Dinamic Porsche wins GT World Challenge at Nurburgring
Dinamic Motorport's Christian Engelhart, Matteo Cairoli and Sven Muller utterly dominated the second GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup round of the season at the Nurburgring for Porsche

The trio started second on the grid following Saturday evening's qualifying but made the most of a chaotic opening lap in which the polesitting GPX Porsche of Dennis Olsen was taken out of contention by Albert Costa's Emil Frey Lamborghini at Turn 1.
Dinamic's closest rivals came in the form of the AKKA ASP Mercedes with Raffaele Marciello, Timur Boguslavskiy and Felipe Fraga on board, but they finished some 14.849 seconds adrift by the flag.
HRT's Maro Engel, Luca Stolz and Vincent Abril completed the podium in third after staving off a late charge by Dries Vanthoor's WRT Audi, who eventually lost out to team-mates Mirko Bortolotti, Kelvin van der Linde and Rolf Ineichen on the last lap.
Engelhart inherited the lead following the chaos at the start - with the ensuing melee also forcing AF Corse's James Calado out at after hitting his fellow Ferrari of SMP's Miguel Molina - and built a healthy margin of over 13 seconds over Boguslavskiy before the first round of pit-stops.
Team-mate Cairoli extended this to nearly half a minute as the second hour came to a close. Two full course yellow periods followed over the next two hours, the first of which was caused by Mathias Lauda spinning his JP Motorsport Mercedes at the chicane, while Rob Collard was taken out of the Pro-Am lead by a wayward Mikkel Pederson at the same corner.
Boguslavskiy momentarily assumed the lead of the race after Engelhart brought the Dinamic Porsche into the pits for a second time in as many laps.
This cost them the lead, but Engelhart quickly made amends at the restart, easily out-accelerating Boguslavskiy's Mercedes on the exit of T1.
While Engelhart pulled away at the front once more, the action was frenetic behind as Boguslavskiy came under increasing pressure from a charging Dorian Boccolacci with two-and-a-half hours to go.
The Sainteloc Audi driver had produced a number of impressive overtakes while at the wheel and forced his way past Boguslavskiy at the chicane.
Having ceded the place back to Boguslavskiy for cutting the corner, Boccolacci immediately resumed his attack on the Russian at Turn 2 but hit the Mercedes and spun.
Benefiting from the chaos in front was Pilet in the GPX Porsche who, after losing ground to both HRT's Luca Stolz and the WRT Audi of Christopher Mies, emerged in second before going off at Turn 6, hitting the barrier.
Vanthoor had looked a solid bet to take up the fight to Dinamic following a fourth FCY - for Frank Bird's Bentley which crashed at the exit of the chicane - but a drivethrough penalty for an unsafe release scuppered the Audi's chances.
Somehow, Vanthoor found a way back into the mix in the closing stages and elbowed his way by FFF Racing's Andrea Caldarelli at Turn 3 to claim fifth, with the latter losing out to an aggressive move by Andy Soucek's K-PAX Bentley.
Silver Cup honours went the way of Garage 59's James Pull, Andrew Watson and Valentin Hasse-Clot while the FFF Lamborghini of Phil Keen, Ricky Collard and Hiroshi Hamaguchi came out on top in a closely fought Pro-Am battle.
