gate to the pit lane. Let's see if the BMW will move. We are on the final formation lap to warm up the tires and brakes. Enzo Joulie on pole. Again, we have 49 cars. A massive grid. The cars turn out of the chicane on the Mistral straight. We can see there is a car with trouble. This is the #317 Chazel Technologie Course BMW M4 GT4 with Frenchman Gregory Guilvert at the controls. He is sharing alongside his countryman Antoni De Barn. He may start from the pit lane. Guilvert is a Pro-Am champion in GT racing.
So, we'll see if he is going to be able to get going. Don't count out Josh Rattigan in the McLaren. Keep an eye on the #17 BMW M4 GT4 as well. This is the L'Espace Bienvenue car of Benjamin Lessennes of Belgium sharing with Dutchman Ricardo van der Ende. Everyone is double file for the start. Enzo Joulie and Josh Rattigan have control of the field. We will see one pit stop between 25-35 minutes with a maximum pit delta of 88 seconds. Into Virage de la Tour and Virage du Pont, they come. Toyota and McLaren front row, Aston Martin second row lockout.
Red lights on. The lights flash green and away we go! Jouliet gets the jump on the field, and now Hugo Sasse is beginning to charge, the German racer starting the #99 ProSport Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 he shares with countryman Rafael Rennhofer. Rattigan runs wide over the curb onto the blue paint and more cars are indulging in autocross through the chicane at the end of the Mistral straight! There is a spinning car, and we have more delayed automobiles who are stuck in this pack. Enzo Joulie, in the meantime, is motoring away from the field. Into the chicane on the Mistral straight they come.
We are onboard the #12 BMW M4 GT4 for Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport. Berkay Besler, from Turkey, at the wheel of it, sharing with experienced Italian GT4 racer Gabriele Piana. We could have a safety car as the cars wriggle to Signes corner. Three wheels on me wagon for the #33 car. This is the Chazel Technologie Course Alpine A110 GT4 EVO shared by Belgian rookie Lorens Lecertua and Frenchman Jean Mathieu Leandri. We are behind the safety car as the reigning Alpine Cup champion is in trouble. In the middle of the pack, you cannot avoid carnage. So many cars into a tight corner. A marshal is retrieving the wheel with suspension attached. Ugh. Game over. Greg Guillvert has not started the race.
We have one absent car that did not even start. That is the #131 JSB Competition Porsche Cayman that was supposed to have Frenchman Mathieu Casalonga at the wheel of it, driving these races Marco Solo, without a co-driver. Jon Lancaster has gained many spots and is up to 11th place. Berkay Besler is trying to recover and is down in 28th place. Drivers are going through the motions currently following the safety car. We are looking at the replay trying to figure out what happened. One of the McLaren's spun, the Alpine spun, and then, everything went sideways. Joj Lancaster, he clonks into someone and runs out of road before going back onto the track.
Frustration for the drivers in the queue under yellow. Get temperature into the brakes and the tires. Enzo Joulie needs to make his move. He has moved ahead of Josh Rattican. We go green, again. Here's your top ten.
1. #9 Joulie/Cheli Matmut Evolution Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO
2. #78 Rattican/Lebbon Elite Motorsport with Entire Race Engineering McLaren Artura GT4
3. #99 Sasse/Rennhofer PROsport Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4
4. #7 Safronov/Vaintrub Mirage Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4
5. #15 Ibanez Trullols/Papadopoulos NM Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT4
6. #5 Del Sarte/Miller Mirage Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4
7. #36 Panciatici/Leclerc Code Racing Development Alpine A110 GT4 EVO
8. #20 Bulatov/Mayer EastSide Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT4
9. #3 Lariche/Consani Team Speedcar Audi R8 LMS GT4
10. #22 Nuredini/Pichler Allied-Racing Porsche Cayman GT4
Lariche gets his nose chopped off by Dennis Bulatov. Intense racing in the middle of the pack. Rattican must hold off Sasse. Enzo Jouliet is motoring away and has best time in the first sector back onto the Mistral straight once more. Enzo Joulie is making good his escape. The Toyota GR Supra is looking ideal for this track so far. Enzo Joulie cannot take too much out of the tires or out of the car. Now a battle is brewing between the #90 Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO of Toyota Gazoo Racing Sweden. This car is driven by Swedish duo Emil Skaras and Hans Holmlund. Skaras has the Porsche Cayman of Julien Briche all over him. Frenchman, Briche, is sharing the #46 Porsche Cayman with countryman Jean-Laurent Navarro
Briche and Navarro driving for JSB Competition. Two French drivers, for a French team, at a French raceway. Emil Skaras is a double Scandinavian GT4 champion. Hugo Sasse is now being harried by Stanislav Safronov in a battle of the Aston Martin's. Benjamin Lariche in the Audi has passed Dennis Bulatov in the Porsche Cayman. Bulatov is trying to come back onto the Mistral straight. No dice yet. Luc Ibanez has done the best first sector time but my gosh, Enzo Joulie is checking out and he is on a Saturday drive. Josh Rattican in the McLaren really is the best of the rest in second place and we have been racing for just ten minutes.
