In this season’s third round of the FIA GT Championship, held in torrential rain at the German race track of Oschersleben, Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni, who started on the outside of the front row of the grid, went on to win their first race of the year.

The Ferrari F430 GT brought home three important victories in leading international Gran Turismo competitions last weekend in the GT2 class, taking its first FIA GT Championship win of the year as well as a double victory in the Italian GT Championship encounter.

In this season’s third round of the FIA GT Championship, held in torrential rain at the German race track of Oschersleben, Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni, who started on the outside of the front row of the grid, went on to win their first race of the year and be the most successful of the seven F430 GTs on the entry list. Thanks to this result, the AF Corse team’s Italian pairing, who crossed the line ahead of Marco Holzer/Sean Edwards in a Porsche 997 and Stefan Mücke/Frédéric Makowiecki in an Aston Martin, were able to help consolidate the Ferrari leadership in the Constructors’ standings. Fourth place went to Chris Niachos/Tim Mullen in the CRS Racing Ferrari F430GT who also won the Citation Cup, one place ahead of their team mates Rob Bell/Andrew Kirkaldy. The prestigious racing series will be back in action on 26th July at the legendary Belgian race track at Spa-Francorchamps.

Meanwhile at the Italian GT Championship race at Mugello Ferrari celebrated a triple win in race 1 and a victory in race 2. Both races were won by the F430 with Marco Cioci and Giuseppe Perazzini. In race one the men from the Megadrive team crossed the line ahead of the two Ferraris driven by Massimiliano Mugelli-Thomas Kemenater (SPT) and Rui Aguas-Alessandro Garofano (Advanced Engineering). In the second run the Ferrari drivers were faster than the Porsche 997 with Francisco Cruz Martins-Sascha Maassen and the Lamborghini Gallardo with Matteo Grassotto- Adriano Baso. The next race in the Italian GT Championship will be held on the weekend of 19th July at the Misano Adriatico circuit.