FIA European GT3 Championship - The Maserati GranSport Lights come back in Race 1

Cars: - n° 76: Maserati GranSport Light chassis n° 23401 Drivers: Roberto Sperati (I) - Andrea Palma (I) - N° 78: Maserati GranSport Light chassis n° 23399 Drivers: Lorenzo Casè (I) - Gianni Giudici (I)

Race 1 of the FIA GT European Championship was run in driving rain. Taking part in the third round are two Maserati GranSports bearing the colours of AF Corse with Roberto Sperati-Andrea Palma and Lorenzo Casè-Gianni Giudici at the wheel. Starting from sixteenth and twenty-third, they closed out 13th and 16th in a race interrupted by the red flag that was shown four minutes from the end. The flag was flown following a crash involving Alexander-Needel's Aston Martin. Race 2 will be held tomorrow, Saturday 29 July, at 11.55.

Race 1: 1. Bouvy-Bornhauser (Dodge Viper), 16 laps in 50'35"662; 2. Machitski-Cocker (Aston Martin DBRS9) + 3"468; 3. Deverikos-Edwarts (Porsche 997 GT3) + 6"509 13. Sperati-Palma (Maserati GranSport Light) + 32"249 16. Casè-Giudici (Maserati GranSport Light) + 36"770