Ruben del Sarte is pushed wide. I don't know if the Aston Martin can defend from Nelson Panciatici. Panciatici in the Alpine is a very experienced sports car driver and makes his move. I remember Nelson Panciatici in prototypes, in LMP2 cars mostly. Now he is trying his hand at GT4. Benjamin Lariche and Dennis Bulatov also want a bite of the cherry! Panciatici is surviving all comers at this moment. Ruben del Sarte came out of the Ginetta Junior Championship. Enzo Joulie now leads Josh Rattican by 1.6 seconds. From sixth place on back we have a land rush of GT4 cars. It is what the late, great NASCAR broadcaster Ken Squier used to call an Oklahoma land rush on the plains and prairies, stampeding horses. This time, we are on the Cote d'Azur of the French riviera and we have stampeding horsepower with all these GT4 race cars!
Will Moore after a pit stop rejoins the track. This is one of the Ford Mustang GT4's in the field. Moore aboard the #62 Academy Motorsport car sharing it with Matt Niccoll-Jones. This is a team I believe that also participates in the GT4 class in the British GT Championship. Nelson Panciatici, we have not heard the last from him. He is still charging. Benjamin Lariche in the Audi, he is turning it on as well, look. Panciatici, Del Sarte, Lariche, Bulatov, and Nuredini all in this scrap in the back half of the top ten.
Josh Rattican finally settling down into a rhythm taking time out of Enzo Joulie as Jon Lancaster is having trouble being run out wide by one of the Toyota Supra's. Lancaster in the McLaren is shown some hip and shoulder by the #66 Toyota Supra GT4 EVO. That is the other Matmut Evolution Supra in the field of Czech lady driver Gabriela Jilkova and French lady racer Cindy Gudet. Another all-female duo in sports car racing. Great to see. Again, men and women both participate in racing. The car does not know the difference. Ruben del Sarte, meanwhile, is diving inside of Nelson Panciatici! Panciatici, elbows out, defending from both del Sarte and Lariche!
The Audi tries the inside through Virage de la Tour and Virage du Pont. Gabriela Jilkova is truly going for it. Lariche makes his move. For a time, he drove in the MSV run FIA Formula 2 championship in the open wheel cars. He has also raced in the old FIA GT1 World Championship and in Porsche Carrera Cup France. Dennis Bulatov, in the meantime, wants by Ruben del Sarte. Del Sarte has been pushing hard and has more speed than Panciatici and he is getting passed again and is being driven crazy because he cannot show the pace he has. We now watch the #81 Rafa Racing Club McLaren Artura with Cameron Lawrence at the wheel. We have seen Cameron Lawrence in GT4 racing stateside in both IMSA and SRO competition I believe.
The pit window will open in ten minutes and teams always seem to have a plan. Keep the Pro drivers out on track as long as possible. For the Silver drivers it is more evened out, just the same as we see in Pirelli GT4 America. Gabriele Jilkova is now closing fast on the #30 W&S Motorsport Porsche Cayman of German racer Finn Zulauf. Zulauf sharing the car with fellow German Max Kronberg. Zulauf is challenging the #22 Allied Racing Porsche Cayman of Herolind Nuredini. Zulauf trying hard to force Nuredini into a mistake. Gabriele Jilkova makes a pass for 11th place, in the Matmut liveried Toyota Supra.
Lancaster in the McLaren is running down one of the Aston Martin's. He is chasing down the #82 Racing Spirit of Leman Aston Martin Vantage GT4 of Mateo Villagomez, sharing that car with Jamie Day. Balance of Performance is a pain to figure out, but the scoop is, it makes the racing absolutely wonderful. So, it has it's bad points, but it has good points as well. Josh Rattican is really motoring trying to catch Enzo Joulie and now, look, the battle for sixth between Nelson Panciatici and Benjamin Lariche is really heating up. Lariche is still going for it. Benjamin Lariche is closing on Nelson Panciatici. Audi vs. Alpine.
