Qualifying for the first race was tight, with less than 1 second separating the top 7 drivers, and as a demonstration of the balance of performance working well, 5 of those top 7 cars, were different models.
The big changes in the line up for this year, are the addition of the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3, and the new Ferrari 458 GT3, which is what lined up on pole for AF Corse.
Off the start, the number 50 AF Corse Ferrari kept its pole position, but further back the #25 Reiter Engineering Lamboghini LP600 of Mayr-Melnof / von Thurn and Taxis made a flying start, moving up to 3rd, ahead of a Schubert BMW Z4 (#6) , and just behind the Fischer Ford GT of Palttala/Lemeret (#13).
Unfortunately number 13 proved to unlucky for the Fisher Ford GT as it got a puncture on lap 10, which somewhat reduced the challenge to the 458 out in front, which ended winning by 10 seconds.
However there were battles going on throughout the field, as usual, with the number 3 Mercedes SLS piloted by Giauque/Paris of Graff Racing charging up through the field after the pit stops, and there being an almighty battle for 2rd between a couple of Z4s, the Graff SLS, and the #9 Aston Martin DBRS9 of LMP Motorsport.
In the end it finished, Ferrari, Aston, Mercedes, followed by not one, not two, not three, but 4! BMW Z4s - proving that the revisions to the Z4 for 2011 work well at Silverstone as well as Portimao
Full results below.
| Race 1 Result | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Car | Class | Drivers | Car | Time | Laps | Gap | Avg speed |
| 1 | 50 | GT3 | Federico Leo/Francesco Castellacci | Ferrari 458 Italia | 01:00:40.783 | 28 | ||
| 2 | 9 | GT3 | Gael Lesoudier/Maxime Martin | Aston Martin DBRS 9 | 01:00:51.216 | 28 | 10.433 | |
| 3 | 3 | GT3 | Philippe Giauque/Mike Parisy | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:00:54.970 | 28 | 14.187 | |
| 4 | 6 | GT3 | Edward Sandström/Abdulaziz Al Faisal | BMW Z4 GT3 | 01:00:55.319 | 28 | 14.536 | |
| 5 | 35 | GT3 | Hoevert Vos/Jeroen den Boer | BMW Z4 GT3 | 01:01:05.191 | 28 | 24.408 | |
| 6 | 7 | GT3 | Csaba Walter/Claudia Hürtgen | BMW Z4 GT3 | 01:01:05.878 | 28 | 25.095 | |
| 7 | 36 | GT3 | Harrie Kolen/Nicky Catsburg | BMW Z4 GT3 | 01:01:05.976 | 28 | 25.193 | |
| 8 | 21 | GT3 | Duncan Cameron/Matthew Griffin | Ferrari 458 Italia | 01:01:08.347 | 28 | 27.564 | |
| 9 | 4 | GT3 | Joakim Lambotte/Gary Hirsch | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:01:10.961 | 28 | 30.178 | |
| 10 | 20 | GT3 | Luca Pirri/Michael Lyons | Ferrari 458 Italia | 01:01:12.674 | 28 | 31.891 | |
| 11 | 25 | GT3 | Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof/Albert von Thurn und Taxis | Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 | 01:01:12.936 | 28 | 32.153 | |
| 12 | 44 | GT3 | Dominik Baumann/Brice Bosi | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:01:16.252 | 28 | 35.469 | |
| 13 | 45 | GT3 | Filip Sladecka/Patrick Hirsch | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:01:25.468 | 28 | 44.685 | |
| 14 | 15 | GT3 | Jerome Demay/Dino Lunardi | Audi R8 LMS | 01:01:26.868 | 28 | 46.085 | |
| 15 | 22 | GT3 | Mark Patterson/Joseph Osborne | Audi R8 LMS | 01:01:32.260 | 28 | 51.477 | |
| 16 | 14 | GT3 | Mikko Eskelinen/Christoffer Nygaard | Ford GT | 01:01:37.810 | 28 | 57.027 | |
| 17 | 2 | GT3 | Petri Lappalainen/Jan Heylen | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 01:01:38.389 | 28 | 57.606 | |
| 18 | 1 | GT3 | Paul van Splunteren/Maxime Soulet | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 01:01:38.782 | 28 | 57.999 | |
| 19 | 11 | GT3 | Leonid Machitski/Tomas Kostka | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:01:40.047 | 28 | 59.264 | |
| 20 | 33 | GT3 | Enzo Ide/Greg Franchi | Audi R8 LMS | 01:01:48.026 | 28 | 01:07.2 | |
| 21 | 23 | GT3 | Zakary Brown/Matthew Bell | Audi R8 LMS | 01:01:51.550 | 28 | 01:10.8 | |
| 22 | 16 | GT3 | Pierre Hirschi/Michael Rossi | Audi R8 LMS | 01:01:58.317 | 28 | 01:17.5 | |
| 23 | 13 | GT3 | Markus Palttala/Stephane Lemeret | Ford GT | 01:02:14.737 | 28 | 01:34.0 | |
| 24 | 32 | GT3 | Tobias Neuser/Didier Andre | Audi R8 LMS | 01:02:46.472 | 28 | 02:05.7 | |
| 25 | 12 | GT3 | Jan Stovicek/Jakub Knoll | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 01:02:47.027 | 28 | 02:06.2 | |
| 26 | 8 | GT3 | Bernard Delhez/Dimitri Enjalbert | Aston Martin DBRS 9 | 01:01:24.734 | 26 | 43.951 | |
| 27 | 51 | GT3 | Daniel Brown/Glynn Geddie | Ferrari 458 Italia | 00:27:36.772 | 13 | 33:04.0 | |
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