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With the exception of the race in Brno, which clashes with the Le Mans Series, the German Lamborghini Team enters a Murciélago R-GT with drivers Peter

Kox (NL) and Roman Rusinov (RUS). Season opener at Silverstone Tricky conditions awaited the Reiter Engineering team at the opening round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship at Silverstone.

Typical British weather circulated over the "Home of British Motor Racing". Bitter winds, cold temperatures and a damp track in qualifying and the race made the event exciting. While Peter Kox and Roman Rusinov experimented with new dampers in free practice and did not appear far up the time sheets, unsettled weather in qualifying left the duo in an unfortunate 14th position on the grid.

All the cars were on slicks at the start of the 15 minute session, however, brief showers quickly made the Silverstone track surface very slippery. The decision to change from slicks to intermediates was quickly and correctly made by the team. However, it was difficult to bring the front tyres up to operating temperature in these cold and damp conditions.

The warm-up on Sunday morning was, in contrast, more positive as there was more time available in conditions similar to those in qualifying. Peter Kox was satisfied: "I set a 2:07 lap right at the be- ginning, the tyres came up to temperature quickly and everything worked well."

For the race at noon the track was still damp and Peter Kox was sent to the grid with rain tyres. The Dutchman quickly worked his up from 14th to 9th before the first of two mandatory pit stops loomed.

"Unfortunately, we made a wrong decision as far as the strategy was concerned during the race," explained Team Director Hans Reiter. "We changed to intermediates too late as the circuit conditions began to change and we didn’t change to slicks at the end when it was necessary."

Neither Peter Kox nor Roman Rusinov, who took control of the car on lap 39, was able to catch up with the leader and was overtaken by another competitor in the final part of the race. After two hours Kox / Rusinov finished the first round of the 2008 FIA GT Championship in tenth position overall.

- Jacquie Groom FIA -

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