Remo Lips driving a Corvette Z06.R GT3 picked up his second winner's trophy in the ADAC GT Masters Gentlemen class in the fifth race of the season at Spa-Francorchamps. The Swiss amateur ably assisted by RWT Racing Team co-driver Sven Barth finished ahead of Andreas Weishaupt partnered by Christer Jöns in a C.Abt Racing Audi R8. In third place was series newcomer Samuel Sladecka in the Senkyr Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3.

Immediately after the start, Dominic Jöst took his Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 into a class lead but subsequently struggled with ABS problems and had to drop back. Lips then took the lead ahead of the Marioneck/Sladecka BMW and the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 driven by Marc Gassner and Florian Strauss.

After the driver changeover, Barth maintained the lead for the Corvette and drove to the class victory while Sladecka was forced to yield the runner-up spot to Weishaupt's team-mate Jöns. The second Nissan was likewise not exempt from technical failure. After wrestling with electronic problems, Gassner crossed the line in fifth place behind Jöst and Florian Scholze.

"The race went better than expected," said a delighted Lips. "A win in the Gentlemen and tenth in the overall classification is excellent. I haven't tested here, and this is the sort of track where you need to have driven before to be really fast."

It was the third time in five races that Weishaupt has stood on the second podium rung: "That was a top result and the team were also first class today. I've got to do some work on my own performance - this track is longer than the average, so the gaps become somewhat larger. I'm looking forward to the coming races, but as regards this one, I'm reasonably satisfied."

René Bourdeaux, second in the 2013 Gentlemen championship, made a guest start in his Porsche 911 GT3 R and looked to have fourth place sewn up, but then a problem with the tyres required an extra pit stop five minutes before the end, which meant that Bourdeaux and co-driver Alfred Renauer trailed home in sixth.