The unstoppable success of the GT2 class Ferrari F430 GT went on in the international Gran Turismo competitions last weekend. At the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit in Castellet, this year's FIA GT Championship seventh round, Ferrari and AF Corse gained with one race still to go the constructors’ and teams’ titles for the fourth time in a row, while in Monza the extraordinary cars dominated both races in the sixth round of the international GP Open.

On the French track, open to spectators for the first time after ten years, victory went to the car carrying number 50 of the AF Corse team with the excellent Gimmi Bruni and Toni Vilander behind the wheel. They crossed the line ahead of the Porsche 911 GT3 RSR of their big-time rivals Emmanuel Collard and Richard Westbrook, who were investigated at the end of the race.

Also the other F430 from the unbeatable Italian team, this time with the drivers Niki Cadei and Alvaro Barba Lopez, made it onto the GT2 class podium. As far as the drivers’ title is concerned the championship is still open and will be decided on the Belgian Zolder circuit on 25 October and after the stewards’ verdict. There was also a blast from the past in the GT1 class at Paul Ricard as one of the pensionable-age Prodrive-built Ferrari 550 Maranellos entered by the French team Solution F finished a strong seventh overall in the hands of a duo of Frenchmen, Olivier Panis and Ange Barde.

The sixth race of the GT Open Championship meanwhile was held last weekend in Monza, and it was dominated during both rounds of the double-header by the Ferrari of Marcel Fässler and Joël Camathias: at the end of the first race the Trottet Racing team drivers' crossed the line ahead of the Porsche 911 driven by Gianluca Roda and Richard Lietz and the Advanced Engineering F430 GT with Michele Rugolo and Giacomo Ricci, while they won the second race on a podium completely in red ahead of the Ferrari of Raffaele Giammaria and Alessandro Bonetti (Racing Team Edil Cris) and Rugolo and Ricci, crossing the line third again. The last round of the Spanish series will be held on the Montmelò circuit on the weekend of 1 November.