Baku FIA GT: Sebastien Loeb McLaren promoted to podium

The McLaren MP4-12C duo, who drive for Sebastien Loeb Racing, have been moved up from fourth place in the final results after the cars that finished second and third were given 10-second time penalties.

The move means that the Hexis Racing McLaren, shared by Rob Bell and Kevin Estre, and the Charouz Gravity Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG driven by Maximilian Buhk and Alon Day are demoted to third and fourth places respectively.

The penalties were awarded for avoidable contact as a result of an incident at Turn 2 three laps from the end of the race as the trio battled for second position.

Parente had made a move up the inside of the Mercedes at the hairpin and was followed by Estre.

Day made contact with Parente, who then hit Estre.

Estre emerged from the contretemps in second, followed by Day and Parente.

Revised results - 30 laps:

Pos  Drivers                 Team/Car                      Time/Gap
 1.  Ortelli/Vanthoor        WRT Audi                  1h00m39.010s
 2.  Loeb/Parente            Loeb McLaren                   +5.755s
 3.  Bell/Estre              Hexis McLaren                  +11.313s*
 4.  Buhk/Day                Gravity Charouz Mercedes       +15.312s*
 5.  Baumann/Proczyk         Grasser Lamborghini           +31.029s
 6.  Sladecka/Rosina         Grasser Lamborghini           +39.168s
 7.  Campanico/Ammermuller   Novadriver Audi               +39.464s
 8.  Sims/Dusseldorp         Boutsen McLaren               +39.884s
 9.  Soucek/Turvey           MRS McLaren                   +41.553s
10.  Hassid/Beltoise         TDS BMW                       +46.205s
11.  Stippler/Sandstrom      WRT Audi                    +1m03.310s
12.  Winkelhock/Ide          Phoenix Audi                +1m10.829s
13.  Sdanewitsch/Leo         AF Ferrari                  +1m23.156s
14.  Cunha/Stumpf            Rodrive Lamborghini            +2 laps
15.  Mayr-Melnhof/Rast       WRT Audi                       +2 laps
16.  Thomas/Melnikov         MRS McLaren                    +2 laps

* 10s penalty

Retirements:

     Zonta/Jimenez           Brasil BMW                     15 laps
     Tandy/Holzer            Trackspeed Porsche             14 laps
     Vervisch/Vandoorne      Boutsen McLaren                11 laps
     Charouz/Janis           Gravity Charouz Mercedes        7 laps
     Zuber/Parisy            Loeb McLaren                    3 laps
     Webb/Hetherington       Fortec Mercedes                 2 laps
     Khodair/Bueno           Brasil BMW                       1 lap
     Catsburg/Martin         Marc VDS BMW                    0 laps
     Afanasiev/Simonsen      Gravity Charouz Mercedes        0 laps
     Demoustier/Albuquerque  WRT Audi                        0 laps