With a squeaky clean lights-to-flag victory, Swen Dolenc secured his second successive win in the Amateur class. The Porsche driver from the FACH AUTO TECH team had a clear lead in the first half of the race ahead of Kristian Poulsen (Young Driver AMR Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3) and the two-time Amateur champion Toni Seiler (Callaway Competition Corvette Z06.R GT3).
After Dolenc handed the cockpit over to team mate Martin Ragginger, the Austrian maintained the lead of the white and red Porsche 911 GT3 R to ensure Dolenc took an unchallenged win to lead the Amateur class. "I was able to set a good pace from the start, but then got a little out of rhythm," Dolenc said after the race. "Two wins in three races is great, a big thanks to the team for excellent preparation of the car."
There was bad luck in the first half of the race for the second placed driver Kristian Poulsen. Shortly before the driver change to Christoffer Nygaard, the Dane collided with the BMW ALPINA of the LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler, which damaged the front splitter of the Aston Martin. Poulsen and Nygaard decided to not continue the race for safety reasons, which promoted Frank Kechele in his Corvette for the second half of the race and giving Toni Seiler second place. "I was unfortunate to have not passed some of our opponents quickly, otherwise we might have been able to take the victory as Frank was very fast over the second half of the race," said Toni Seiler.
The fight for the last podium place between Porsche of René Bordeaux (Team GT3 Kasko), Carsten Tilke's Audi R8 LMS ultra (Prosperia uhc speed) and Marc A. Hayek's Lamborghini Gallardo LP600+ (Reiter Enginering) was exciting right until the very end. Christian Abt, Tilke's team mate, passed the Team GT3 Kasko Porsche shortly before the end of the race and secured the son of the racetrack architect Hermann Tilke a podium finish. Peter Kox, team colleague of Hayek, finished in fourth place in the Amateur rankings for Porsche. Bordeaux finished in fifth place among the Amateurs in front of team colleague Georg Engelhardt and Andrina Gugger/Otto Klohs in the second Porsche 911 GT3 R of FACH AUTO TECH.