Motorsport: Wet start to Porsche Cup Suisse

Well qualified is half the battle: Jean-Paul von Burg was happy with his pole position in the GT3 Cup Challenge, which he clinched in the dry. Thanks to the best visibility and well-dosed risk, he stayed in the lead after the start behind the safety car until the early stop due to heavy rain. "It was just incredibly slippery," the victorious defending champion welcomed the decision. Von Jean-Paul von Burg also decided the Endurance race in his 991 GT3 Cup in his favor, where conditions were not quite as difficult. Despite a one-minute time penalty for overtaking a competitor during the safety car phase, Ernst Keller maintained second place as in the sprint.

Heinz Bruder turned the fastest lap
In the Porsche Sports Cup, the drivers from Group 3b dominated with their new Cayman GT4 Clubsport. Heinz Bruder won this classification in a sprint ahead of Eric Schmid and Thomas Brauch, also setting the fastest race lap. For the endurance race, the duo Pascal Delafontaine/Richard Feller secured the best starting position, but had to settle for fourth place. Soloist Heinz Bruder won again, this time ahead of Patrick Meystre and the duo Marco Zolin-Meyer and Alex Fach. The latter thus proved that he is not only a good team leader.

Sonja Heiniger won in the Driver's Challenge
Victory in the Porsche Driver's Challenge on a wet Sunday went to Sonja Heiniger in her 997 Turbo. In this uniformity test, the average of all a driver's laps is defined as the reference lap. All deviations are converted into penalty points, of which Sonja Heiniger collected the fewest. Second place among the 13 participants went to René Auinger in a 991 GT3 RS.

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