Enge, Turner dominate at Nurburgring

Enge briefly dropped to third at the start after being tapped into a half-spin, but the Czech driver was quickly back to second and needed less than three laps to take the lead from Alex Margaritis in the Phoenix/Carsport Chevrolet.

Such was the advantage of the best of the Aston Martins at the Nurburgring that Enge was able to pull out a four-second lead before the pitstop window opened in the middle of the one-hour race.

Turner resumed with a similar gap over the Phoenix/Carsport car, now driven by Marc Hennerici, only to return to the pits three laps later for wet tyres when it started to rain. The Briton retook the lead with six laps to go when he passed Andrea Bertolini in the best of the Vitaphone Maseratis, which was still on slick tyres.

"It was one of those races where you had to keep an eye on your mirrors and just try to stay on the track," said Turner.

Margaritis and Hennerici ended up second, just over 10s behind the winning Aston and a similar margin ahead of the third-placed Reiter Lamborghini Murcielago driven by Christophe Haase and Peter Kox. The Bertolini Maserati, which was started by Michael Bartels, faded to 10th at the finish.

Pos  Drivers                 Car               Time/Gap
 1.  Turner/Enge             Aston Martin  1h00m21.518s
 2.  Hennerici/Margaritis    Corvette         + 10.356s
 3.  Kox/Haase               Lamborghini      + 20.342s
 4.  Zonta/Kechele           Lamborghini      + 32.077s
 5.  Piccione/Hirschi        Aston Martin     + 36.317s
 6.  Mutsch/Westbrook        Ford             + 47.167s
 7.  Ramos/Bernoldi          Maserati         + 52.861s
 8.  Prost/Jani              Ford             + 58.076s
 9.  Nygaard/Mucke           Aston Martin     + 58.793s
10.  Bertolini/Bartels       Maserati       + 1m15.659s
11.  Schwager/Pastorelli     Lamborghini    + 1m19.473s
12.  Kuppens/Palttala        Ford           + 1m21.675s
13.  Heger/Muller            Maserati       + 1m41.826s
14.  Wendlinger/Moser        Nissan         + 1m51.267s
15.  Salo/Kuismanen          Corvette       + 1m51.801s
16.  Hughes/Campbell-Walter  Nissan         + 1m55.947s
17.  Ara/Nilsson             Nissan             + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Maassen/Menten          Corvette      24 laps
     Martin/Leinders         Ford          5 laps
     Krumm/Dumbreck          Nissan        1 lap
     Longin/Pier Guidi       Maserati      0 laps
     Makowiecki/Clairay      Aston Martin  0 laps
     Basseng/Jager           Lamborghini   0 laps