20th October 2002

CARE RACING & BMS SCUDERIA ITALIA FOURTH WIN

The sixth season of the FIA GT Championship drew to a close at Estoril today, with a fine race, full of changes of fortune on a drying track.

As the positions in the top six changed, the GT Teams and Drivers titles swung between Terrien, Bouchut, Campbell-Walter and Springer, and their teams Larbre Competition Chéreau and Lister Storm Racing.

However, as the track dried, the situation stabilised, with Deletraz and Piccini, in their Ferrari 550 Maranello, giving BMS Scuderia Italia its fourth win of the season.

Carsport Holland was second, ahead of a late-charging Jamie Campbell-Walter in the Lister Storm.

Christophe Bouchut, in fourth, claimed the FIA GT Championship Drivers title for the second consecutive year, giving his team Larbre Competition Chéreau the Teams title.

The Freisinger Motorsport duo of Ortelli and Maassen put in a dominant performance in N-GT, to secure the N-GT Teams Championship for Freisinger, finishing ahead of Cirtek Motorsport’s Jones and Dumas, with Veloqx Motorsport putting in an excellent third place in their Ferrari Modena 360.

Andrea Piccini and Jean-Denis Deletraz took their fourth win of the year in the nr 23 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 Maranello. The pair started on wet weather tyres and led for the opening laps before Campbell-Walter and Hezemans got past on their intermediate tyres.
It was not until the final hour that the pair took the lead again and Piccini pulled out enough of a lead to hold it to the flag.
The nr 22 BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari of Jean-Marc Gounon, Enzo Calderari and Lilian Bryner, finished fifth after starting the race on intermediate tyres.