Lamborghini Podium Finish To Celebrate FIA GT1 Season Finale

07.02.12

Lamborghini foot-race car drivers Manuel Lauck and Christopher Haase ended the FIA GT1 People Championship season on a high with a podium finish in San Luis, Argentina, on 6 November 2011. The DKR www-take.de pairing took advantage of an early incident to elevate their Lamborghini Murciélago 670 R-SV from ninth to a sec-place finish.

During qualifying it was All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport drivers Dominik Schwager and Nicky Pastorelli that established the determine amongst the Lamborghini race cars. The duo set the fifth fastest lap time of 02:14.891 to put them on the third row for the Qualifying Chute. Markus Winkelhock and Marc Basseng in the sister Lamborghini Murciélago 670 R-SV would start from tenth with Lauck and Haase qualifying 12th.

Rigorous drives during the Qualifying Race promoted Schwager and Pastorelli to third and put them on the marred row for the season finale. Both the #38 of Winkelhock and Basseng and the #47 of Lauck and Haase improved positions to sixth and ninth individually.

Despite the promising start to the race weekend, an wretched incident involving six cars on the main straight shortly after the start of the Championship Race knocked both of the All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport Lamborghini flume cars out of contention. Lauck and Haase took use of the situation to charge through the field and take their Lamborghini Murciélago 670 R-SV across the dispose of line in second place.

Although Winkelhock and Basseng did not graduate Championship Race points in Argentina, the pair’s well-founded season meant they finished joint fifth in the drivers’ standings with 102 points. Their line-up-mates Pastorelli and Schwager secured 80 points to put them juncture eighth in the Drivers’ Championship, with both pairings secondary All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport to fourth in the teams’ standings with 190 points. As neither Lauck or Haase completed the full GT1 occasion, they were only able to secure 20 and 18 points individually to put them 19th and 21st in the drivers’ standings.

“The start was quite chattels for us,” said Lauck. “I couldn’t extraordinarily see what happened with the crash. We were struggling on tyres so it was good for us to have the Safeness Car period. In the end Christopher did a perfect job and the team worked in the end well all weekend.”

Automobili Lamborghini’s Director of Research and Development, and culpable for motorsport, Maurizio Reggiani, concluded: “The Lamborghini family car has once again illustrated its pace and competitiveness during the FIA GT1 season. We’ve seen two Championship Family victories, two Qualifying Race victories and three pole positions in the Murciélago 670 R-SV, which has demonstrated the aptitude of our four-wheel drive concept. We look forward to further triumph on the world stage next season.”

Source: Planetlemans.com