They come back to Virage du Pont again. Lariche just cannot pass. Panciatici slams the door in his face. Lariche late on the brakes and tries the undercut, but no. Lariche is stymied and Del Sarte and Bulatov are coming in a big hurry. Lariche, up the inside, makes a textbook move and must reel in the top five. The pit window is looming in less than five minutes. Lariche is making good his escape. Take a deep breath and refocus. Let's take a look at the Pro-Am Cup running order.
1. #7 Safronov/Vaintrub Mirage Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT4
2. #20 Bulatov/Mayer EastSide Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT4
3. #30 Zulauf/Kronberg W&S Motorsport Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS
4. #66 Jilkova/Gudet Matmut Evolution Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO
5. #812 Lancaster/Martinz RAFA Racing Team McLaren Artura GT4
6. #98 Bouveng/Walde Lestrup Racing Team BMW M4 GT4 G82
7. #46 Briche/Navarro JSB Competition Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS
8. #75 Petit/Abramczyk AV Racing Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS
9. #70 Bouthoorn/Erdem Razoon xAutomotive Racing BMW M4 GT4 G82
10. #90 Skaras/Holmlund Toyota Gazoo Racing Sweden Toyot GR Supra GT4 EVO
11. #37 Meloni/Meloni W&S Racing Team BMW M4 GT4 G82
12. #60 Xavier/Wolf Razoon-more than racing Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS
13. #13 Vladykin/Solukovtsev Teichmann Continental Racing Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO
14. #33 Lecertua/Leandri Chazel Technologie Course Alpine A110 GT4 EVO
Safronov leading the class. Dennis Bulatov finally manages to dive inside of Ruben del Sarte. Del Sarte is fading a wee bit. Drivers want to get into the cars, the second drivers, to show what they can do. Last of the late brakers to the chciane and Bulatov makes the pass on Del Sarte! Del Sarte trying everything. Take a big, deep breath, and turn into Signes, and Del Sarte back in position through Le Beauseille! The pit window opens next time by. Bulatov cannot pass Del Sarte. Rafael Del Sarte, Ruben's dad, raced in open wheel racing in England in Formula First and other championships.
Bulatov will be defending from one of the other Porsche's. That is Finn Zulauf in the Porsche behind Bulatov. The highlighter yellow Porsche Cayman. Jon Lancaster is being given a five second pit penalty for gaining advantages from going off the road and the same for Finn Zulauf who we were just talking about. Drivers will plead innocence, but the marshals will not put up with it. Take your medicine and deal with it. There was a Porsche Cayman with a puncture and that is stopped in the middle sector. Herolind Nuredini in the #22 Allied Racing Porsche Cayman has a puncture and even more trouble.
He has pulled it behind the wall at one of the corner stations, I think. That is a local yellow as the pit window is open. Enzo Joulie is clear and controlling the pace. Joulie has had a very easy stint thus far. Nelson Panciatici, Berkay Besler, and others are in the pit lane now. The order is beginning to shuffle with the ten-minute pit window for driver changes. We now look at the Am class leader. This is the #55 Schumacher CLRT Alpine A110 GT4 EVO being driven by Pascal Huteau. He shares that car with fellow Frenchman Laurent Hurgon. CLRT is Come Ledogar Racing Team running in GT3 and GT4. Elite Motorsport have opted to pit early. #77 is in the lane. Englishman Thomas Emson and Irishman Alex Denning sharing the car.
Denning is now in the car, and that is the first of the two McLaren Artura GT4's for Elite Motorsport with Entire Race Engineering. Enzo Joulie leads having run 12 laps ahead of Josh Rattican. Jouliet and Rattican stay out and so does Hugo Sasse. Remember, there is a minimum pit time so you must stay in the lane until the clock runs down. We see the #444 car in the pit lane. That is the other Team Speedcar Audi R8 LMS GT4 of the French duo of Julien Ripert and Philippe Thalamy. I think Thalamy will take the car to the checkered flag. Rattican is caught in traffic. Rattican has made the pass on the many times aforementioned #22 Allied Racing Porsche Cayman now with Leo Pichler at the controls. The team and the drivers know that their cars might just be alive on older Pirelli tires.
So, we are officially into the second half of race one in GT4 Europe here at Paul Ricard and Hugo Sasse has pitted and John Lancaster is under investigation again who is 11th on the road in the #812 McLaren. Rattican is leaving nothing on the table. He is pushing, pushing, pushing. Rattican and Jouliet in the pit lane. Laurent Hurgon has taken over the Am class leading Alpine from Pascal Huteau but they were outside of the minimum pit time delta and are being investigated by the stewards. They have not used their joker yet or maybe they already have. Taking over the #78 McLaren Artura GT4 is now Tom Lebbon. The #15 car is also in, the NM Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT4. Lluc Ibanez Trullols hands the car over to Alex Pappadopoulos, so the Spaniard hands off to the American driver.
