Porsche enjoyed almost the perfect day in Qatar. It added victory in the new LMGT3 class by the Manthey PureRxcing entry to the clean sweep of the overall podium. Klaus Bachler, Joel Sturm and Aliaksandr Malykhin triumphed by just five seconds after nearly 10 hours of racing, but the truth was that the Lithuanian-flagged car was in the pound seats pretty much from the get-go. The car led 235 of the 299 laps the class leaders completed.
Belarusian Malykhin, who lives in Surrey and races under a UK licence, made the difference on Saturday. He is the mandatory bronze-rated driver in the line-up and was the fastest of the ams around the Losail circuit, and by a good
