This weekend will see the third round of the ELMS heading to Red Bull Ring (AUT).
On the beautiful landscape of Karintië the Kox entered Lamborghini shall try to keep it's successful streak after their 2 victories in Zolder in the GT Sprint Series.
In the second round, the first one for the Lamborghini, at Imola Pronk and Kox were heading for a podium result which was taken away fiercely by not letting the car out of the pit lane in the last lap, resulting in a dnf.
Last weekend Peter returned to the GT Open series who had their . round at Silverstone.
Together with Fabian Hampbrecht under the entry of Team Leipert Motorsport Peter started the weekend on Thursday with 2 hours of free practice to acclimatize to the Dunlop tyres which they had to use for this event.
After free practice each driver has a 20 minutes qualifying session which determines the start position for respectively race 1(70min) and race 2(50min).
Fabian was to qualify first and put the car on P6, Peter on P2.
The race on Saturday started on soaring hot conditions and Fabian was troubled by a Porsche in front of him who was loosing cooling liquid, this costing him some places in the opening lap.
In the second lap he then was hit by a Ferrari and broke as well as the front as rear suspension, which meant that the race was over for the Leipert Lamborghini.
Peter started the 50minute race on Sunday and hold on to that position in the opening lap, but was unable to keep with the Porsche in front of him.
At the stop the Lamborghini was still in 2nd place, however lost this during the driver change. However on the outlap the Mercedes in front made a mistake and Fabian quickly retained the position.
He then rapidly caught the leading Porsche, but under estimate the blocking of the driver which enabled the Mercedes to pass him and the Porsche in the same lap.
Having a fresh set of tyres the Mercedes was no match for Fabian and although he could keep up with the Merc on pace the gap was there and that was it.
The Leipert Lamborghini took a well deserved second place and first podium in this series.
The Kox Racing Lamborghini was entered at last weekend GT Sprint Series at Zolder in Belgium.
After a few weeks ago, were Peter also took the win in the FIA GT Series, again he climbed on the top step of the podium,this time it was his fellow countryman Nico Pronk who was sharing the spoils with him!
The format of the GT Sprint is also 2 races, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday with a compulsory pits stop between 25-35 minutes.
At Zolder the GT's raced together with the highly popular Dutch Super Car Challenge, and although the rules and regulations are not the same the two fitted well together.
Nico qualified on P5 for the GT series and P12 overall, Peter was on pole for his start on Sunday and third overall on the grid.
At the start Nico maintained his position and could post consistent lap times and stayed in touch with the competition.
After the stop Peter fought his way up to P2 and after a drive through penalty of the leading Audi of Vanthoor Peter inherited the lead and stayed up front, winning it's first race for Kox Racing.
Laurens Vanthoor finished second, exactly the same result as in the FIA GT Series!
