{"id":449,"date":"2009-08-30T21:50:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=449"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:41:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T23:41:50","slug":"race-report-risi-competizione-mosport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/race-report-risi-competizione-mosport\/","title":{"rendered":"Race report-Risi Competizione | Mosport"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">RISI RACE TO STRONG SECOND PLACE AT MOSPORT | 30.08.2009 <\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer drove a superb race from the back of the grid to take second place at the Grand Prix of Mosport today, crossing the line just 0.3 seconds behind the GT class winning #3 Corvette C6.R of Jan Magnussen and Johnny O\u2019Connell.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe red Ferrari F430 GT and the two yellow Corvettes put on quite a show for the fans and the TV audience with plentiful good, clean, nose-to-tail racing.\u00a0 <!--more-->That the Ferrari was able to be in this position was thanks to the brilliance of Risi Competizione\u2019s Brazilian driver who moved from 9th up to 5th in the highly competitive class within the first ten laps, and up to 2nd by the time the team\u2019s first pit stop took place an hour into the race.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSuper-fast and slick pit work by the Risi Competizione mechanics, under the first and only full course caution period, saw the Ferrari move into the class lead \u2013 a position it held for another ten laps before the #4 Corvette pushed past amongst traffic.\u00a0 Despite challenging hard right through to the end of the race, first with the #4 and then with the #3, Pierre Kaffer was unable to get close enough on the straights to be able to find a way past into the lead.\u00a0 The German set the fastest GT lap of the race with a time of 1:18.602 during this time, and completed a faultless double stint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giuseppe Risi <\/strong>was delighted with his team\u2019s performance and commented afterwards,\u00a0 \u201cToday the team has re-established itself one more time in the American Le Mans Series.\u00a0 I\u2019m very proud of the way that both our drivers performed, and of the whole team for the job they did in repairing the car after yesterday\u2019s practice accident.\u00a0 Their pit work today was also very good indeed and we gained much from that too.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAn extremely happy <strong>Pierre Kaffer<\/strong> was full of praise for the Risi team.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m really pleased for the team to have got this result because the guys did a great job to put everything back together overnight.\u00a0 The car was great to drive, and Jaime did a perfect first stint to get us in the right position to fight for the victory.\u00a0 It was a great race right until the finish with hard but fair racing, and the Corvette deserved to win in the end.\u00a0 But I must say that in Atlanta I think it should be the other way round!\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Jaime Melo <\/strong>recognised that this was a great result considering the team\u2019s starting place. \u201cIt was hard work but I pushed from the beginning, that was my strategy.\u00a0 The car was really good in Turns 8, 9 and 10 which allowed me to get good exit speed from T10 allowing me to get most of the guys into Turn 1.\u00a0 The team did a very good job on the pit stops, like always, and thank you to them for everything they did for the repair of the car and to put the car in such good shape for the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF\/Risi Competizione<\/span><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RISI RACE TO STRONG SECOND PLACE AT MOSPORT | 30.08.2009 \u00a0 Jaime Melo and Pierre Kaffer drove a superb race from the back of the grid to take second place at the Grand Prix of Mosport today, crossing the line just 0.3 seconds behind the GT class winning #3 Corvette C6.R of Jan Magnussen and 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