The Racing Box Lola B09/80 LMP's celebrated a 1-2 victory at Vallelunga near Rome over the weekend. Thomas Biagi, Filippo Franchioni and Edoardo Piscopo headed home the sister Lola LMP2 of Ferdinando Geri, Giacomo Piccini and Andrea Piccini in the traditional season closing endurance race.

The blue and white Lola's dominated proceedings throughout the two day meeting with Biagi setting the pole position time in the Judd powered Lola sports car. Biagi's team mate Francioni started the race in damp conditions and built a huge lead before handing over to former A1 GP driver Piscopo. The LMP debutante drove a faultless stint before handing over to Biagi, who capped a successful season for the Italian team and rounded out a year that had begun with a win at the Barcelona 1000kms in April.

After a mid race stoppage, the second Lola-Judd of Geri and the Piccini brothers clawed back lost time to take the runners up position. It was a superb effort from Racing Box team boss Ferdinando Geri who was making his race debut in the car.

RACE RESULT

1 Racing Box Lola Judd LMP2 223 laps 6:00'43.106 (Biagi Thomas - Francioni Filippo - Piscopo Edoardo)
2 Racing Box Lola Judd LMP2 +8 laps (Geri Fernando - Piccini Giacomo - Piccini Andrea)
3 Audisio & BE Lucchini A.R G CN4 +8 laps (Chiminelli Fabio - Mastrangelo Claudio - Rigon Davide)
4 AF Corse Ferrari F430 G Open GT +13 laps (Kauffman Robert - Aguas Rui - Cadei Niki)
5 GDL Racing Porsche 997 GT3 FIAGT +17 laps ("SPIDEY" - Borghi Stefano - Mastronardi Rino)
6 Scuderia Ven Corvette GT3 FIAG3 +19 laps (Marchetti Elio - Pirro Emanuele - Graziani Carlo)
7 AF Corse Ferrari F430 G Open GT +19 laps (Mehta Vimal - Breslin Sean - Breslin Sean Paul)
8 Oregon Team Megane Trophy +20 laps (Valsecchi Davide - Sbirrazzuoli Cedric - Bartyan Michele)
9 Kessel Racing FerrariI 430 GT3 FIAG3 +23 laps (Forgione Gino - Carugati Tiziano - Lamazza Francesco)
10 PAI Lucchini A.R G CN4 +27 laps (Vita Filippo - Marcolla Gianni)
11 Kessel Racing Ferrari 430 GT3 FIAG3 +28 laps (Salucci Alessio - Ceccato Andrea - Rossi Valentino)
12 Island Motorsport Juno SSE G VVCN2 +31 laps (Maneschi Marco - Barresi Giuseppe - Sciascia Roberto)
13 Scuderia Corse Maserati Granturismo G FIA G4 +31 laps (Pastorelli Nicky - Bertolini Andrea)
14 Oregon Team Megane Trophy +32 laps (Longo Giovanni - Russo Francesco - Gallia Secondo)
15 Target Motorsport Norma Honda G CN2 +42 laps (Romanogli Riccardo - Romanini Diego - Visconti Marco)
16 Star Cars Porsche Cayman Trophy +44 laps (Sangiuolo Raffaele - De Pasquale Giuseppe - Gagliardini Andrea)

NON CLASSIFIED NC AF Corse Ferrari F430 G FIAGT 88 laps (Perazzini Piergiuseppe - Bruni Giammaria - Cioci Marco)
NC Kessel Racing 430 G FIAG3 79 laps (Moncini Emanuele - Naspetti Emanuele - Taddeo Aldo)
NC Sogno Lucchini G CN4 26 laps (Barisone Mauro - Solieri Glauco)
NC Stadler Motorsport Porsche 997 G FIAGT 17 laps (Seefried Marco - Renz Karl)

All pictures Lola Heritage.


Thomas Biaggi celebrates his victory.



One of the successful Racing Box Lolas.