The International GT Open took the track at the Hungaroring this Friday for the opening of the fourth round of the season. Perfect conditions, with sunny, mild and breezy weather welcomed the 27 cars in action.
The fastest car of the day was the Motopark Mercedes #71, with Christian Mansell and Maxi Götz posting a time of 1.43.455 in the second session, the fastest for almost all cars. The duo is on a mission to try to reconquer the lead in the standings. They beat the second-fastest car, the Pro-Am Porsche of Fach Auto Tech entrusted to Alexander Fach and Alex Schwarzer by Os080.
Another Porsche and another Mercedes completed the top four, with the 911 by ZRS Motorsport of Pietro Armanni-Alex Fontana 0s478 behind, and the AMG of Dexter Müller-Yannick Mettler, defending the colours of CBRX by SPS very close behind (+0s486).
Fifth-fastest of the day was the car topping the standings in session 1 (1.44.040)), the AF Corse Ferrari of Laurent De Meeus-Vincent Abril, 0s586 behind. Another 296 GT3, the Olimp Racing of Marcin Jedlinski-Karol Basz took sixth, 0s591.
Championship leaders Tom Emson-Tom Lebbon (Elite Motorsport Ferrari) were ninth-fastest, 0s852 from the top.
The Prancing Horse also topped the Am class with the AF Corse #16 of Marcelo Hahn-Galid Osman (1.44.503), who took an excellent 11th overall. Adrian Lewandowski (Baron Motorsport) was fastest in the Bronze test, with a lap time of 1.43.818.
The only incident worth noting took place at the end of the morning session, when Andrey Borodin lost the Greystone GT McLaren at the exit of turn 9, hitting the barriers and rolling, with no consequences for the driver, but forcing the Russian and Ollie Webb to continue the weekend in the team’s spare car.
