Second place and standings leadership in the PRO class for Breukers and Jefferies
Second success for Lewandowski and Myszkowski with VS Racing in the AM class
Briché and Navarro win in the PRO-AM category with MN Development
Many changes in the leading positions and some unexpected events spiced up the second of the two races of the inaugural weekend of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe at Monza.
After finishing in third position in Race 1, the Italian-Canadian crew from Antonelli Motorsport, Loris Spinelli and debutant Mikaël Grenier, won the second race of the season.
Vito Postiglione took over the wheel of the car of Imperiale Racing from Jonathan Cecotto making his debut in the one-make series. The young Venezuelan was perfect during his driving stint. Then an unexpected problem during the pit stop forced Postiglione to begin a comeback drive in the final stages of the race to take fourth place overall.
Rik Breukers and Axcil Jefferies climbed the podium for the second time. On Saturday, the two drivers opened the 2017 season with a victory in Race 1 with the car of GDL Racing, ahead of the duo of VS Racing formed by the Brazilian Raphael Abbate and the Japanese Yuki Nemoto.
Johnny Cecotto Jr and Milos Pavlovic also had a nice race and finished in fifth position, with the Huracán of the team Bonaldi Motorsport. A protagonist of the early stages of the race was also the 22-year-old Austrian rookie Luca Rettenbacher, who, after setting the second fastest time in qualifying, maintained his position during the first laps, before getting out of track at the Ascari variant. The duo of Leipert Motorsport, formed by Jan Kisiel and Morgan Haber, obtained good results again and finished sixth overall, ahead of the car of Artline Team Georgia driven by Sergey Afanasiev and Gerhard Tweraser.
The French drivers Jean-Laurent Navarro and Julien Briché (MN Development) finished right behind them and after starting from the eleventh row, they did an excellent comeback enabling them to finish in eighth position and to win in the PRO-AM category.
In the AM class, the Poles Andrej Lewandowski and Teodor Myszkowski managed to score two wins out of two races with VS Racing, while the Greek Antonios Vossos was the winner in the Lamborghini Cup with the team Target Racing.
The second of the six double rounds on the calendar is scheduled on the weekend of May 13-14 at Silverstone.
DRIVERS’ QUOTES
Loris Spinelli/Antonelli Motorsport (1st overall and in the PRO class): "Today, we were more ready to fight. My teammate, Grenier, did an excellent start and an amazing driving stint. When I got into the car after the pit-stop, I overtook Breukers and managed to keep him behind until the end".
Julien Briché/MN Development (1st in the PRO-AM class): "My team and my teammate were perfect. We started in 22nd position but did an outstanding comeback, thus scoring a class win and finishing eighth overall".
Teodor Myszkowski/VS Racing (1st in the AM class): "I made a few mistakes during qualifying, therefore I was forced to push from the start. I even challenged Konopka. It was really a hard fought race".
Antonios Vossos/Target Racing (1.st in the Lamborghini Cup): "I’m really happy. Scoring a class victory in my first race weekend was the best result I could aim at".
