"Today was our day," said a happy Christina Nielsen (Farnbacher Racing) after the twelfth ADAC GT Masters race at the Lausitzring. She took her Porsche 911 GT3 R to victory in the Gentlemen class, aided by last year's winner, Nick Tandy. The Porsche driver took points out of René Bourdeaux (Tonino by Herberth Motorsport), who finished second, just a whisker off the pace. Remo Lips (Callaway Competition), the winner of Saturday's race, was third in the Corvette.

Nielsen´s team-mate, Nick Tandy, laid the foundations for her success in the Gentlemen class at the very start of the race. The British driver scrapped for the lead at the start with Mike Parisy, the team-mate of Corvette driver Toni Seiler (Callaway Competition), but had to let the French driver go by. Seiler took the wheel of the leading Corvette at the driver changeover but then had to serve a drive-through penalty because more mechanics worked on the yellow Corvette during the driver changeover than regulations permit. Seiler´s penalty gave Nielsen the lead ahead of Bordeaux.

The two leading drivers then found themselves directly behind one another as a result of two safety car periods and scrapped for the class victory. However, Bordeaux did not launch a winning attack on the final laps and Nielsen crossed the finish line just 0.3 seconds ahead of her pursuer. Apart from victory in the Gentlemen class, Nielsen also secured ninth position overall and her first points in the drivers´ standings. Remo Lips took third place from Toni Seiler.

Bordeaux is now five points up on Nielsen in the Gentlemen category with just four races to go until the end of the season.

A happy Nielsen said: "What a great race! I had a smashing scrap with overall championship leader Diego Alessi during the final period, thinking, it can´t hurt to have another car between me and René Bordeaux. Of course, I had the class victory at the back of my mind during the scrap and didn´t take too many risks. Unfortunately, the safety car came out at an inopportune moment, causing my lead to shrink. Nick Tandy prepared the ground well. The team worked superbly and everything went smoothly on our pit stop."

René Bourdeaux was waiting to pounce on any mistake that Nielsen might make during the closing phase of the race, but the 21-year-old secured victory: "I got close to Christina once again by the end of the race thanks to the safety car periods. I was a bit slow off the mark on the first restart, but the second one went much better. One or two faster cars then came up from behind and got between us, however."