It was another Ferrari 1-2-3 in GT2 at the fourth round of the FIA GT Championship at Oschersleben today with the AF Corse team taking its second successive 1-2 finish and Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander their second win in a row.

It was another Ferrari 1-2-3 in the GT2 class at the fourth round of the FIA GT Championship at Oschersleben, Germany, today. The AF Corse team took their second successive 1-2 and Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander their second win in a row. Andrew Kirkaldy and Rob Bell were third for the CR Scuderia team, the top three covered by little more than a second on the tight, twisty circuit on the outskirts of Magdeburg. The threat of rain just about held off during the race, giving the 28 starters a clear race.

The Ferrari 430 GT was perfect throughout the race today, Bruni leading from pole position and he was only bothered by a safety car for debris on the circuit mid-way through his second stint. That bunched up the field but the Italian was able to hold off his team-mate and a late challenge from Bell to take the flag. In the middle of their fight was a whole train of Ferraris, all lapped and none giving way, but up front, it was Richard Westbrook's Porsche which was causing the most problems to the race leaders. The British driver, who went almost a full lap down behind the safety car, did not know whether or not he was fighting any of the Ferraris for position and so staunchly held his line past the chequered flag.

Tension runs high between the Ferrari and Porsche teams given the history so far this season, with the Monza result a particular thorn in the sides of both teams. "Richard Westbrook acts like he is still in the Porsche Supercup," said Bruni who was driving the final stint. "He was shutting the door like the last race of the championship and he was still fighting for the title." Third placed Rob Bell added: "We focus as much on the GT2 race as GT1, and when Ferrari is 1-2-3 within 10 metres of each other, we cannot race each other because there are lapped cars in the way." Westbrook said: "I didn't know that we were not fighting for position and I wasn't going to roll out the red carpet for them."

Aston Martin returned a 1-2 result in GT1 when the JetAlliance team of Karl Wendlinger and Ryan Sharp scored their second win of the year. They started from pole position but dropped to third place, behind their team-mates Alex Muller and Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer, returning to the lead during the first round of pit stops. Christophe Bouchut was fired up at the start having claimed to be blocked in qualifying and denied pole position. He put his SRT Corvette into second ahead of Wendlinger at the start, and stayed there until he spun 21 laps later. He was classed seventh with Xavier Maassen having also been penalised for speeding in the pit lane.

Marcel Fassler and Jean-Denis Deletraz took the final GT1 podium position in their Team Phoenix Corvette C6.R after their team-mate, Fabrizio Gollin, spun the car he shared with Mike Hezemans nine laps from home. "There was no bite in the brakes," complained the Italian. Fassler had to defend from Michael Bartels' Maserati in the closing laps, but that battle was decided when the German spun and was classed fifth behind his team-mate Miguel Ramos and Alexander Negrao.