![]() In second place was the #7 Austin Healey 3000 Mk I driven by Eugène Deleplanque and Romain Guerardelle finished just shy of the podium in his #34 MG B. The green light went on and the cars were unleashed. The Mahe/Scemama duo had dominated the weekend in the qualifying sessions. Yvan Mahe shot into the lead in his #20 Lister Chevrolet followed by Guy Ziser at the wheel of his #77 3.8 E-Type Jaguar. This series welcomes the oldest cars of the series by Peter Auto. The Fifties’ Legends took to the track for a 1 hour and 20 minute race. GLÄSEL (#16), winner of the previous race made it a double thanks to his victory in race 2 followed by David Hart (#34) and Stanley/Littlejohn (#37). The Endurance Racing Legends brought down the curtain on Mugello Classic. This didn’t destabilise the LMP1s of Gläsel (#16) and d’Ansembourg (#17) who finished in first and second places on the podium with Mike Newton in his #25 MG EX264 third. Twenty minutes before the end of the race the #25 MG EX264 took the lead. Behind them, a duel for third raged between the #88 GT1 Aston Martin in the hands of Philip Kadoorie and the #37 Courage C65 driven by Briton Harvey Stanley. ![]() The two LMP1 prototypes driven by Christian Gläsel (#16) and Christophe d’Ansembourg (#17) filled the first two places. The start of the first race of the weekend for the ERLs was a pretty hectic affair. Franck Morel came home second and Stretton third. For the second time, Guenat won the race. The French driver dominated followed by Morel (#1031) and Diogo Ferrao’s team-mate Martin Stretton, who had taken over. With fifteen minutes to go the checkered flag, Maxime Guenat looked unbeatable on this race-packed Sunday in Tuscany. But there was an unexpected twist when Guenat went off in #49 putting an end to the TOJ SC303’s race! Diogo Ferrao seized this unexpected opportunity to snatch third place. ![]() In the P-2L category Franck Morel fought his way up through the field in his #131 TOJ SC206 finishing fourth overall and first in his category. The second to last race was led by Maxime and Dominique Guenat who had just won the Heritage Touring Cup followed by Yves Scemama at the wheel of his TOJ SC304 (#52) duking it out with the TOJ SC303 (#49) driven by Dominique Guenat. The final classification of the race was Max Banks (#89) who emerged victorious followed by the Lola T70s driven by David Hart (#34) and Toni Seiler (#7)! After a new engine was installed during the night, he made a spectacular comeback finishing just shy of the podium after gaining more than 40 positions. They were surrounded on the podium by Bonamy Grimes in third in #116 and the very quick and consistent victorious pairing Seb Perez and Georges Gamble at the wheel of #77.įor the first time, open cars monopolized the top places at the start of the CER1 race with Max Banks on pole in his #89 McLaren M6B closely followed by the beautiful – and very quick – #4 Porsche 908/03 driven by Henrique Gemperle.Īrmand Mille in the #35 Lola T70 started from the back of the grid due to technical issues in qualifying. ![]() The race was turned on its head with only two minutes to go to the checkered flag! #99 came into the pit lane with a technical problem leaving the track clear for David Verzijlbergen in #41 who bagged second place with his team-mate Lukas Bucher. The latter managed to pull away and ate into the gap separating him from the front-running duo before handing over to his team-mate during the pit stop. Coll and Jürg Aeberhard (#22) were locked in battle for third place. The two drivers had 45 minutes to secure first place before handing over to their respective team-mates. Thorpe and Gamble broke away from the rest of the field and opened up a gap. The start was given early on Sunday afternoon and Thorpe in #99 immediately hit the front followed by George Gamble (#77), Christian Coll (#53), Lukas Bucher (#411) and Bonamy Grimes (#116). In this particular game, #99 driven by James Thorpe and Phil Quaife stood out this weekend in qualifying on Saturday afternoon by clinching pole position for the race. There was ferocious competition among the short-chassis Porsche 991s in which only the drivers can make the difference. Over 280 cars were on hand to take full advantage of the fast sweeping corners on offer from the 3.26-mile circuit. Racers with Peter Auto kicked off their 2023 season last week at Italy’s iconic Mugello Circuit situated north east of Florence.
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