Luca Franca and Ian Rodríguez took an important win in Race 1 at Hockenheim. The ItalianGuatemalan duo, at the wheel of their FAEMS Team Porsche emerged as victors in the second part of the race after a perfect performance, and have now extended their lead in the standings to 25 points with respect to Ludovico Longoni and Pietro Armanni (ZRS Porsche), who today did not score points in a race rich in incidents.
The overall podium was completed by two Mertel Ferraris, with Matteo Luvisi-Davie Larini second and Antoine Berberich-Martini third.
The success in Pro-Am, their second this year, was for Davide Scannicchio-Fabio Babini (Tsunami Porsche), who now take the lead in the class standings, ahead of Luca Attianese-Riccardo Romagnoli (SP Racing Porsche) and Tommaso Lovati-Mauro Trentin (Mertel Ferrari), two pairs that visited the podium for the first time.
In Am, third seasonal success for Cássio H. de Mello in the GDL Racing Porsche, who preceeded Leandro Martins-Dieter Svepes (LMR Porsche) and Cosimo Papi-Sebastian Fortuna (Ebimotors Porsche).
The race started with poleman Paul Meijer taking command of the operations, but at turn one a contact in the group eliminated two of the front-runners,Stienes Longin (Q1 Trackracing Porsche) and Luca Demarchi (Mertel Ferrari), prompting the safety car out. The race restarted in lap 4, with Meijer increasing its gap up to 7 seconds at the moment of the pit stops (lap 11). Behind him, Rodriguez, Brauns, Larini, Zaenen, Nunes, Bugliotti and de Mello.
After driver changes, Vandierendonck led until he was passed by Franca in lap 17, followed by Fernandes, Laura Van den Hengel, Luvisi, Ferter, Bugliotti and de Mello, while Longoni had to retire. Shortly after, Van den Hengel missed a braking, colliding with Fernandes. Both cars were out of the race and the safety car came in again. More drama occurred in the last lap when Bugliotti, second in Am, collected Vandierendonck.