The race order is shuffling. Robert Consani passes Lukas Mayer. Past Mayer goes the Aston Martin as well now with Josh Miller taking over from Ruben del Sarte in the #7 Aston Martin. The leaders are now sorting themselves out. Etienne Cheli now leading Tom Lebbon. The gap is 3.9 seconds. Cheli was 8/10ths under the pit time and Tom Lebbon was half a second over the limit. A good battle going on for 12th place between the #30 Porsche Cayman, the #12 BMW M4 GT4, and the #100 Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4. Max Kronberg vs. Gabriele Piana, vs. Hendrik Still. Still has taken over the #100 PROsport Racing Aston from Fabio Rauer who started the race, a German driving duo.
Piana passes Kromberg and Kromberg gets mugged by two cars! Josh Miller now right on the back of Robert Consani. Miller tries going the long way around and, on the inside, Consani runs wide! Yikes! That was hard racing! Miller will accuse Consani of cutting the course while Consani will say, "I had no place else to go!" Etienne Cheli is maintaining his nearly four second lead and is quicker in the sectors than the McLaren behind him in the hands of Tom Lebbon. The other ProSport Aston Martin is next up with Raffaele Rennhofer. It looks like Rennhofer is racing under an Australian license.
Miller looks to pass, and it is a matter of when, with only 22 minutes on the board left in race one. There are other Toyota's in the race, but so far, they cannot match car #9. Nobody else has really had an answer to Etienne Cheli's riddle yet. The Am class leading Alpine of Laurent Hurgon still has this Damocletian investigation over it, from the stewards. He goes by the #4 Porsche Cayman, the all-French duo driving for AV Racing, Lonni Martins and Sacha Bottemanne. Let's take a look at the Am Cup standings.
1. #55 Huteau/Hurgon Schumacher CLRT Alpine A110 GT4 EVO
2. #72 Grisaud/Jimenez GPA Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4
3. #16 Cantu/Malagamuwa NM Racing Team Mercedes-AMG GT4
4. #155 Brunnhagen/Brunnhagen Toyota Gazoo Racing Sweden Toyota GR Supra GT4
5. #300 Paviot/Markiewicz Team Speedcar Audi R8 LMS GT4
6. #444 Ripert/Thalamy Team Speedcar Audi R8 LMS GT4
7. #97 Olsson/Nilsson Lestrup Racing Team BMW M4 GT4
8. #69 Kerridge/Lake Mahiki Racing Lotus Emira GT4
The Alpine is in traffic but has no opposition from his fellow Am drivers. Cindy Gudet in tenth place, is now driving the #66 Toyota Supra, the Matmut Evolution car. She comes from a background that includes ice racing, rallying, and winning six championships in French hill climbing. Jamie Day has passed and now Gabriele Piana is bidding to make a move. Jamie Day won in British GT in the GT4 category at their Oulton Park Easter race that was posted in video here on the blog a wee while ago. Cindy Gudet is not taking anything lying down, and shoves Gabriele Piana out of the way! The Toyota and the BMW, remember, run on the same kind of "floor plan" as it were. Identical running gear in both of those cars.
Hendrik Still in the Aston Martin tries passing Piana. No chance. Piana says, "not now, sunshine." We still have 18 or so minutes remaining, and we have seen some wonderful racing today. We have seen clean racing today, but now, look at this! Piana door slams both Gudet and one of the Mercedes' which goes straight down the track to take evasive action! Lukas Mayer was forced up the escape road! Pianan comes out of that shemozzle smelling like a rose and poor old Mayer had to avoid, and thankfully, he is unscathed. The BMW is looking racier than we thought and should be in the box seat for tomorrow's second race with 17 minutes left in this one.
Robert Consani now passes Aleksandr Vaintrub. Vaintrub taking over from co-driver Stanislav Sofranov. Alex Pappadopoulos is his next target who has taken over from Lluc Ibanez Trullols in the #15 NM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT4. Josh Miller is now reeling in Robert Consani. Etienne Cheli is on a Saturday drive. Nobody can catch him. Their speed has been unbelievable. For his short pit stop, Laurent Hurgon has an 11 second time penalty added to the end of his race onto whatever race time he clocks in at the end of the hour. He and Pascal Huteau are bound to drop down the order no matter what. He is the Am class leader over the Aston Martin of Kenny Jimenez.
