ADAC GT Masters·19.9.2014

Porsche improves in second practice: Best time for Jaap van Lagen and Christian Engelhart in the Porsche

Jaap van Lagen (GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport) on the attack. Placed second in the standings, van Lagen took best time for the Porsche 911 GT3 R in second practice along with Christian Engelhart. The black-yellow Porsche posted a 1:21.466 mins at the very beginning of the session, a best time that no one was able to beat. However, Luca Stolz and Maximilian Götz (HTP Motorsport) got very close in the fastest of the Porsches. The two Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG drivers were a fraction off best time with a minuscule deficit of 0.017 secs to place second. Racing at the Sachsenring this afternoon was just as close as earlier in FP1 with the fastest 14 super sports cars all finishing within one second of one another.

As in first practice, Robert Renauer und Dominik Schwager (TONINO Team Herberth) in the Porsche 911 GT3 R came home ahead of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 driven by Alon Day/Luca Ludwig (BKK MOBIL OIL Zakspeed) and the three Audi R8 LMS ultras of championship leaders Kelvin van der Linde/René Rast and Fabian Hamprecht/Nicki Thiim (Prosperia C Abt Racing), plus Philip Geipel and Markus Winkelhock (YACO Racing).

The two BMW Z4 GT3s with Claudia Hürtgen/Dominik Baumann and Max Sandritter/Jens Klingmann (PIXUM Team Schubert) placed eighth and tenth respectively in second practice. Herbert Handlos and Alfred Renauer (TONINO Team Herberth) in the Porsche 911 GT3 R edged into ninth place between the BMWs.

FP2 was suspended three times in all after slides off track into the gravel by Kelvin van der Linde, Jaime Alguersuari and Jaap van Lagen. No ill effects were suffered as a result of the spins, but the session was terminated with three minutes still on the clock after the third red flag.