The GT Open community starred in the RFEA Ceremony
The Champions of the International GT Open received their well-deserved trophies andacclaims during the 2009 Award Ceremony of the Royal Spanish Motorsports Federation(RFEA), which took place in Madrid.
Joël Camathias and Marcel Fässler, the overall champions, looked delighted and cameto the ceremony together with François Trottet and Gilles Françon from TrottetRacing. Gianluca Roda took the runner-up trophies also on behalf of team-mateRichard Lietz, who could not attend because of a flue, while Patrick Pilet took thetrophies for third classified, his team-mate Raymond Narac being unfortunately stuckin France by the snow storm.
Philipp Peter and Michal Broniszewski collected the top honors of the GTS category,with Pierre Del Don and Tiziana Borghi representing Kessel Racing, flanked by the twoVillois Racing drivers, Max Wiser and Lucas Guerrero, who finished second and third inthe championship.
Orlando Redolfi for Autorlando and Chicco Villois for Villois Racing received thetrophies for the winning teams in Super GT and GTS.
The RFEA ceremony was attended by 300 people: Spain’s Secretary of State for SportsJaime Lissavetsky and RFEA President Carlos Gracia presided the event, which countedwith the presence of numerous big names of Spanish motorsports, such as AdriánCampos, Marc Genè, Pedro de la Rosa, Jaime Alguersuari and Andy Soucek.After the ceremony, the International GT Open awardees gathered for a dinner at theCasino de Madrid hosted by Jesús Pareja, CEO of GT Sport, where the excellent spiritreigning in the GT Open was proved once again and everybody showed enthusiasmahead of the 2010 season.