Still, Day, and Piana, are all hurrying on. Antoine Leclerc has made his move on Vaintrub and other drivers. Cosnai in fifth spot. It has been a hard race. Antoine Leclerc has passed by Josh Miller. Audi, Alpine, Aston Martin. Just 12 minutes before race one of the weekend, is completed. 20 laps now in the bag, as Piana passes Day for ninth spot. Piana clears Day and is making good his escape. Antoine Leclerc is now right on Robert Consani's six. Oh dear! The Aston Martin runs wide with a broken left front wheel! Raphael Rennhofer is out and so is ProSport Racing! Was that a result of a curb strike?
The curbs are vicious here at Paul Ricard. Game over, and game over as wellfor another Aston Martin! This is a bad time to be an Aston Martin driver! Brazilian Roberto Faria pulls off the circuit aboard the #39 GPA Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4 he is sharing with Frenchman Baudouin Detout. Never mind. Faria has found a gear and gotten back on track. On the Mistral straight, towards the chicane they come, it is a battle for fourth spot between Antoine Leclerc in the Alpine and Robert Consani in the Audi. There is some contact. The Alpine A110 is nimbler while the Audi R8 GT4 looks rigid. Robert Consani is a rally driver but he knows how to defend.
Leclerc has another go at Consani with Josh Miller lurking. Leclerc anticipated Consani would run wide but no. Miller is beginning to reel in these two chaps. Through Virage de la Tour they go again with eight minutes on the board. The Audi on the inside loses out, and the Alpine's speed shows. Miller is pressing Consani who must defend for all he is worth! The changing fortunes of cars in this race have been incredible to watch. Good, clean racing. Consani is a veteran GT4 driver. Miller in sixth, Piana in seventh, five seconds behind. Lukas Mayer has been given a five second penalty for gaining an advantage when he could not turn and was forced up the escape road.
Max Kromberg is 13th in the overall. Marco Signoretti, the American racer, has passed Cindy Gudet in the Toyota Supra for position. This is the #61 Academy Motorsports Ford Mustang GT4 that the Canadian racer is sharing with American racer Erik Evans. Will they find more pace for race two? Alex Denning has also passed the McLaren Artura #81 which is the car Jemina Hepworth has taken over from Cameron Lawrence for the second stint in the race. Etienne Cheli can reduce his pace and bring it home. The McLaren has had faster outright pace but the Toyota drivers have strategized everything perfectly today.
Alex Papadopoulos is being chased down by Antoine Leclerc. Mercedes-AMG vs. Alpine. We should have one more lap of racing here in GT4 Europe race one at Paul Ricard. Leclerc is catching Papadopoulos. Hendrik Still who has won in GT4 is chasing down Jamie Day as it is a scrap between the older Aston Martin and the new Evo version. Final lap of the race now. The margin is some six and a half seconds between Etienne Cheli and Tom Lebbon. Leclerc trying to distract Pappadopoulos. Etienne Cheli can coast to the end of this one but now, there's a massive scrum in the middle of the pack and three cars get together with one of the Porsche Cayman's getting the worst of it! Aston Martin, Porsche, McLaren all get together and the Porsche spins and has front end damage!
Debris all over the road. Etienne Cheli and Enzo Joulie win the first GT4 Europe race of the year. Tom Lebbon and Josh Rattican will finish second and third, I think. Papdopoulos fends off Leclerc. There was all that smashing on the bottom end of the circuit just before the race ends.
Overall/Silver: #9 Joulie/Cheli Matmut Evolution Toyota GR Supra GT4 EVO
Pro-Am: #7 Vaintrub/Safronov Mirage Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT4
Am: #55 Huteau/Hurgon Schumacher CLRT Alpine A110 GT4 EVO
In this replay, we can see the wreck that happened right at the end of the motor race. Former Renault Clio racer Kevin Jimenez in the #72 GPA Racing Aston Martin comes into contact with the #46 JSB Competition Porsche Cayman of Jean Laurent Navarro. Jiminez tries avoiding running into the Porsche. This turns the Porsche around, both cars have damage, and poor Jemima Hepworth in the #81 McLaren has no place to go, except, ker-runch!, right into the side of the #46! That is such an awkward accident. What a tight corner in turn five. Hepworth was completely unlucky, and Kevin Jimenez dropped 11 seconds away from winning the Am division. So, GT4 race one from Paul Ricard is in the bag. Race two is coming up soon. We'll be back for that one very soon. Au revoir from Paul Ricard for the time being, everybody. We have plenty more racing to bring to you from the Cote d'Azur. Stay tuned.
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