Markus Palttala and Jesse Krohn in the #99 Rowe Racing M6 GT3 finished fourth in the Sunday Blancpain GT Series sprint race at the Nürburgring. Their Rowe Racing teammates António Félix da Costa and Jens Klingmann in car #98 finished eleventh.
In race one on Saturday Félix da Costa and Klingmann finished seventh after starting twentieth on the grid, while Palttala and Krohn finished tenth after starting 26th.
Franck Perera and Maximilian Buhk in a Mercedes-AMG won the first race, while Robin Frijns and Stuart Leonard in an Audi R8 LMS won the second race. Frijns and Leonard won the Blancpain Sprint Series Cup when the two main contenders, Buhk and Audi racer Laurens Vanthoor, had problems; Buhk retired with a puncture and Vanthoor had to serve a penalty for a pit stop infraction.
While the sprint portion of the Blancpain series is over, there is another round of the endurance cup in Barcelona on September 30 and October 1.—Brian S. Morgan
