Le Castellet, 29 July 2006

The Ferrari Racing Days event got into its stride today at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit at Le Castellet (France) with the fourth and fifth rounds respectively of the European Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge and the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy.

Competitors in the one-make series, this year marking the debut of the new F430, alongside some 360 Modenas still eligible to race for this year only, had their first races of the weekend today.
In the main Pirelli Trophy category, victory went to Ross Kaiser (Ferrari GB Dealer Team) with the Englishman crossing the line ahead of France's Gilles Vannelet (Auto Palace / Star Rent Competition) and Dutchman John Bosch (Barron Racing / Kroymans.) As for the gentlemen drivers in the Shell Cup, Switzerland's Lloyd La Marca (Modena Cars Racing) who took the win ahead of Germany's Dennis Huebner (Baron Service) and the Monegasque driver Philippe Prette (Auto Palace / Star Rent Competition.) In the separate classification for the 360 Modena, coming home first was the German Bjorn Grossmann (Autohaus Gohm / G2 Racing.)



Also racing today, the cars in the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge, which since 1999 has also been open to Maserati cars.
Victory among the single-seaters, sports-prototypes and GT cars fitted with drum brakes for Grids A and B went to the 1937 Maserati 6CM of Germany's Stefan Schollwöck, while the Ferrari 512 BB LM (1980) of France's Jean Guikas took race-1 in group C (cars with disc brakes.)

Tomorrow is the main day of the event and the action gets underway at 11.25 with the second race in the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy, for drivers in the Shell Cup.