March 10, 2026 | News | GT Winter Series
Igor Klaja of PTT Racing also came to Aragon on 126 points. However, with only two cars in the Cup 2 Class for Porsche 992 Cup cars, Klaja would only be able to score a maximum of 36 points across the weekend at Aragon; conversely, his rivals in GT3 had 60 points available. The first race of the weekend would be held on Saturday evening, in wet conditions. Guy Albag, who raced in the 2025 Formula Winter Series, would line-up for his GT Winter Series debut on pole position. He would be at the wheel of the #64 Antonelli Motorsport Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo. Juta Racing returned to the grid for the first time since Portimão, with Arunas Geciauskas lining up the Audi in second.
Kenneth Heyer lined-up fourth in the #11 SR Mercedes, while title rival Simon Orange started seventh.
Albag held the lead as the race began, but would soon start falling back, losing out to Geciauskas at turn 12 on lap one. Further back, from seventh, Simon Orange was trying to move up the field. At turn seven on lap one, he tried to get to the inside of Przemyslaw Bienkowski (PTT Mercedes). As Bienkowski turned in, the pair collided, and both drivers spun to the back but continued.
Elsewhere in the GT3 class, Finn Zulauf was quickly working through the field in the #19 LIQUI MOLY Team Engstler Lamborghini. Soon, Zulauf had worked his way into second place, and gave chase to the Juta Audi of Geciauskas.
Two of the drivers Zulauf had passed – Albag and Sendom Racing Team’s Seweryn Mazur – began fighting hard for third. Under significant scrutiny, Albag went wide at turn 12, tried to rejoin, and collided with Mazur, damaging the Mercedes’ suspension. The car was too damaged to continue; Albag was out of the race, and the Safety Car was briefly deployed to recover the Antonelli entry. Arunas Geciauskas received a stroke of luck as the race resumed; Michael Fischbaum – a lap down in his Auto Sport Racing Lamborghini – was between the leader and Finn Zulauf. Unable to move by until the start/finish line, Zulauf lost several seconds to Geciauskas. The other battles were compacted together; Kenneth Heyer was challenging Seweryn Mazur for third. Under the German’s scrutiny, Mazur ran deep into the turn 16 hairpin, subsequently spinning himself out on the front of the Mercedes as he took an unusual line on corner exit.
Heyer therefore inherited third, while Simon Orange completed a successful move back through the order to finish just behind his title rival in fourth. At the front, Zulauf worked hard to catch Gesciauskas, but it wasn’t quite enough, and the Lithuanian racer claimed his first-ever GT Winter Series triumph.
RACE TWO
The second race of the weekend – held in dry conditions – saw Marcus Clutton on pole position for Orange Racing by JMH. Clutton came into the race feeling the pressure of an important race. With the points gap now out to eight in favour of Heyer and Härtling, outscoring the SR Mercedes was key. Clutton would be joined on the front row by Felix Hirsiger in the Engstler Lamborghini, while Jay Mo Härtling lined up directly behind Clutton from third.
As the race began, Clutton moved into the race lead, and Härtling followed him past Felix Hirsiger. Over the opening laps, Clutton was fast out of the blocks, and was 1.3 seconds clear of Härtling after the first lap. Further back, on lap two, Seweryn Mazur went straight on at turn 14 with a stuck throttle. The Polish driver’s race came to an end with the car far removed from the track, thus racing could continue around the track. While Clutton’s early pace was impressive at the front, Jay Mo Härtling would soon start to reel the McLaren in. The German racer resolutely sat in the mirrors of the leading car, until a poor run through the corkscrew with six minutes to go. A puff of smoke emanated from the Mercedes at the bottom of the hill, as the pace dropped off. By turn 14, the #11 car was forced into limping home; the car had developed a wheel nut issue.
In the closing laps, Clutton’s paced dropped off alarmingly. The JMH McLaren would win the race, but only by six tenths over Felix Hirsiger. Post-race, Clutton confessed: “My car didn’t have much fuel”. Arunas Geciauskas finished third in the GT3 class and overall, while Jay Mo Härtling scored points for sixth in GT3, having completed 75 per cent race distance. Even with those points, the title battle had shifted; Clutton and Simon Orange went into race three leading the overall standings by two points.
RACE THREE
For the 60-minute pitstop race, the championship battle was once again represented on the front row of the grid. Kenneth Heyer would start the #11 SR Motorsport Mercedes from pole, alongside Simon Orange in the #67 Orange Racing by JMH McLaren.
The top two remained in grid order as the race began, while Seweryn Mazur spun from sixth at turn one. The Sendom Lamborghini continued in the race from the back of the field. From third on the grid, Finn Zulauf swept around the outside of Simon Orange at turn two, and would soon begin pressuring for the lead in the Engstler Lamborghini. On the second lap, Guy Albag also found his way past Simon Orange, who looked to be playing a pacifist role. On the second lap, Heyer drifted wide, allowing Zulauf to power through into the race lead and begin building a gap. As the Lamborghini powered away, and Rossocorsa’s Cup 1 Ferrari of Samuele Buttarelli moved up to second overall, all eyes were on the championship rivals behind. By the end of the first stint, Simon Orange was in fifth ahead of Kenneth Heyer, having swept around the outside of the first corner to take track position. And, after the pitstops, the two GT3s remained close, now with Marcus Clutton and Jay Mo Härtling at the helm of their respective cars. Over thew course of the stint, the pair would catch an entertaining battle for second between Guy Albag and Juta Racing’s Arunas Geciauskas. Gradually, both Clutton and Härtling moved by both parties, with Clutton thankful to catch each car at an opportune moment. At the front of the field, Finn Zulauf and Felix Hirsiger had amassed a lead of over 25 seconds, dominating the race on their way to victory. Marcus Clutton brought home the McLaren in second, extending he and Simon Orange’s points lead over third-placed Heyer and Härtling to four points.
Geciauskas finished fourth, after Guy Albag dropped away towards the end of the race. Rossocorsa’s Giacomo Rinaldo and Samuele Buttarelli finished eighth overall after running second early on, losing time to a long pitstop during the driver change window. In the uncontested Cup 1 class, the pair scored all three victories. Igor Klaja won all three races in the Cup 2 class, keeping his #7 PTT Porsche in the overall title hunt.
As the GT Winter Series field heads to Barcelona, Orange and Clutton sit on 178 points in the overall championship, with Heyer and Härtling on 174. Klaja is the only other driver close enough to challenge the GT3 line-ups, on 162 points.
