Adria Motorsport Park is 70 km south of Venice Italy and is one of the newer FIA GT venues.  The tight twisty 2.702-kilometer
(1.68 mile) course hosted Round 3 of the highly competitive 2008 FIA GT championship.  Twenty-seven cars qualified for this two-hour night race and fourteen were GT1 entries.  Four Corvettes were entered, three C6R’s and one C5R. 

 

The GMAC sponsored Nr 5 C6R driven by Marcel Fassler captured the pole position with a time of 1:11.731.  This was 71 thousands of a second faster than the Nr 1 Maserati MC-12. Fabrizio Gollin was fifth fastest in his Nr 6 GMAC Corvette C6R with a time of 1:12.058. Christophe Bouchut was sixth fastest in his SRT C6R. The FIA GT silver Corvette Z06 pace car led the twenty-seven starters on their warm up lap under clear skies. 

When the green flag fell Fassler maintained the lead and the second GMAC Corvette moved to fourth.  The SRT Corvette was slowed with a 40 kilo “rewards weight” for winning the last race at Monza.  The GMAC Corvettes fought for the lead throughout the two-hour grind.  They both had a stirring battle with the Nr 1 Maserati MC-12.  As the clock counted down it was the Hezemans/Gollin GMAC Corvette first across the stripe with a 11.879 second margin.  Maserati was second, the Nr 5 GMAC Corvette was third 2.714 seconds behind the Maserati.  The SRT Corvette C6R was fourth. This was the GMAC team’s first victory of the year.  The podium was a sea of Corvette yellow as the fans roared their approval for this outstanding Corvette victory.

The next FIA GT round is in two weeks time where live video and timing will be available.