Blancpain GT Series - RECAP

It's been a week end far from boring for the Blancpain GT Series circus, busy on the Slovakia Ring for the fourth appointment in calendar in the Sprint Series.

The Qualifying Race held on Saturday started with a shocking accident that saw Enge's Lamborghini rolling over and over in the very first lap of the race. Fortunately the drivers was fine but that was the end of the week end for the Reiter Engineering Team and for the duo Enge-Rosina. First Red Flag of the race to clean up the mess.
At the restart is the weather that takes control, after a couple of laps with zero visibility, the track started to be more drivable, just in time to give some confidence to the driver and then pouring rain again, couple of spins here and there, some car wandering around the soaked grass siding the circuit: safety car. The pit is open now and many take the chance to stop.  Not Winkelhock that practically gives up the lead because the race is stoppe for the second time after a couple of laps under safety car and his team will have to change driver on the third stint of the race.
The last 25 minutes are still enough to set aside another couple surprises, mainly igned Audi, with the at that point leader of the race Ide spinning at 6 minutes to the end and Abril that, after a very catchy come back until P4, goes wide in the last lap, ending in sixth position.
Is however another Audi to see the checkered flag first, with the duo Ramos-Vanthoor grabbing another victory and 8 points for the standing.

The main race takes place on a dry Sunday, but it doesn't take more than one turn for the drama to begin. Ramos and Proczyk start from the front line but none of them is fast, the group is packing on the way to turn 1 and when Ramos tries to gain some positions back, he gets on the brakes way too late and from the inside of the turn takes out in the sand a copious group of contenders upon himself.
The rest of the race is an engaging challenge between Bmw, Audi and Mercedes that sees, lastly, the two Bmw of Jager-Baumann, first win of the season, and Bueno-Jimenez, taking advantage of a better set-up for a dry race.

At the end of the two races we have:

Qualifying Race:

1. Ramos-Vanthoor   Audi                                         8pt.
2. Proczyk-Bleekemolen  Lamborghini                       6pt.
3. Verdonck-Gotz  Mercedes                                    4pt.

Main Race

1. Jager-Baumann   Bmw                                         25pt.
2. Bueno-Jimenez   Bmw                                         18pt.
3. Ide-Rast     Audi                                                  15pt.