2009 FIA GT : SRT wins thriller in Algarve

2009 FIA GT Round 6 Winner : Bert LONGIN (BEL) - James RUFFIER (FRA) / CORVETTE C6R GT1 N°3 team SELLESLAGH RACING

ALGARVE, Portugal : September 20, 2009 - A thrilling race around the roller-coaster Autodromo Internacional Algarve circuit, in front of 38,700 delighted spectators, saw the nr 3 SRT Corvette Z06 of Longin and Ruffier take their first win of the season. They crossed the line 33 seconds ahead of the nr 4 Pekaracing Corvette of Hezemans and Kumpen, while the nr 2 Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC 12 of Müller and Ramos finished third, to put their recent bad luck behind them and give Miguel Ramos an extremely popular home win.

GT1 Podium

After six rounds, Bartels/Bertolini and Hezemans/Kumpen are tied on 45 points – both crews having scored two wins, a second place, a fourth and a fifth place ! The rest of the season looks like being close.

GT2 also saw a new race winner : the nr 51 AF Corse Ferrari 430 GT2 of Niki Cadei and Alvaro Barba Lopez. The pair finished ahead of the nr 60 Prospeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3 RSR of Westbrook and Collard, who take the points lead, with BMS Scuderia Italia’s Ferrari 430 GT2 taking its second successive third place.

Luis Perez-Companc finished fourth with his team-mate Matias Russo, to win the Citation Cup.

2009 FIA GT : Round 6 - Algarve, Potugal- Race Result

Pos	Car	Class	Drivers	Car	Time	Laps	Gap	Avg speed
1	3	GT1	Ruffier/Longin	Corvette Z06	2:01:39.556	66		151.31
2	4	GT1	Kumpen/Hezemans	Corvette Z06	2:02:12.778	66	33.222	150.63
3	2	GT1	Muller/Ramos	Maserati MC 12	2:02:31.466	66	51.910	150.24
4	8	GT1	Maassen/Streit/Bernoldi	Corvette Z06	2:02:37.575	66	58.019	150.12
5	1	GT1	Bertolini/Bartels	Maserati MC 12	2:02:37.866	66	58.310	150.11
6	33	GT1	Pier Guidi/Bobbi	Maserati MC 12	2:02:38.110	66	58.554	150.11
7	51	GT2	Cadei/Barba Lopez	Ferrari F430	2:02:04.645	64	2 LAPS	146.22
8	60	GT2	Collard/Westbrook	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)	2:02:18.275	64	2 LAPS	145.95
9	77	GT2	Malucelli/Ruberti	Ferrari F430	2:02:19.543	64	2 LAPS	145.92
10	95	GT2	Russo/Perez Companc	Ferrari F430	2:02:27.463	64	2 LAPS	145.77
11	56	GT2	Kirkaldy/Bell	Ferrari F430	2:02:32.659	64	2 LAPS	145.66
12	50	GT2	Bruni/Vilander	Ferrari F430	2:02:36.115	64	2 LAPS	145.59
13	97	GT2	Ragginger/Lucchini	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)	2:02:47.888	64	2 LAPS	145.36
14	55	GT2	Mullen/Niarchos	Ferrari F430	2:02:57.995	64	2 LAPS	145.16
15	78	GT2	Romanini/Bonaldi	Ferrari F430	2:03:13.144	63	3 LAPS	142.60
16	59	GT2	Sugden/Ashburn	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)	2:03:13.452	63	3 LAPS	142.59
17	40	GT1	Leinders/Kuppens	Ford GT (001 PT GT1)	1:51:27.146	59	7 LAPS	147.64
18	11	GT1	Lemeret/Hines	Saleen S7 Twin Turbo	1:41:31.472	52	14 LAPS	142.82
19	61	GT2	Holzer/O'Young	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (997)	1:03:19.589	34	32 LAPS	149.63

2009 FIA GT1 Driver Championship after 6 rounds

Pos	Name	Nat.	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	Total
1	Michael Bartels		8	10	8	5	10	4	45
	Anthony Kumpen		5	8	10	10	4	8	45
	Andrea Bertolini		8	10	8	5	10	4	45
	Mike Hezemans		5	8	10	10	4	8	45
2	Bert Longin		3	4	5	4	3	10	29
	James Ruffier		3	4	5	4	3	10	29
3	Xavier Maassen		6	5	4		5	5	25
4	Miguel Ramos			6	6	3		6	21
	Alex Müller			6	6	3		6	21
5	Alessandro Pier Guidi					8	8	3	19
6	Stephane Lemeret			3	1	8		1	13
7	Jos Menten		2			10			12
8	Matteo Bobbi						8	3	11
9	Roberto Streit						6	5	11
	Guillaume Moreau		6	5					11
	Enrique Bernoldi						6	5	11
10	Karl Wendlinger		10						10
	Ryan Sharp		10						10
	Kurt Mollekens					10			10
11	Thomas Biagi		1		4		5		10
12	Bas Leinders			2	3		2	2	9
	Renaud Kuppens			2	3		2	2	9
13	Vincent Vosse					8			8
	Carl Rosenblad					8			8
14	Adam Lacko		4	1			1		6
15	Mario Dominguez		4	1					5
	Alexandre Sarnes Negrao					5			5
	Stéphane Sarrazin					5			5
	Luke Hines			3	1			1	5
16	Oliver Gavin					4			4
	Maxime Soulet					4			4
17	Eric Van de Poele					3			3
	Thomas Mutsch		1		2				3
	Pedro Lamy					3			3
18	Markus Palttala		2						2
	Marc Hennerici				2				2
19	Max Nilsson						1		1

Images : 2009 FIA GT : Algarve, Portugal

[Source : Official FIA GT]