Pitting fifteen seconds longer when Tutumlu took over the car from Anttila cost him a chance of podium finish, the duo from Leipert Motorsport brought home 8th place during Saturday´s race in the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo. Today Tutumlu will start ninth on the grid. 

Isaac Tutumlu was not able to meet his goal at Paul Ricard in Race 1 of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo.The Leipert Motorsport driver paired with team-mate Jesse Anttila for the first time,  delivered a brilliant performance in qualifying, as he has set 6th quickest time with a lap of 2:07.162, equaling pace of experienced drivers such as Daniel Zampieri, Patrick Kujala, Edoardo Libertato and Sergio Campana.

Anttila made the opening stint and after the first lap the finnish driver was 7th. Shortly after, Anttila avoided a collision with Alberto di Folco, who spun in front of him but dropped to 8th place. The safety car was deployed after 13 minutes and, when green flags waved again, the pit stop window for driver change opened. When Anttila headed into pit lane, there were problems  fastening the seat belt, costing 15 additional seconds. Tutumlu rejoined 13th and despite setting competitive lap times could not improve on 8th place.

“I am not happy about our result today. We lost loads of time during our pit stop and it cost our chances of fighting for a podium finish. My lap times were quite competitive at the end, but I couldn´t regain lost ground”, Tutumlu explains, stressing that “tomorrow I will make the opening stint, 9th on the grid as Jesse qualified the car like that. It will be another tough race, because yesterday we were a PAM team and the organization today moved into PRO class. Otherwise we would have finished 2nd today. But we have to give our best tomorrow”.

Sunday´s race will get underway at 10.50.