Porsche Cup: The junior shows his maturity 🎥

Things went almost perfectly for the 20-year-old German from the Bavarian Huber Racing team (top gallery left and center) in the GT3 Cup sprint race, even on a rain-soaked track. The driver sponsored by Porsche Motorsport Club Suisse and Porsche Schweiz AG took the lead straight from pole position and did not relinquish it on the drying track until the finish.

Schwarzer and Burkhard push ahead
Second place, 2.5 seconds behind, went to Alexander Schwarzer (top gallery, right), who gained two positions right at the start in the current-generation 911 GT3 Cup with around 510 hp. Ernst Keller, the 2018 GT3 Cup champion, was forced to retire on the second lap, while Peter Hegglin rejoined the field in penultimate place after an incident and only managed 12th.

However, Gregor Burkard (center gallery, left) made up ground on the day. A sports penalty for an offense at the first PSCS weekend in Spielberg had moved him back five places on the grid to ninth position. After the opening lap he was already back in third place. At the finish he was just 0.413 seconds behind Schwarzer. Fourth place went to Marc Arn (center gallery), who managed to slip past Jan Klingelnberg in the seventh lap.

The table leader makes it exciting
The approximately 70-minute endurance race over 28 laps on the 5.842-kilometer Grand Prix variant presented Kapfinger with greater challenges. This already began for him with qualifying group 1, which found wetter conditions than group 2. For the Passau native, this meant grid position two behind Schwarzer within class 1 for GT3 Cup contenders and position 13 in the overall standings for all vehicles.

Kapfinger passed Schwarzer on lap four and took over the class lead. He initially lost the lead to William Mezzetti during the mandatory pit stop, which was unfortunately timed due to a safety car phase. However, the junior had slicks fitted and straightened out the situation on lap 17. A short time later he was also leading the overall standings. At the finish he had an almost twelve-second lead over the Italian, who as in the sprint race had set the fastest race lap. Gregor Burkard finished third, just ahead of Marc Arn and Schwarzer.

Jocelyn Langer, the second sponsored driver of Porsche Motorsport Club Suisse and Porsche Schweiz AG, finished 14th in the Sprint race and 13th in class in the Endurance competition.

GT4 victories to Lietzau and Schetty
In the GT4 field (middle gallery on the right), Markus Lietzau in the 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport with so-called MR package emerged as the winner. The German had started from third place and led a fighting trio consisting of Patrick Schetty and Detlef Schmidt. In the course of the race, the trio fell to Alexandre Mottet and Remo Stebler, who had started from row 1.

In the Endurance race, Antonio Garzon and professional Antoine Leclerc seemed to be heading for victory before the Cayman had to be parked in the pit lane. This was the hour of Patrick Schetty, who had steadily worked his way up from the seventh starting position in the class. Second place went to Detlef Schmidt and Gero Bauknecht ahead of Alexandre Mottet, who finished third together with Loïc Villiger.

The twin brother can do it too
In the sprint race of the Open GT group, US American Dustin Blattner (lower gallery, left), a participant in the Porsche Track Experience, came out on top ahead of Michael Kapfinger, Johannes' twin brother. Both drove a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup of the current 992 nine-eleven generation with racing ABS and traction control. Third place went to Wolfgang Triller with the predecessor model of the 911 GT3 Cup. The long race was decided by the Austrian duo Drmic/Svepes in third overall behind the two fastest GT3 Cup drivers.

Surprising winner in the uniformity test
Margret Melse was the big surprise of the Porsche Drivers Competition Suisse (PDC). She won the shorter uniformity competition over five laps in the Classic classification without electronic aids with her Porsche 718 Cayman S (lower gallery on the left). Tommy Eriksson and Robert Schwaller came a close second and third (lower gallery right).

Schwaller then returned the favor in the longer test over eight scored laps. Second place again went to Eriksson ahead of Marius Hutmacher. In the Chrono classification for participants with electronic aids, Nicolas Garski won twice. But with Cepand Djamchidi the PDC champion had only one challenger.

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