The City of Curitiba last weekend saw a double victory for the Lamborghini Gallardo driven by Paulo “Boni” Bonifácio and Alceu Feldmann in the second round of the inaugural Brazilian FIA GT3 Championship. It was a perfect weekend for Lamborghini team, after claiming both pole positions they won the third and the fourth rounds of this new series, winning their dispute against the Ferrari F430 and Dodge Viper. The pilots Boni and Feldmann are still the leaders of the championship, and are now nine points ahead of the Dodge Viper Team of the pilots Andreas Mattheis and “Xandy” Negrão.

The contest began on a sunny Sunday morning, and the third stage of Brasil FIA GT3 Championship started with great doses of emotion. On the second lap the Ferrari F430 with Renato Cattalini behind the wheel stopped when it started burning, the fire extinguisher of the car was not able to stop the fire and the safety car had to get out on the track. At the restart the Lamborghini of Boni immediately started to open up an advantage over the Dodge Viper of the Medley Team steered by Andreas Mattheis. In the intermediate positions the dispute was ferocious between Lico Kaesemodel in his Porsche 997 GT3 Cup and the yellow Ferrari F430 Rafael Derani, while at their back the quarrel between Amílcar Collares and Abramo Mazzochi in their Vipers was ended by an audacious overtaking maneuver by Mazzochi during the ninth lap.

Meanwhile Boni and his Lamborghini Gallardo kept registering the fastest laps and increasing his advantage over Mattheis up to 3.9 seconds after twelve laps. The teams started to pit stop to change the pilots and Derani was the first to give his Ferrari to Cláudio Ricci while after him Collares passed the black Viper to Fábio Casagrande. Boni stopped after sixteen laps and Alceu Feldmann took on the Gallardo while on the twentieth lap Andreas Mattheis was replaced by the experienced ex-stock car pilot Xandy Negrão in the Dodge Viper. Lico Kaesemodel was the last one to do the obligatory change being replaced by Antonio Hermann at the cockpit of Porsche 997 GT3.

Then a flat tyre on Feldmann’s Lamborghini took him into the pits and as a result he came to the track in the fifth position. Meanwhile Xandy Negrão in his Viper overtook Hermann’s Porsche and he seem to be on course to be the winner of the race but suddenly a collision of Marcelo Fernandes’s F430 and Casagrande’s Viper change all the situation. With the entrance of the safety car and the regrouping of the cars, at the restart, and with just nine minutes to the end, it was the opportunity for Feldmann that overtake every car ahead of him including the leader Xandy Negrão and winning - in the most spectacular fashion - the race.