Engstler Lamborghini doubles up in Valencia at GT Winter Series

Engstler Motorsport Lamborghini claimed a pair of race wins within the Valencia spherical of the GT Winter Sequence.

The opening dash race on Saturday was red-flagged when AF Corse Cup 1 entrant Talal Shair suffered a significant influence firstly, taking contact from Mertel Motorsport’s Oscar Ryndziewicz behind, which put him within the wall after which right into a secondary hit with fellow AF Corse entrant Sven Schomer. The injury took out Shair for the remainder of the weekend.

On the restart Juliano Holzem led the sector within the yet-to-be-homologated Evo-spec BMW. The Invitational entry was below scrutiny from Comtoyou Racing’s Matisse Lismont, in his Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 Evo. Whereas Lismont saved Holzem sincere, the German driver was in a position to handle the race from the entrance, profitable his first race on the wheel of a GT3 BMW.

Lismont completed second, profitable the GT3 class, forward of GT3 Professional class victor Jonas Karklys in third total within the Engstler Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo II.

Within the second dash race on Sunday morning Luca Engstler equipped on pole place to race for the primary time since sustaining injuries at Macau in November. For a second consecutive race, an early multi-car conflict threw the competition into chaos.

Moritz Wiskirchen, within the SR Motorsport Mercedes pushed by Heyer the day before today, clashed with Rafael Suzuki on the apex of Flip 1, with Suzuki’s Aston Martin collected by Alberto Duran within the AF Corse Ferrari and Plusline Racing Crew’s Joachim Bolting.

Engstler continued to guide as the security automobile was deployed, and upon the resumption of the race, he set about distancing himself from the sector and went on to take victory forward of Holzem and the Cup 1-winning Araujo Competicao Ferrari of Goncalo Araujo.

For the third and remaining race, Jonas Karklys began the Engstler Lamborghini from pole forward of Holzem and Kobe Pauwels (Comtoyou Aston Martin) in third place.

Karklys pitted from the lead within the early levels of the 10-minute obligatory pitstop window,
whereas Holzem was one of many final to pit. He handed the Schubert BMW over to twin brother Sandro, who exited the pits within the lead. Engstler was in second place, and with 20 minutes remaining, he was slightly below 4 seconds behind Holzem.

Site visitors would play its half in bringing the pair along with seven and a half minutes left on the clock. At Flip 1, Engstler carried extra velocity than Holzem, permitting him run in the direction of Flip 2, the place Holzem ran barely large. After operating side-by-side by means of Flip 3, Engstler yielded on the subsequent apex, establishing Holzem for an overtake at Flip 5.

In site visitors Engstler constructed a cushion and claimed the general and GT3 Professional class victory for he and Karklys. The Holzem household BMW took second total, forward of GT3 winners Kobe Pauwels and Matisse Lismont of Comtoyou Racing.

In GT4, SR Motorsport’s Jay Mo Hartling took victory within the opener, earlier than handing over to Enrico Forderer who claimed high honours in race two. The pair duly teamed up within the third race to take a clear sweep, taking victory by 9.6 seconds from Tom Lebbon and McKenzy Cresswell for Elite Motorsport.