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The only possible way to describe the fifth round of the FIA GT Championship is ‘action packed’. With temperatures high and the sun shining, the cars and drivers gave the 20,000 spectators lining the Donington circuit a thrilling show, with a three-hour sequence of changes of lead, nose-to-tail battles, and assorted racing incidents. Although both the Force One Viper and the Lister Storm led the race, and the Konrad Saleen and other Lister Storms looked strong, an assortment of mechanical problems and racing incidents meant that the race result was identical to Brno, with the BMS Scuderia Italia Ferrari 550 of Biagi/Bobbi and the Freisinger Motorsport Porsche of Ortelli/Lieb finishing on top of the podium. Hezemans Viper got the better of his team-mate Alliot at the start, and led for the early stages, with Bobbi jumping up from sixth to third, overtaking Alliot and attacking Hezemans for the lead. On lap 15, Bobbi pushed past the Viper and took the lead, but dropped back on the next lap, putting Alliot back in the lead. For the rest of the first hour, the leading cars were involved in a nose-to tail battle, with the top eight cars separated by under 6 seconds. Campbell-Walter, in the Lister, had by then climbed up the order and took the lead ahead of the Biagi/Bobbi Ferrari. Campbell-Walter led for the rest of his stint, handing over to Kinch. But the 21-year old was faced with a charging Biagi, who took the lead on lap 42 and began to pull away. Kinch reacted with some very fast laps but then came into the pits unexpectedly, retiring with broken steering. This left the Ferrari with a significant lead over the Lister Storm of Piccini/Deletraz, while the Konrad Saleen, with Seiler at the wheel, moved up to third. The Lister then had problems with a broken brake pipe, dropping out of contention, and 15 laps from the end the Saleen spun off and dropped down to an eventual 7th place. The Ferrari 550 crossed the line with a lead of over a lap from the Zwaan’s Racing Chrysler Viper, with the Care Racing Ferrari 550 of Bryner/Calderari/Livio, which had benefitted from all the retirements, third. After the finish the Viper was excluded for technical infringements and so the Care Ferrari was elevated to second overall. In the N-GT category the Burt/Turner Team Maranello Concessionaires Ferrari 360 GT led from pole, but was shortly overtaken by the very rapid EMKA Racing Porsche of Sugden/ Collard. The Freisinger Porsche of Ortelli/Lieb also moved ahead of the leading Ferrari. By lap 30, Collard had a lead of 7.4 seconds over Ortelli, with the TMC Ferrari a further 6 seconds behind and shortly to retire with gear-linkage problems. After the first pit-stops, Lieb took the lead, while the second TMC Ferrari of Davies/Mullen lost a rear wheel . By lap 62, Lieb had pulled out a lead of 25 seconds over Sugden. The latter's Porsche then had a long pit-stop due to a transmission problem. This brought the Daoudi/Mowlem Porsche into second place, with the Kirkaldy/Smith Veloqx Motorsport Ferrari 360 GT third. However, vibration problems with the gear-linkage, clearly a weak spot on these cars, meant that the Veloqx car made two pit-stops, dropping back to sixth and promoting the nr 51 Freisinger Motorsport Porsche of Longin/Cardel to third, for an all-Porsche podium.
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