Up until the ninth lap, David Saelens resisted the pressure from last year's Bahrain victor, Richard Westbrook from London, but finally had to relinquish second position to the Briton and settle for third. Westbrook also competes with a new team this season: The Monaco-based Racing Team Morellato together with Porsche Zentrum Essen contest the Porsche Michelin Supercup for the first time.

Taking up the sprint from seventh Fabrice Walfisch fought his way towards the front of the field. The Frenchman successfully fended off a determined attack from Patrick Huisman to take the flag as fourth. Richard Lietz from Austria started from fourth on the grid to claim eighth after 12 laps. Fading tyres towards the end phase hindered a better result. Lietz maintained that his suspension set-up for the race was possibly out of sync with the slicks.

Bad luck plagued new-comer Olivier Maximin (France). At his first outing in the series, the Frenchman qualified his Porsche on eleventh position. By the sixth lap had already gained four places. The Frenchman then took a sip from his water bottle: Whilst braking for the hairpin at over 250 kilometres per hour a jet of water shot out of the bottle causing Maximin to choke. The result: a spin and a coughing fit. From position 14 the GT specialist crossed the finish line back in eleventh place.

Ex F1 driver Luciano Burti (Brazil) was sidelined in lap one with a faulty clutch.

Uwe Alzen (winner): “I thought I'd forgotten how to race! That was a great start for our SPS team and me. I put David under pressure right from the get-go. He made a mistake and I took advantage of it, but not without him fighting. Once I had passed him Richard Westbrook suddenly loomed large in my mirror. Only towards the end did he back-off a little.”

Richard Westbrook (second): “What a fantastic start for a new team and me! Our race set-up was very conservative, maybe somewhat too careful to attack Uwe. Although, unlike me, he had a fresh set of slicks on his car while I was on used tyres from qualifying. I had one advantage over David. His car seemed to become more jittery with each lap. During the entire race I had one eye on the championship, so I didn’t take too much of a risk. This year the field is incredibly strong, so every point counts.”

David Saelens (third): “I am happy with the outcome. My team and I did the maximum. I got some oversteer after a while, and Uwe overtook me when we exited a corner, and my car came a little bit sideways.”

Fabrice Walfisch (fourth): “Thanks Patrick. That was a super fight: hard but fair. My tyres had already begun to fade after four, five laps so I had no chance to close the gap to the top trio. All I could do was wait and hope that they would make a mistake.”

Patrick Huisman (fifth): “That was tough. At one stage Fabrice touched my car and I slid off the track. A shame, I had the speed to stay at the top. Still, the points are important.“

Race result:
1. Uwe Alzen (D), PZ Koblenz – Team SPS, 12 laps in 25:17.914min (=153.442 km/h)
2. Richard Westbrook (GB), Racing Team Morellato PZ Essen, 1.888secs behind
3. David Saelens (B), Kadach Racing Team, 3.855
4. Fabrice Walfisch (F), Kadach Racing Team, 7.759
5. Patrick Huisman (NL), Farnbacher Racing, 8.689
6. Dirk Werner (D), Farnbacher Racing, 9.042
7. Christian Menzel (D), tolimit Motorsport, 10.897
8. Richard Lietz (A), tolimit Motorsport, 12.943
9. Jan Seyffarth (D), UPS Porsche-Junior Team, 13.026
10. Lance David Arnold (D), UPS Porsche-Junior Team, 19.353
11. Tim Bergmeister (D), Konrad Motorsport, 20.924
12. Alessandro Zampedri (I), Lechner Racing School Team, 21.041
13. Robert van den Berg (NL), Harders Plaza Racing, 21.586
14. Olivier Maximin (F), Racing Team Morellato PZ Essen, 21.753
15. Damian Faulkner (IRL), Lechner Racing School Team, 23.037
16. Geoffroy Horion (B), Mühlner Motorsport, 23.736
17. David Dermont (B), Mühlner Motorsport, 31.552
18. Cyrille Sauvage (I), Lechner Racing School Team, 34.226
19. Nicolas Armindo (F), Priority Racing Team Lechner, 36.696
20. Simon Frederiks (NL), Jetstream Motorsport PZ Essen, 45.062
21. Salman Al-Khalifa (BRN), Porsche AG, 46.220
22. Jörg Stephan (D), PZ Koblenz – Team SPS, 48.765
23. Fahed Al Musalam (BRN), Porsche AG, 52.121
24. Jaber Al-Khalifa (BRN), Morellato Stars Team, 54.718
25. Chris Mattheus (MC), Harders Plaza Racing, 55.157
26. Philip Beyrer (CH), Jetstream Motorsport PZ Essen, 1 Runde
27. Georg Braun (D), MRS-Team PZM, DNF

Not classified:

Luciano Burti (BRA), Morellato Stars Team, 0 laps
Duncan Huisman (NL), MRS-Team PZM, 0 laps
Michael Schrey (D), Konrad Motorsport, 4 laps

Fastest lap:

Uwe Alzen, 2:05.611min = 155.107 kmh in lap 4

Uwe Alzen (D), PMSC Bahrain 2006

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