Marcel Fässler and Jean-Denis Deletraz drove their Phoenix Carsport Corvette C5R to victory on the narrow city streets of Bucharest, in the first one-hour Championship race in FIA GT Championship history.

Having claimed pole position during yesterday’s qualifying race, Fässler pulled away from his team-mate Hezemans, handing the car over to Deletraz with a healthy margin to take their first win of the season after three pole positions.

Gollin, taking over their Corvette, caught up and maintained pressure on the leading GMAC-liveried Phoenix Carsport car, but his race ended prematurely after a brush with the ever-present walls. This left the Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 cars, strong on the city circuit despite their penalty weight, to take the two remaining podium positions, strengthening their lead in the Teams and Drivers classifications – but further increasing their weight for Brno. Australian based Dane Alan Simonsen finished fifth in the Aston Martin he shared with Philipp Peters.

Alan Simonsen's Aston Martin DBR9 ©DPPI FIA GT Media

In GT2, CR Scuderia confirmed yesterday’s qualifying race by taking the team’s first FIA GT victory, with Andrew Kirkaldy and Rob Bell crossing the line 0.3 ahead of the AF Corse Ferrari.  Kirkaldy caught and overtook Bruni in the closing stages, with Bruni reporting brake problems. Bruni and Vilander took second in both races, to maintain their championship lead. Third was the Prospeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3 RSR of Westbrook and Collard.

:with FIA GT media