GT World Challenge Nurburgring result - 173 laps
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | M.Cairoli, C.Engelhart, S.Muller | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche | 6h01m08.058s |
2 | R.Marciello, T.Boguslavskiy, F.Fraga | Akka ASP Team | Mercedes | 14.849s |
3 | M.Engel, L.Stolz, V.Abril | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes | 17.823s |
4 | M.Bortolotti, R.Ineichen, K.van der Linde | Team WRT | Audi | 32.568s |
5 | D.Vanthoor, C.Mies, C.Weerts | Team WRT | Audi | 32.807s |
6 | A.Buncombe, A.Soucek, J.Pepper | Flying Lizard Motorsports | Bentley | 33.293s |
7 | M.Buhk, F.Schiller, A.Lorandi | GetSpeed Performance | Mercedes | 38.267s |
8 | S.de Silvestro, T.Bernhard, J.Bleekemolen | Rowe Racing | Porsche | 49.012s |
9 | E.Liberati, J.Burdon, A.Imperatori | KCMG | Porsche | 50.211s |
10 | M.Winkelhock, D.Boccolacci, C.Haase | Sainteloc Junior Team | Audi | 1m05.300s |
11 | O.Wilkinson, R.Bell, J.Osborne | Optimum Motorsport | McLaren | 1m06.419s |
12 | A.Watson, J.Pull, V.H.-Clot | Garage 59 | Aston Martin | 1m21.889s |
13 | P.Kujala, A.MacDowall, F.Schandorff | Barwell Motorsport | Lamborghini | 1m22.131s |
14 | M.Molina, D.Rigon, S.Sirotkin | SMP Racing | Ferrari | 1m42.042s |
15 | P-A.Jean, N.Panciatici, S.Morris | CMR | Bentley | 1m47.351s |
16 | D.Lind, A.Caldarelli, M.Mapelli | Orange 1 FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini | 1 Lap |
17 | R.Monti, P.Assenheimer, E.P.Companc | Madpanda Motorsport | Mercedes | 1 Lap |
18 | H.Hamaguchi, E.Erhart, P.Keen | Orange 1 FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini | 1 Lap |
19 | R.Dumas, D.Olsen, T.Preining | GPX Racing | Porsche | 1 Lap |
20 | D.Allemann, R.Bohn, R.Renauer | Precote Herberth Motorsport | Porsche | 1 Lap |
21 | T.Drouet, J.Pla, F.Barthez | Akka ASP Team | Mercedes | 1 Lap |
22 | R.L.Vos, M.Konrad, T.O.-Cole | RAM Racing | Mercedes | 1 Lap |
23 | N.Hommerson, L.Machiels, A.Bertolini | AF Corse | Ferrari | 1 Lap |
24 | F.Hutchison, A.A.Aka, N.Scholl | Attempto Racing | Audi | 1 Lap |
25 | R.Collard, L.Machitski, S.Mitchell | Barwell Motorsport | Lamborghini | 2 Laps |
26 | H.Haupt, S.Afanasiev, J.Camathias | Haupt Racing Team | Mercedes | 2 Laps |
27 | P.Ehret, R.Mastronardi, D.Keilwitz | Rinaldi Racing | Ferrari | 2 Laps |
28 | B.Moulin, J.Cecotto, R.Collard | Orange 1 FFF Racing Team | Lamborghini | 2 Laps |
29 | R.Ricci, S.Tribaudini, R.Umbrarescu | CMR | Bentley | 2 Laps |
30 | N.Bastian, F.Scholze, C.Hook | SPS automotive performance | Mercedes | 2 Laps |
31 | A.Rizzoli, A.De Leener, M.O.Pedersen | Dinamic Motorsport | Porsche | 2 Laps |
32 | C.Froggatt, J.Hui, E.Cheever | Sky Tempesta Racing | Ferrari | 3 Laps |
33 | C.Goodwin, A.West, J.Adam | Garage 59 | Aston Martin | 3 Laps |
34 | J.Haring, D.Konstantinou, A.Renauer | Precote Herberth Motorsport | Porsche | 4 Laps |
35 | P.Krupinski, C.Klien, M.Lauda | JP Motorsport | Mercedes | 4 Laps |
36 | M.Blanchemain, C.Seyler, P-Y.Paque | Sainteloc Junior Team | Audi | 7 Laps |
37 | N.Kjaergaard, E.McKay, F.Bird | Team Parker Racing | Bentley | 8 Laps |
38 | A.Fontana, L.Legeret, B.Hites | Akka ASP Team | Mercedes | 8 Laps |
39 | A.Panis, T.Buret, T.Neubauer | Tech 1 Racing | Lexus | 16 Laps |
- | R.Feller, N.Siedler, M.Grenier | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini | Retirement |
- | M.Campbell, P.Pilet, M.Jaminet | GPX Racing | Porsche | Retirement |
- | K.Ojjeh, G.Vannelet, J.Klingmann | Boutsen Ginion Racing | BMW | Retirement |
- | M.Drudi, K-L.Schramm, F.Vervisch | Attempto Racing | Audi | Retirement |
- | R.Baptista, M.Soulet, J.Gounon | Flying Lizard Motorsports | Bentley | Retirement |
- | R.Breukers, S.Hall, B.Goethe | Team WRT | Audi | Retirement |
- | F.Perera, G.Altoe, A.Costa | Emil Frey Racing | Lamborghini | Retirement |
- | A.P.Guidi, N.Nielsen, J.Calado | SMP Racing | Ferrari | Retirement |
- | D.Werner, J.Andlauer, K.Bachler | Rowe Racing | Porsche | Withdrawn |

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