Aldo Festante (Ombra Racing Porsche) found again the way to victory in Race 2 at the Paul Ricard to net his third success of the season. The Italian, despite posting the pole, had to let leadership in the first stint to Nico Verdonck, in the ProSport Racing Aston Martin shared with Rodrigue Gillion, but mastered the second part of the race to beat the Team Virage Aston Martin of Robert Hefler and Philippe Valenza, credited once again of a very good race, and yesterday’s winners Manel Cerqueda-Dani Díaz Varela (Baporo Motorsport Audi).

The Andorran-Spanish duo wins (and leads) in Am, ahead the Porsche cars of their team mate Joan Font  and of Mario Cordoni (GDL Racing).

Associated this weekend to Bas Schouten, Niki Leutwiler took 4 ^th with the PZ Oberer Zürichsee by TFT Porsche, but his consistency puts him on top of the Pro-Am standings and, more importantly, of the overall standings, four points ahead of Festante.

Aldo Festante (Ombra Racing Porsche) back to winning path The Italian nets his third success of the season in entertaining Race 2 at Ricard Philippe Valenza-Robert Hefler excellent second in the Team Virage Aston Martin Cerqueda-Varela (Baporo Motorsport Audi) win and take lead in Am Niki Leutwiler (PZ Ob. Zürichsee Porsche) is the new standings leader LAldo Festante (Ombra Racing Porsche) found again the way to victory in Race 2 at the Paul Ricard to net his third success of the season. The Italian, despite posting the pole, had to let leadership in the first stint to Nico Verdonck, in the ProSport Racing Aston Martin shared with Rodrigue Gillion, but mastered the second part of the race to beat the Team Virage Aston Martin of Robert Hefler and Philippe Valenza, credited once again of a very good race, and yesterday’s winners Manel Cerqueda-Dani Díaz Varela (Baporo Motorsport Audi). The Andorran-Spanish duo wins (and leads) in Am, ahead the Porsche cars of their team mate Joan Font and of Mario Cordoni (GDL Racing). Associated this weekend to Bas Schouten, Niki Leutwiler took 4th with the PZ Oberer Zürichsee by TFT Porsche, but his consistency puts him on top of the Pro-Am standings and, more importantly, of the overall standings, four points ahead of Festante. THE RACE - At the start, Nico Verdonck is quickest from first row, passing the poleman Festante, while Schouen takes P3 ahead of Díaz-Varela, Valenza and Font. Still in first lap, Schouten will also pass Festante, becoming second. The Aston builds a small gap of 2 seconds in the initial laps with Schouten having to concede second position to Festante in lap 5. Valenza is fourth ahead of the two Baporo cars of DíazVarela and Font in ful fight. Silva makes contact with Martín sending him into a spin. The gaps remain very close with the first six covered by 12 seconds after 10 laps, one before the opening of the driver changes. The leaders will pit in lap 14, and the second part of the race sees Festante leading by 6 seconds over Heler and 13 on Leutwiler, closely followed by font, with Cerqueda and Gillion further away. The last laps see the gap brtween Festante and Hefler grow stedily, while Cerqueda recovers on Leutwiler and passes him for third in lap 22. STANDINGS AFTER ROUND 4 OF 10 Overall: 1.Leutwiler, 44 points; 2. Festante, 30; 3. Cerqueda-Díaz Varela, 38; 4. Font, 31; 5. Beltoise, 24; 6. HeflerValenza, 22 ; etc Pro-Am: 1. Leutwiler, 17 p.; 2. Festante, 14 ; 3. Valenza-Hefler, 10 ; 4. Beltoise, 9; 5. Schouten, 8 ; et Am: 1. Diaz Varela-Cerqueda, 29 p.; 2. Font, 24; 3. Silva-Coimbra, 16; 4. Cordoni, 9 ; 5. Estraguès, 8; etc. Teams: 1. Baporo Motorsport, 41 p.; 2. PZ Ob. Zürichsee by TFT, 28; 3. Ombra Racing, 26; 4. Team Virage, 13; 5. NM Racing, 10; etc The 2020 Calendar 09 August: Hungaroring (H) 23 August: Circuit Paul Ricard (F) 27 September: Monza (I) 18 October: Spa-Francorchamps (B) 01 November: Barcelona-Catalunya (E)