+ Result, Free Practice, Zandvoort
Hendrik Still and Joachim Bölting picked up where they left off in round one by going fastest in the opening Free Practice session at Zandvoort.
Having scored both an outright pole position and a class win in the last round at Circuit Paul Ricard, the W&S Motorsport Porsche pair set the benchmark in a disrupted opening hour in Holland.
With practice being the first experience of the Dutch track for many of the crews, the field took to the track to learn the layout, which hasn’t featured on the series’ calendar since 2021.
That led to a flurry of early top times, as the benchmark was repeatedly lowered by the likes of Erik Eans (Academy Motorsport Ford Mustang), Elias Niskanen (Lema Racing Mercedes-AMG), Benjamin Lariche and Gregory Guilvert (both Team Speedcar Audi).
Guilvert’s best kept the #8 Audi out front before Still pulled 0.141s clear just before the first stoppage to clear a car from the gravel. A second red flag shortly after the restart again disrupted the flow, and a third and final stoppage in the closing minutes set the order.
Still and Bölting stayed ahead both overall and in Pro-Am, with Guilvert and Paul Petit the top Silver in second. Lariche and Robert Consani were third. Silver points leaders Hadrien David and Jan Duran were fourth in their Matmut Évolution Toyota ahead of Ricard race winners Evans and Marco Signoretti’s Ford.
Max Kronberg and Daniel Blickle made it double joy for W&S with their #30 Porsche topping the Am order after Kronberg’s effort put the car well clear of its class rivals. Series returnee Hans Holmlund was second driving his Toyota Gazoo Racing Sweden car solo, ahead of class points leaders Jean-Mathieu Leandri and Antoni de Barn in their Chazel Technologie Course BMW.
Pre-Qualifying is scheduled to get underway at 16:20.