Brno 2002 Lease Plan 19/05/2002   19/05/2002 Race report   The Lister Storm Racing Lister Storm, driven by Jamie Campbell-Walter and Nicolaus Springer, took its second victory of the year at the third round of the FIA GT Championship at Brno. Campbell-Walter took the lead on the very last lap of racing when Fabrizio Gollin, driving the Carsport Holland Chrysler Viper GTS-R, ran out of fuel while leading, and was forced to complete a slow final lap to take third position. The result means that Campbell-Walter and Springer retain the lead in the drivers’ championship. The Briton started from third on the grid, but took the lead during a Safety Car period. He held it until the first round of pit stops, handing Springer a healthy lead as the team did not change tyres. Springer handed back just short of the second hour for Campbell-Walter to finish. Campbell-Walter re-joined in sixth position, and enjoyed a classic battle for the lead with the Larbre Competition Chrysler Viper GTS-R of Christophe Bouchut, Gollin, and the Paul Belmondo Racing Chrysler Viper GTS-R of Fabio Babini. Babini dropped out of contention after an excursion to the gravel, leaving Campbell-Walter and Bouchut to exchange places behind Gollin, but it was the Lister ahead at the flag. The second Lister Storm of Paul Knapfield and Bobby Verdon-Roe crashed out in the second hour of the race with Knapfield on board after the Englishman hit oil mid-corner and spun into the gravel. Jamie Campbell-Walter, Lister Storm, Lister Storm Racing: “I can’t remember everything that happened out there today. The start was good. After the safety car period, I was first, and ran to the fuel stop. Nick then took over with no tyre changes, which we thought to be a good idea, and proved to be the right decision at the end. Nick did a great job, considering that the tyre wear here is very hard, and he drove well on my old tyres. He brought the car back and I took over with one hour and five minutes to go. "The car was really good, and I had a great battle with Christophe Bouchut. There was no contact at all between us, just really good racing. I dropped back now and then, usually due to a slide or passing a back-marker, but basically it was pure racing, giving ten tenths for the full last hour. It was really good fun and great to have racing like that. When I saw Kumpen in the gravel, I thought we were in with a chance. As for the end, it was just fantastic.” Christophe Bouchut, Chrysler Viper, Larbre Competition Chéreau: “It was a really good fight for everyone, and a great show. It was a wonderful race, even if we did not win. It was good to change places many times during the final hour, everyone was very strong, and it was easy to make mistakes. It was a very nice race.” Mike Hezemans, Carsport Holland Chrysler Viper GTS-R: “It is unbelievable. I was so much quicker, and the car was so easy. It had no oversteer and no understeer, it really was perfect. I was doing 2:02s laps, and sometimes I would brake a little bit later and see a 2:01 and I would back off. It was going so easy. My father was on the radio saying ‘go slow’ and I was saying ‘I am going slow!’ It was unbelievable, it was so easy. I was lucky, though, I ran out of fuel and I just about made it back to the pits. With a 53s lead you just go easy, no problems, and then the wheel falls off! At Silverstone we had a 26-second lead and that was ours also. I was amazed with the tyres. I wanted tyres that were 20 laps old to start the race, we were very soft on the springs and the tyres were absolutely fantastic.” GT Results 1 Campbell-Walter/Springer (Lister Storm) 85 Laps 2 Bouchut/Terrien (Chrysler Viper GTS-R) +2.813 3 Gollin (Chrysler Viper GTS-R) +18.982 4 Vosse/Rosenblad (Chrysler Viper GTS-R) +44.307 5 Duez/Babini (Chrysler Viper GTS-R) +2 Laps 6 Belmondo/Derrick (Chrysler Viper GTS-R) +2 Laps 7 Reid/Casadei (Porsche 911 GT2) +5 Laps 8 Stanco/Marcinkiewicz/Dziurka (Porsche 911 GT2) +7 Laps 9 Hezemans/Kumpen (Chrysler Viper) +10 Laps 10 Riccitelli/Quester (Porsche 996 GT) +21 Laps N GT Results 1 Lieb/Ortelli 82 Laps 2 Pescatori/Montermini (Ferrari 360 Modena) +20.514 3 Peter/Wolff (Porsche 996 GT3-R) +1 Lap 4 Von Gartzen/Khan (Porsche 996 GT3-R) +1 Lap 5 Lambertini/Pregliasco/Alexander (Ferrari 360 Modena) +1 Lap 6 Van Merksteijn/Bastiaans (Porsche 996 GT3-R) +1 Lap Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport