BMW manufacturing facility driver Rossi completed runner-up within the second of the 2 GTWCE Dash Cup races on the British venue aboard the WRT BMW M4 GT3 he shared with Maxime Martin.
Rossi, who’s in his second full season of automotive racing after calling time on his two-wheel profession, completed slightly below 4 seconds behind the successful Attempto-run Audi R8 LMS GT3 shared by Ricardo Feller and Mattia Drudi on the finish of the one-hour race.
Martin began third of their BMW and pitted out of that place.
Rossi emerged from the tyre stops that adopted a short security automotive interval in second behind Drudi, who had moved up from sixth earlier than the stops.
He initially had reigning champion and team-mate Charles Weerts on his tail in one of many WRT sister automobiles earlier than establishing some respiration house.
Weerts, who shared his BMW with fellow three-time Dash Cup champion Dries Vanthoor, got here again at Rossi within the closing levels, taking the chequered flag simply zero.8s behind.
Martin and Rossi benefitted from issues encountered by the 2 Audis that ran 1-2 within the early levels.
#46 Crew WRT, BMW M4 GT3: Valentino Rossi, Maxime Martin
Picture by: SRO
The Sainteloc entry through which Christopher Mies led the primary 23 of the 41 laps misplaced important seconds in the course of the pitstops on the handover to Gregoire Demoustier, who briefly took to the gravel at Sheene Curve on his out-lap.
Christopher Haase had shadowed them within the early levels aboard his Cometoyou Racing, which additionally misplaced time within the pits.
Lucas Legeret ended up fifth within the Cometoyou automotive, holding off a late problem from Raffaele Marciello within the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG GT3 through which he had gained the opening race at Manufacturers along with Timur Boguslavskiy.
Boguslavskiy had certified solely 19th for race two and made little progress within the opening part of the race, earlier than a super-fast pitstop by ASP set Marciello up for his late cost.
Marciello had dominated the primary half of race one, increase a lead of eight seconds earlier than pitting.
The benefit held by Boguslavskiy stretched out to 15s after the stops courtesy of an issue for the Emil Frey Ferrari 296 GT3 through which Albert Costa had led the chase of Marciello.
Feller was capable of shut down the hole within the Attempto Audi, however simply did not catch the Boguslavskiy and ended up six tenths down on the end.
