Turner, Enge double up at Nurburgring

The Young Driver Aston Martin duo led for all but a couple of laps during the pitstop window on a day that no-one else had a look-in.

Turner quickly pulled out a clear lead in his stint, stretching the away by two and a half seconds before the pitstops began, and then Enge rejoined with a 12-second advantage after a quick turnaround by the Fischer-run Young Driver squad.

Turner, whose team-mate crossed the line nine seconds ahead at the end of the championship race, said: "I was mindful of yesterday's start and wanted to get out of Turn 1 in one piece. I kept my head down and tried to make no mistakes and Tomas then went out and did a sterling job."

The best of the Reiter Lamborghini Murcielagos finished second in the hands of Peter Kox and Christopher Haase. Kox ran third behind the Phoenix/Carsport Chevrolet Corvette driven by Marc Hennerici for the first half of the race, but a quicker stop by the Reiter squad vaulted him ahead of the Chevy and secured the duo's first Championship race podium.

Alex Margaritis and Hennerici ended up third, just ahead of the Hexis Aston Martin driven by Clivio Piccione and Jonathan Hirschi.


Pos Driver                     Car                     Time/Gap
 1. Turner/Enge                Aston Martin        1h00m59.709s
 2. Haase/Kox                  Lamborghini               +9.547
 3. Hennerici/Margaritis       Corvette                 +13.018
 4. Piccione/Hirschi           Aston Martin             +14.182
 5. Mucke/Nygaard              Aston Martin             +15.109
 6. Bertolini/Bartels          Maserati                 +16.492
 7. Makowiecki/Clairay         Aston Martin             +19.925
 8. Campbell-Walter/Hughes     Nissan                   +24.834
 9. Pier Guidi/Longin          Maserati                 +25.098
10. Wendlinger/Moser           Nissan                   +40.434
11. Leinders/Martin            Ford                     +45.444
12. Ramos/Bernoldi             Maserati                 +47.591
13. Westbrook/Mutsch           Ford                     +48.833
14. Zonta/Kechele              Lamborghini              +50.806
15. Krumm/Dumbreck             Nissan                   +56.250
16. Prost/Jani                 Ford                     +57.773
17. Palttala/Kuppens           Ford                   +1:05.491
18. Maassen/Menten             Corvette               +1:06.014
19. Basseng/Jager              Lamborghini            +1:06.505
20. Müller/Heger               Maserati               +1:07.079
21. Ara/Nilsson                Nissan                 +1:51.668

Retirements

    Pastorelli/Schwager        Lamborghini              26 laps
    Salo/Kuismanen             Corvette                 25 laps