Marinangeli-Agostini (AF Corse Ferrari) take great win at home

Two weeks after Red Bull Ring, Riccardo Agostini and Nicola Marinangeli have taken their second win of the season, at home in Monza and in front of their crowd. The AF Corse duo put a perfect race to beat the SPS Mercedes of Reece Barr-Mikaeel Pitamber and the Oregon Team Lambo of Max Paul-Pierre Louis Chovet, in another podium dominated by youth.

The situation in the overall standings ahead of the decisive round is completely open, with Menchaca (Motopark Mercedes) in the lead with 104 points, closely followed by De Haan-Fagg (Optimum McLaren, 101), Reicher-Haase (Eastalent Audi, 100) and Paul-Chovet (Oregon Lambo, 88).

It was a perfect day also for Olimp Racing, as the Polish squad brought home top honours in both Pro-Am, with Marcin Jedlinski-Karol Basz (Audi) and Am, with Stanislaw Jedlinski- Krystian Korzeniowski (Ferrari).

THE RACE – Pierre-Louis Chovet, who took his second pole of the year ahead of Reece Barr, has no trouble in keeping the advantage at the start, while the Irishman is passed by Fagg, in the outside line, Haase and Fumanelli. Mettler is sixth ahead of Agostini, Jans and Osieka, first in Am. Moss starts from the pits because of last-minute technical problems. In lap 3, the safet car is out to allow recovering the Ferrari of Cuhadaroglu.

At the restart, in lap 5, Chovet keeps everything under control, increasing steadily his advantage up to 8 seconds, followed by Haase, Barr, Fumanelli, Agostini, Mettler, Jens and Sernagiotto who is the new leader in Am, after an off-track of Osieka, Sernagiotto, Menchaca and Pavlovic.

In lap 12, opens the pit stop window during which the Aston of Fazal-Karim remains stuck in turn 1 after being hit by Cuhadaroglu . Shortly after, there is action in the middle of a fighting group, with Cipriani sent into the barriers ahead of turn 1. Montermini will receive a drive-through for this incident.

Shortly after the window closes, Jousset is out in the gravel at Lesmo while, in a separate incident, Cozzi goes off-track and is hit by Walker when it rejoins the track. The safety car is deployed (lap 18). Leading is Marinangeli, 7 seconds ahead of De Haan, Pitamber, Reicher, Paul, Arrow, Neubauer, and Müller, who is first in Pro-Am, while Saada leads in Am.

At the restart (lap 22), there is an assertive move of Neubauer at the exit of the first chicane, with the Frenchman passing Arrow and Paul and taking fifth behind Marinangeli, Pitamber, De Haan and Reicher. The top four doesn’t change but Paul retrieves fifth from Neubauer , while in eighth Basz leads the Pro-Am top five including Cheever, Blom, Muller and Schirò, while Rumpfkeil, who was leading in Am, drops to third after a penalty for a contact with Stanley, leaving the success to Korzeniowski and second to Osieka.

At the top, Marinangeli wins ahead of Pitamber, with Paul charging back to third, then Jedlinski, Reicher and Neubauer, while Fagg drops to 8th because of a 5-second penalty for breaking formation at the start, inflicted also to Mettler and Proctor.