07 Nov 2011
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Francesco Pastorelli and Yelmer Buurman in the Exim Bank Team China Corvette No.11 completed the double by winning the Championship Race in an incident-filled finale to the 2011 season in San Luis.
The victory for the GT1 debutants was the second of the weekend after taking the honours in the Qualifying Race the previous day.
Second was the DKR www-discount.de Lamborghini No.47 of Manuel Lauck and Christopher Haase and third were Clivio Piccione and Stef Duseldorp in the Hexis Aston Martin No.3.
The 15 points for the French squad enabled them to secure the 2011 teams' championship with 235 points in a tense battle which went to the wire. Second overall was the JRM Nissan team on 232 points and third was Young Driver Aston Martin on 231.
A six-car pile-up on the main straight soon after the lights went green claimed the JRM Nissan GT-R No.23 of the drivers' championship winners Lucas Luhr and Michael Krumm.
Both All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport Lamborghinis, the No.21 Sumo Power GT Nissan GT-R of David Brabham were also casualties.
The No.7 Young Driver Aston Martin of Alex Muller and the Sumo Power Nissan GT-R No.20 of Enrique Bernoldi were also involved but were able to continue.
The Aston actually led the race after the incident but was deemed to have overtaken under the Safety Car procedures and was handed a drive-through penalty.
Richard Westbrook and Peter Dumbreck in the JRM Racing No.22 Nissan GT-R which had assumed the lead with 15 minutes remaining were given a similar penalty and finished eighth thus denying the Nissan squad of adding the teams' championship to the drivers' title won by Krumm and Luhr for second place in the Qualifying Race on Saturday.
In the final drivers' standings, Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke finished second (120 points) despite not making the start line due to extensive damage to the No.7 Young Driver Aston Martin in the Qualifying Race.
Third went to Christian Hohenadel and Andrea Piccini in the Hexis Aston Martin No.4 with 113 points.
