Winners unhappy with safety car use

Marco Werner and David Brabham brought home their Audi R10 and Aston Martin DBR9 respectively in the final stages of the race, but both were unhappy with the amount of running that was done in the wet with no safety car on track.

Race officials eventually deployed the safety car as the track conditions got worse in the final hour, but they sent the field racing again with 10 minutes to go despite the conditions continuing to deteriorate.

Both Werner and Brabham cruised slowly to the end of the race, but they were unhappy about having to race in such extreme conditions.

"I was very angry that the pace car came out so late, and also that it went back and we went green again," said Werner, who won the race for the third time on Sunday.

"It was not car racing, it was boat racing. I think it was really dangerous, and I was quite happy to bring the car back without any mistakes."

Brabham had been cautious in the wet before the safety car came out, and he had been losing a significant amount of time to the second-place GT1 car of Ron Fellows, who was one lap down but lapping up to 30 seconds faster than the leader.

"I wasn't particularly happy when the pace car didn't come early enough, but also when it went in right at the end," said Brabham. "I was just trying not to put it in the wall by aquaplaning."