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10/07/2007 FIA GT: Biagi in testa al mondiale dopo la vittoria in Germania
The sun shone on Oschersleben today, for the eighth visit of the FIA GT Championship to the Motorsport Arena, which is celebrating ten years of racing. The 30000 spectators present over the weekend, enjoyed a thrilling round of the FIA GT Championship. However, post-race scrutineering totally overturned the race result in Oschersleben today, with first the third-placed Lamborghini and then the winning Corvette being excluded from the event. This meant that the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 of Bartels and Biagi inherited the win - giving the German team the Oschersleben hat-trick it had hoped to achieve before the event, winning here in 2005, 2006 and 2007. “We lost the race on the circuit, but rules are rules. From terms of pure performance we couldn’t win today,” Bartels said afterwards. “It is not a sweet victory. But we have now won three times in a row here, and increased Tomas’ lead to eight points. This result has turned the points upside down. We also now have a Maserati one-two in the Championship, with Bertolini and Piccini behind Biagi. It might turn into one of the milestones on our defense of our titles. But we have to be fair – we were not competitive enough to beat the Corvette on the track, and I feel slightly sorry for them, as they did a good job today.”...
Fonte: Media FIA GT - 14_FIAGT_oschersleben_2007_report.pdf
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