Felipe Massa took a commanding GT1 victory at the Masaryk Circuit, completing 19 laps in 37:28.656 ahead of Jimmy Johnson and Rowdy Burns, while Fernando Horta managed a brief three-lap cameo before his Saleen S7-R gave up the ghost.
Fernando Horta (#01 crew): Look, the car just decided it identified more as a stationary art installation than a racing machine by lap four.
Patrick "Paper" Head (#01 engineer): Absolute sabotage, mate. Look at this carbon weave. It smells faintly of smuggled cheese and bad intentions. Someone has definitely been licking the intake.
Fernando Horta (#01 crew): I was literally running third on lap two! Third! And now I am here eating lukewarm ham sandwiches with the backmarkers.
Patrick "Paper" Head (#01 engineer): Not sabotage? Then explain why the gear knob just turned into a small potato. The laws of physics have been mugged in the car park.
Post-Race Press Gaggle
Barry Cade (The Exhausted Paddock): Fernando, considering your race lasted approximately as long as a sneeze, do you plan on charging spectator admission next time?
Fernando Horta: Only if you promise to sit in the cockpit and explain to my gear lever why it shouldn't spontaneously decompose.
Anita Job (Pit Lane Gazette): Massa won by nearly twenty seconds, yet people are staring at your pit box like a crime scene. Any comments?
Patrick "Paper" Head: We are looking for fingerprints on the spark plugs. Specifically Italian ones.
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