FIA-GT: Brands Hatch Porsche report

• harald.bloche@gmd.de (Harald Bloche)
• MNI - Motorsport News International
• Fri Sep 13 05:57:45 EDT 1996

Brands Hatch. The brand new Porsche 911 GT1 clinched a convincing second
victory in only its second outing at the  International Four Hours Race
at Brands Hatch. After a cautios start Porsche worksdriver, Hans-Joachim
Stuck had taken over the lead in the third of 166 laps. Until the finish
Stuck and his team mate Thierry Boutsen from Belgium opened a gap of more
than one lap to the fastest competitors.

"The GT1 ran like a clockwork,we had no problem at all apart from lapping
a lot of other cars. The whole team did an absolutely perfect job." said
a delighted Hans-Joachim Stuck after the race.

The new Porsche 911 GT1, which had already impressively won the 24 Hours
Race at Le Mans, turned out to be a winner at its premiere in the Inter-
national GT Challange "BPR" as well: high carat competitors like Ferrari,
McLaren-BMW, Jaguar, Chevrolet, Crysler and Lotus had no chance to take
the lead from the racing car from the Porsche R&D Center at Weissach,
throughout the race.

Top 10 race results:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pos     Drivers                 Nat     Car                      Laps
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1     *Stuck/Boutsen           D/B     Porsche 911 GT1           166
 2      Wallace/Grouillard      GB/F    BMW-McLaren F1 GTR       -1
 3      Owen-Jones/Raphanel     GB/F    BMW-McLaren F1 GTR       -2
 4      Nielsen/Bscher          DK/D    BMW-McLaren F1 GTR       -2
 5      Olofsson/Della Noce     S/I     Ferrari F40              -5
 6      Konrad/Wollek/Ortelli   A/F/F   Porsche 911 GT2 (1stGT2) -8
 7      Euser/Erdos/de Lesseps  NL/NL/F Marcos LM600             -8
 8      Beretta/Bell            F/GB    Viper GTS-R              -10
 9      Eichmann/Ruch/Kelleners CH/D/D  Porsche 911 GT2          -10
10      Byrner/calderari        CH/CH   Porsche 911 GT2          -10

       *Guest start for testing, no points.


Top 6 standings after 8 of 11 races:

Pos     Team                    Drivers                 Pts
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1      Gulf Racing/GTC         Bellm/Weaver            164
 2      West Competition        Thomas Bscher           132
 3      Rook Racing             Eichmann/Ruch           131
 4      Enna Igol               Olofsson/Della Noce     111
 5      Gulf Racing/GTC         Owen-Jones/Raphanel     106
        Harrods Racing          Wallace/Grouillard      106