Top-five placing for Phoenix Racing FIA GT3: At the season opener of the FIA GT3 European Championship at Silverstone (Great Britain) Team Sainteloc-Phoenix Racing clinched championship points twice. The team’s Belgian driver pairing Stéphane Lemeret and Greg Franchi finished both the first and second race in eighth place. The German Michael Ammermüller and his Brazilian partner Paolo Bonifacio from Team Rosberg finished Saturday’s race in the points as well by taking tenth place. With a tenth-place finish on Sunday, the Black Falcon duo Johannes Stuck and Sean Paul Breslin took home one championship point.Top-five placing for Phoenix RacingGT Open:The German Audi customer team Phoenix Racing with drivers Marcel Tiemann and Jim Matthews took fifth place in the GTS class in Sunday’s race in the International GT Open at the Nürburgring. At the home round of the team based in the Eifel region the German-American pairing saw the checkered flag in sixth place on Saturday.News bitsThe two Audi "factory" drivers Mattias Ekström and Martin Tomczyk were guests at a cooking class hosted by celebrity chef Alfons Schuhbeck on Tuesday... Markus Winkelhock will contest the Nürburgring 24 Hours in an Audi R8 LMS entered by Team Phoenix Racing.Results and pointsSilverstone (GB), May 1, FIA GT3 European Championship round 11 Cunill/Bergmeister (Porsche) 28 laps in 1h 00m 52.148s2 Seiler/Lunardi (Corvette) + 4.260s3 Geipel/Lohr (Lamborghini) + 11.573s4 Petrobelli/Alessi (Ferrari) + 11.850s5 Osborne/Vannelet (Porsche) + 13.772s…8 Lemeret/Franchi (Audi R8 LMS) + 31.920s10 Bonifacio/Ammermüller (Audi R8 LMS) + 32.819s15 Breslin/Stuck (Audi R8 LMS) + 51.502s16 Brown/Bell (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 05.421s17 Hirschi/Lorgere-Roux (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 27.595s20 Patterson/Guasch (Audi R8 LMS) - 1 lap21 Breslin/Mehta (Audi R8 LMS) - 2 lapsSilverstone (GB), May 2, FIA GT3 European Championship round 21 Keilwitz/Hohenadel (Corvette) 28 laps in 1h 01m 40.714s2 Rodrigues/Makowiecki (Aston Martin) + 8.266s3 Cunill/Bergmeister (Porsche) + 12.235s4 Geipel/Lohr (Lamborghini) + 18.078s5 Walter/Hürtgen (BMW) + 18.522s…8 Lemeret/Franchi (Audi R8 LMS) + 35.126s10 Breslin/Stuck (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 04.284s12 Bonifacio/Ammermüller (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 22.669s14 Patterson/Guasch (Audi R8 LMS) + 2m 02.799s15 Brown/Bell (Audi R8 LMS) - 1 lap20 Hirschi/Lorgere-Roux (Audi R8 LMS) - 1 lap21 Heyer/Seidlitz (Audi R8 LMS) - 2 laps22 Breslin/Mehta (Audi R8 LMS) - 2 laps
Standings after 2 of 12 rounds: 1 Bergmeister and Cunill, each 40 points; 2 Lohr and Geipel, each 27; 3 Keilwitz and Hohenadel, each 24; 4 Seiler, Rodrigues, Lunardi and Makowiecki, each 18; 5 Sandström and Söderlund, each 12; 8 Lemeret, Franchi, Nygaard and Eskelinen, each 8; 11 Ammermüller, Bonifacio, Stuck and Breslin, each 1.Next races: Brno (CZ), May 22/23Nürburgring (D), May 1, International GT Open round 3 (GTS class)1 Dayraut/Ortelli (Ferrari) 34 laps in 1h 11m 43.890s 2 Couceiro/Frezza (Ferrari) + 14.626s3 Lancelotti/Lancieri (Aston Martin) + 17.840s4 Scheier/Petit (Ferrari) + 18.013s5 Deverikos/Gruber (Porsche) + 18.892s6 Matthews/Tiemann (Audi R8 LMS) + 40.351s…8 Dijkstra/van der Zwaan (Audi R8 LMS) - 1 lapNürburgring (D), May 2, International GT Open round 4 (GTS class)1 Dayraut/Ortelli (Ferrari) 24 laps in 51m 51.282s2 Petit/Scheier (Ferrari) + 0.722s3 Deverikos/Gruber (Porsche) + 4.790s4 Lancelotti/Lancieri (Aston Martin) + 15.465s5 Matthews/Tiemann (Audi R8 LMS) + 1m 02.879sStandings after 4 of 16 rounds: 1 Dayraut and Ortelli, each 26 points; 3 Gruber and Deverikos, each 19; 5 Frezza and Couceiro, each 16; 13 Tiemann, Matthews, Cecatto and Salucci, each 13.Next races: Imola (I), May 22/23
