FIA GT 2004: Ferrari lacks for a breath the victory, N-GT podium

Hockenheim, May 16th 2004 - A detritus left from several incidents occurred during the race has removed the satisfaction for the first victory to Fabio Babini and Philipp Peter and to the GPC Squadra Corse team. At one minute only from the end of the race the Ferrari 575 of the Italian team, leading the race from few laps, after a great overtaking of Fabio Babini on Matteo Bobbi it has collected a detritus that caused the a tyre puncture. Babini comments: "A bad misfortune, could be a great victory after the overtaking on Bobbi slowed down just from tyres, but the track was completely dirty and was impossible to avoid all detritus". The Saleen droved by Bartels and Alzen, Lechener and Seiler, also lacking the finish line in race has dominated during the three days: Friday the best time in the free practices, Saturday the pole position with the #4 of Lechner, Sunday the #5 of Bartels and Alzen has dominated part of the race also lacking the chequered flag for troubles to the engine's starter system that prevented the ignition after the second pit stop. Also on the Ferrari 360 GTC of De Simone and Pescatori, after a terrific race ran with determination in front of the Porsche and marking also the category best time, electrical problems have made loose precious minutes during the last pit stop, therefore making to lack the victory. GT 1 1 Bobbi/Gardel BMS - Ferrari 550 3:01:27.749 1:38.342 GT 2 2 Capellari/Gollin BMS - Ferrari 550 3.063 1:38.641 GT 3 3 Livio/Calderari/Bryner BMS - Ferrari 550 8.076 1:39.805 GT 4 27 Campbell-Walter Derbyshire Lister Storm 13.191 1:38.577 GT 5 13 Naspetti/Hezemans GPC Squadra Corse - Ferrari 575 31.711 1:39.153 GT 6 11 Peter/Babini GPC Squadra Corse - Ferrari 575 54.692 1:38.839 NGT 8 99 Maassen/Luhr Freisinger - Porsche 996 2 LAPS 1:41.851 NGT 9 50 Ortelli/Collard Freisinger - Porsche 996 2 LAPS 1:41.882 NGT 10 62 Pescatori/Simone GPC Squadra Corse - Ferrari 360 2 LAPS 1:41.406 Next race: Brno, Czech Republic, May 29 / 30