Misano’s hard‑sunday found KTM’s Aiden Mraz and Oleg Kajaia in the overall top‑spot after a chaotic first race featuring a 45‑minute red flag, multiple penalties and the exit of the podium‑contender, Antoine Potty.
Race 1 – Chaos on the Alghero track
The opening lap saw Potty on pole in the I4Race Maserati. He gave the lead to Ginetta’s Mikkel Njor on lap 2 and then reclaimed it by lap 5, before a brake fault forced a front‑end collision at Tramonto that took his car out of the race. The safety car stayed for a long stretch, then a red flag followed by marshals refitting the barriers left the grid on standby for almost 45 minutes.
When racing resumed on lap 12, the pole‑positioned L Pirri‑led‑Maserati kept a hard‑pressed fight with Lorenzo Marcucci’s Audi and Ginetta‑driven nimble drivers, only to be moved back by an FIA‑issued drive‑through for the Mercedes. A series of penalties then saw Nikcolò Pirri, Yu Lee and other top‑order cars forced to slow, while a penalty for track‑limit breaches chased the aggregated running tallied by the Mercedes‑SR team.
Penalties and a surprise podium
Potty’s exit left the #119 KTM–MZR Motorsport car in a position to claim the sole grand prize when the Italian‑French Maserati was disqualified for under‑weight. The KTM crew, consisting of Aigner and Kofler, crossed the line first, retaining the Pro/Am crown, while the #110 Mercedes‑SR finished in combined third overall and second in Pro/Am.
Meanwhile, the Masters class fell under the jurisdiction of LP Racing’s performance, where Peel–Prette fought to bring the #1 Maserati into fourth overall. The result saw LP earn a Masters victory, with the #8 Maserati teammates Lee and Pirri making it to the five‑th place corridor of the Pro/Am standings.
Race 2 – Fast‑paced re‑start
The second race opened shy of the same chaos, with Potty’s previous crash rendering the Maserati unqualified. Mercedes duty Fleissig–Hartling exploded from the front, followed by Maserati’s Prette and Calamia, before a spin by Pirri forced a stop on lap 7, dropping him out of the top tune.
The lead quickly trocar to a Ginetta‑led front, as Njor advanced from the #3 Ginetta‑CMR, ruthlessly slashing past Thorium’s Thilenius/Hartling and from thence to the overall win. Leading the silver class, Njor’s spirit was not matched by the strong finishing bid by Rosina and Marcucci who finished second overall.
Class finish and post‑event highlights
In the Masters contest, KTM’s Mraz/Kajaia edged formidable rivals after Ginetta left a collision mark on the track, handing the class to the GTX‑powered vehicle. The top five also contained a dominant Mercedes‑NM with Ferrer’s comeback, a Porsche‑Iron Dames showing a fast finish, and the #898 KTM‑MRZ finishing in the top ten.
The weekend also bore witness to a blatant collision in the finishing line that separated the Pilots and the addresses, as well as the uneven performance of the #7 Dinamic Motorsport Maserati, finished merely seventh in the Pro/Am wheelchair.
Looking ahead: a tight schedule awaits Misano’s drivers
With the overtaking wars over and the teams regrouping around lessons learned, the next stop in the GT2 European Series fuels a looming battle between the advancing Ginetta, the resilient Maserati squad and the veteran‑powered KTM.
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