Razoon Porsche victorious in Gedlich 6 Hours Portimao

Razoon Porsche clinched victory within the inaugural Gedlich Racing six-hour race in Portimao, with Simon Birch and Thomas Andersen seeing off a aggressive area of their 992 GT 3.

The primary-ever six-hour race organised by Gedlich featured a 35-minute minimal mixed pitstop time within the first 5 hours and half-hour throughout no less than 5 pitstops.

After a number of lead modifications in the course of the early pitstop cycles, the Landgraf Mercedes duo of Jorg Viebahn and Tom Kalender would match Birch and Andersen, however the hole remained at roughly a minute all through the race.

This cut up was established within the second hour, after Landgraf’s Viebahn remained within the automobile for longer than Andersen, and Birch took full benefit within the Razoon Porsche.

Andersen and Birch would in the end win by one minute and 23 seconds, after the Landgraf Mercedes acquired 20 seconds value of observe limits penalties. Viebahn and Kalender completed second, whereas the AKM Motorsport Mercedes entry of Marco Antonelli, Raffaele Giammaria and Aaron Farhadi rounded out the general podium, beating the Greystone GT McLaren of Oliver Webb and Andrey Borodin as a result of better consistency.

Within the Cup 2 class for Porsche 992 Cup vehicles, the A-Workx workforce managed a lot of the race, courtesy of notably fast stints from Nico Menzel and faultless working from Rodriguez Menzl. The Mtech Competitors workforce from Sweden put in a very good effort, with explicit heroics from Gustav Soderberg Krogh throughout his stints.

A-Workx in the end received the category, taking fifth general and ending a lap away from the Mtech automobile. Steiner Racing rounded out the Cup 2 podium.

Lionspeed GP have been victorious within the GT4 class, regardless of beginning the race with a short go to to the pits. The road-up of Damian Freda, Steven Berndtson and Patrick Kolb have been solely 35 seconds away from the NM Racing Crew Mercedes on the finish, however this was prolonged by 20 seconds after late observe limits penalties accrued by NM’s Ian Loggie.

The Spanish workforce had the strongest tempo within the GT4 class, however a slew of dangerous luck befell the AMG GT4. This included a shock absorber failure within the first hour and a puncture in hour 4.

Monteiros Competicoes completed tenth general and received the TCX class.

Gedlich Racing will run a second six-hour contest on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on 14-16 March.