ELMS @ 4 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps 2021: The LM GTE in the race
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Francois Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Alessio Rovera with their #88 AF Corse took victory in the 4 Hours of Spa GTE class, 25 seconds ahead of the #80 Iron Lynx trio Miguel Molina, Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni.
Iron Lynx secured a double podium with Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey taking third.
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Emmanuel Collard took the lead from Sarah Bovy’s #83 with an hour and 40 minutes to go securing the #88 AF Corse’s team (with Francois Perrodo and Alessio Rovera) their second victory of the season.
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Championship leading #80 Iron Lynx Ferrari squad with Miguel Molina, Rino Mastronardi and Matteo Cressoni had a very regular race keeping their Ferrari mostly between the second and the fourth place. They ended second of the LM GTE class.
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First podium this season for the Iron Dames with their #83 Iron Lynx machine. Despite starting from the last position, Michelle Gatting made a serious “remontada” to end her stint brilliantly in P3. Bronze driver Sarah Bovy took over and became leader of the class for many laps until the experienced Emmanuel Collard (#88 AF Corse Ferrari) passed her at T1. After a new FCY and some more pitstops, Bovy dropped to fourth. With a bit more than one hour to go, Bovy and Laser (#93 Proton Competition Porsche) started a talented demonstration with Laser trying to pass Bovy and succeeding in T19 but then Bovy reconquered the place in T1 before Laser took over again in T18 on the next lap.
Rahel Frey completed the successful race of the Dames’ trio by closing the gap thanks to a last FCY and smartly taking over Laser in the final minutes restart of the race to cross the checkered flag in P3.
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Despite starting from P1 of the LM GTE class #93 Proton Competition Porsche of Michael Fassbender, Felipe Laser and Richard Lietz ended fourth, after Laser lost P3 in the last minutes to Rahel Frey driving Ferrari #83.
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To crown Iron Lynx's success at Francorchamps this weekend, the #60 Ferrari of Claudio Schiavoni, Giorgio Sernagiottoand, Paolo Ruberti finished fifth.
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JMW Motorsport #66 Ferrari driven by J. Fannin, A. Fontana and R. Sales ended sixth, one lap behind the winners of the class.
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Matt Campbell handed over his #77 Proton Competition Porsche to Christian Ried in P1. Ried lost the lead on lap 38 being passed by #88 Ferrari, which was driven by François Perrodo. Mac Neil took over from Ried in P2 but was demoted to third when he was passed by the #80 Ferrari of Matteo Cressoni at Les Combes. Together with Richard Lietz, the team ended in P7 after being served a drive through penalty for Mac Neil abusing track limits.
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J. Hartshorne, R. Gunn and O. Hancock’s #95 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage AMR ended 8th despite battling on the forefront during the first hour (Hancock was first until lap 9 and handed over to Hartshorne in P2).
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