Turner/Enge win Tourist Trophy

Enge took over the lead of the second round of the FIA GT1 World Championship with five laps to go when the Hexis Aston Martin driven by Thomas Accary took a drive-through penalty for a pitstop infringement.

Enge had looked odds on to take the lead straight after the pitstops and was shaping up to make a pass for the lead when he received news of the leader's penalty.

Turner, who had to give up victory in the 2005 Tourist Trophy courtesy of Aston Martin team orders, said: "I was close to winning this in 2005, so it is great to come back and do it. Tomas and I made mistakes yesterday [in the qualifying race], so it is great to turn it around and claim the victory."

Such was the advantage of the Aston Martin DBR9 around the new Silverstone 'Arena' circuit that Accary and team mate Frederic Makowiecki were able to hang on to second place.

Best of the rest, the Sumo Power GT Nissan driven by Warren Hughes and Jamie Campbell Walter, finished 13 seconds behind in third place.

Fifth place went to the to the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Murcielago driven by Jos Menten and Frank Kechle. GT1 newcomer Kechle held off the advances of Bert Longin in the best of the Hegersport Maseratis driven by Bert Longin in the closing stages.


Pos  Drivers                 Team/Car              Result/Gap
 1.  Turner/Enge             Young Driver Aston    1m01.21.582s
 2.  Makowiecki/Accary       Hexis Aston Martin    +    12.020s
 3.  Hughes/Campbell-Walter  SumoPower Nissan      +    25.135s
 4.  Menten/Kechele          All-Inkl Lamborghini  +    35.419s
 5.  Bobbi/Longin            Triple H Maserati     +    36.010s
 6.  Nygaard/Mucke           Young Driver Aston    +    36.186s
 7.  Margaritis/Heger        Triple H Maserati     +    36.922s
 8.  Bertolini/Bartels       Vitaphone Maserati    +    44.445s
 9.  Leinders/Martin         Marc VDS Ford         +    47.548s
10.  Ara/Nilsson             SRT Nissan            +    52.843s
11.  Palttala/Kuppens        Marc VDS Ford         +    53.925s
12.  Maassen/Armindo         MadCroc Corvette      +  1m00.642s
13.  Piccione/Hirschi        Hexis Aston Martin    +  1m20.934s
14.  Schwager/Pastorelli     Reiter Lamborghini    +  1m23.859s
15.  Gavin/Kuismanen         MadCroc Corvette      +     3 laps
16.  Bernoldi/Ramos          Vitaphone Maserati    +     4 laps

Retirements

     Kox/Haase               Reiter Lamborghini    16 laps
     Wendlinger/Moser        SRT Nissan            16 laps
     Zuber/Hennerici         Phoenix Corvette      15 laps
     Krumm/Dumbreck          SumoPower Nissan      10 laps
     Hezemans/Kumpen         Phoenix Corvette       2 laps
     Bouchut/Basseng         All-Inkl Lamborghini   1 lap