Apart from Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, the Slovakia Ring is the only racetrack on the ADAC GT Masters calendar that crosses a stream. A high-voltage cable forming part of the national grid is also suspended above it.

The chicane made of two tyre stacks and approved by the FIA caused a fair amount of comment in the paddock. It will not be there next season, as it will no longer be necessary to slow the cars down at this point: the summit which followed the chicane is due to be flattened out over the winter months.

Sunday's ADAC GT Masters race was the 100th in the history of the competition. There are only two models that have contested every race to date, namely the Porsche 911 and Corvette Z06.R GT3.

The Slovakia Ring paddock has a number of regular exhibits in the military hardware line, including a working Russian T72 tank. However, this particular vehicle was parked outside the confines of the circuit for the weekend.

Farnbacher Racing team manager Dominik Farnbacher was in a hurry on Sunday. The SRT Chrysler works driver had to fly out from Vienna the following day to join up with the American Le Mans Series in Texas. Farnbacher in his SRT Viper will be competing in next weekend's race on the Formula 1 track at Austin.

Meanwhile, Martin Ragginger was heading in the opposite direction. The Austrian driver will be contesting the Carrera Cup Asia which forms part of the support programme to the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore. With just two races to go before the end of the Porsche-only competition, 'Raggi' is currently ranked second.

SaReNi United team boss Hans Reiter didn't get to the Slovakia Ring until Saturday evening, having travelled direct from the European Le Mans Series in Budapest.

The Slovakia Ring is the only venue on the ADAC GT Masters calendar to have its media centre outside the paddock. Reporters were based in the circuit's hotel which is 50 metres outside the gate.

Commentary for the races at the Slovakia Ring was provided by ADAC GT Masters spokesman Swen Wauer in German and by Czech MotoGP and Eurosport anchor man Martin Straka in the national language.

ADAC GT Masters TV production partner Wige once again used its Eaglecopter to provide a bird's-eye view of the race; the previous occasion was the Lausitzring weekend.

Probably the best view of the races last weekend was had by those fans who turned up in their motorhomes; the parking area was right next to where the pit lane emerges onto the track. No chance of a lie-in, however, as the engines were roaring from 8am onwards.

A familiar figure from last year's ADAC GT Masters was back in the mix: Andrina Gugger from Switzerland was competing in the Lotus Ladies Cup behind the wheel of her accustomed Lotus Elise.

The support programme at the Slovakia Ring kept fans entertained until after sunset. In addition to the ADAC GT Masters, Formel ADAC and DTC of the DMSB - ADAC Procar, there was the Lotus Ladies Cup, two Hungarian series for GT and single-seater cars plus the Suzuki Swift Cup.

It was Prosperia C Abt Racing team manager Frank Link's birthday on Sunday, so he will have been well pleased with a second-place finish for Christopher Mies and René Rast.

Victory in the Gentlemen class in Sunday's race at the Slovakia Ring secured a further appearance for Kuba Giermaziak in the grand finale at Hockenheim. As part of her podium speech, Christina Nielsen invited her Polish co-driver to continue the partnership into the last race weekend of the season.

The prize for most quotable remark of the weekend surely goes to Roland Asch, father of Audi driver Sebastian Asch. After the R8 entered by MS RACING from Waldshut-Tiengen came to a dead stop in the first free practice session, he drily commented in broad dialect: "Nedd genug Schbrid im Tank, d Schwärzwäldr sind joo no gizigr als d Schwabe." (Not enough fuel in the tank - those Black Forest people are even stingier than the Swabians.)