Kox’s Lambo storms sunny free practice
It was a perfect late summer day in Barcelona, with perfect conditions for free practice and no incidents to report. The Reiter-prepared Lamborghini FLII of Peter Kox and Max Völker was the fastest car of the day, with a time of 1.48.781 signed in the morning session. It preceded the three fastest cars of session 2, which were the SMP Ferrari of Zampieri-Mavlanov (the first among title contenders), the SRT Corvette of Tutumlu-Hamilton and the V8 Corvette of Soulet-Sijthoff, all within 3 to 5 tenths from the top.
The Sofrev Ferrari of Ricci-Policand was second-fastest in the morning (5th in the combined), preceding two other new entries, the Novadriver Audi of Monje-Hamprecht and the Balfe Ferrari of Balfe-Keen.
Squeezed in-between (6th in the combined) was the V8 Corvette of championship leaders Pastorelli-Ramos, just ahead of the other title bidders, Montermini-Schirò (Villorba Ferrari), who both focused on set-up work. Among the two GTS title contenders, clear advantage for the SMP Ferrari of Aicart on the points leader Roda, slowed by a brakes problem on his AF Ferrari. Only significant no show is the Sport&You Mercedes, which could not be repaired on time after last weekend’s accident in Monza.
