The Sunday race had a bitter end with the burst of the left rear tyre on Kujala’s car on the last lap.
A hot summer day welcomed the cars on the racetrack for today promising intense sport activity in the amazing Alpine setting of the Redbull Ring.
The morning Race 2 Qualifying Session featured Milos Pavlovic and Florian Spengler. This was a drawn session with very narrow time gaps: 23 cars were within one second from the Pole Position. In this lottery the two Bonaldi Motorsport flagship drivers were given two unlucky tickets: despite leads of only 1”170 for Kujala and of 1”303 for Spengler, the two drivers achieved only the twenty-eighth and the thirty-first positions respectively.
This forced the crews to set an aggressive race. Pavlovic kept his position with his Lamborghini Huracán while Spengler lost one position during the crowded first lap. However, the two crews started to press and in the following laps they gained some positions: at the fourth lap, Pavlovic was placed twenty-seventh while Spengler twenty-ninth. Unfortunately, the need to recover positions had a great cost for the German driver who underwent an accident at the Remus Kurve. This accident forced him to drop out at the sixth lap.
The Serbian driver raced on gaining position after positions and reaching twenty-second place. To reinforce the recovery the team strategists chose a late pit-stop at the twenty-first lap. Patrick Kujala got into his car with determination and went on with the work done by his team mate. After a few laps and thanks to his masterful exploitation of two Safety Cars, he could reach the fourteenth position.
On the last lap, at the end of the main straight, the Lamborghini Huracán no. 3 car suffered a left rear tyre burst. This was exactly what happened yesterday to his team mate Zonzini.
A very unlucky weekend for the team from Bergamo finally ended.
Race 2: 1. Kfzteile24-APR Motorsport (Audi) STOLL-VANTHOOR; 2. Callaway Competition (Corvette) GOUNON-KEILWITZ; 3. Bentley Team ABT (Bentley) ABT-PEPPER ; 4 – RWT Racing team (Corvette) LIPS-BARTH; 5. AMG –Team Zakspeed (Mercedes) LUDWIG-ASCH
