STUTTGART, Germany — Larry ten Voorde followed up his win from Saturday to score the second race of the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland in Zandvoort, and moves to the top of the leaderboard of the one-make series with the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
The 27-year-old from the Proton Huber Competition team beat his compatriot Robert de Haan across the line on the Formula 1 race track on the Dutch North Sea coast. Driving for Team75 Bernhard, the 17-year-old Dutchman clinched victory in the rookie classification. German driver Theo Oeverhaus from Team Bonk Motorsport finished third.
The foundation for ten Voorde’s third win of the season was laid in the opening seconds of the 19-lap race. Although the reigning champion lined up on the second grid spot at the wheel of his Porsche 911 GT3 Cup, he got off the line better than polesitter Huub van Eijndhoven. However, the 24-year-old Dutchman’s race turned into a nightmare.
Eijndhoven was only able to hold onto second place until halfway through the race before a puncture sent the Uniserver by Team GP Elite driver to the pits. Ultimately, he finished outside the points.
Ten Voorde, on the other hand, drove a commanding race to clinch his sixth Carrera Cup victory in Zandvoort.
“I didn’t have the fastest car today and had to give everything to keep Robert de Haan at bay,” analyzed the defending champion and new leader of the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland drivers’ standings.
Ten Voorde flew straight from the podium ceremony in Zandvoort to Le Mans. On Sunday afternoon he took part in the official test drives for the 24-hour race next weekend.
Robert de Haan made a similar overtaking maneuver to that of Larry ten Voorde — Starting from fourth position, he squeezed past Harry King in the dash to the first corner. “Our cars made contact, after which my steering wasn’t quite straight,” he said. “That prevented me from attacking Larry over the rest of the race.”
Harry King’s Porsche 911 GT3 Cup did not come away from the duel with de Haan unscathed.
“The body of the car occasionally rubbed against the right rear tire, which resulted in the tire deteriorating. I nearly spun out several times on the left-handers,” King reported. The Briton, who drives for the German team Allied-Racing, kept fighting. Despite having to let Theo Oeverhaus pass him, he managed to cross the finish line in fifth place. Alexander Tauscher finished sixth.
Because the Frenchman Marvin Klein, who initially finished third, was later disqualified due to an infringement of the technical regulations, both drivers moved up one place in the official results.
For the same reason, Theo Oeverhaus was classified third, repeating his result from Saturday.
“That was a very intense race. I had several brushes with different competitors. Fortunately, my car survived all of them well,” summarized the driver from Germany, who had originally crossed the finish line in fourth place. With his result, two drivers from the Porsche Sixt Carrera Cup Deutschland Talent Pool finished in the top three of the overall standings.
Behind Robert de Haan, Dutchman Kas Haverkort and German Colin Jamie Bönighausen took the top three positions in the rookie classification. They also underlined the skills of the Carrera Cup rookies with sixth and seventh place in the overall standings.
The best-placed ProAm driver was Ahmad Alshehab.
“I had issues getting my tires up to temperature. I had to fight hard for the ProAm win,” said the businessman from Kuwait, who drives for the German team CarTech Motorsport.
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