The first race ran relatively smoothly with only Justin McMillen experiencing a sensor failure, losing his brakes. Fortunately he was able to pull the car up without issue; at least that’s how it appeared from the outside of the cockpit.

Klien was the first of the front runners to make his pitstop and did so as the pitlane opened about 20 minutes in. Klark pitted a lap later but with the compulsory pitstop time incorporating parity, Quinn’s pitstop was 23 seconds shorter (111 seconds to 88 seconds).

At that moment though, Mark Griffith in the IVECO Ginetta G50 GT4 had a major engine failure and brought out the safety car. Like in Bathurst, the safety car would cause choas.

Baird and Lago were able to take advantage of the timing of the safety car and their place on the track to complete their stops and gain an advantage on the field.

With the safety car in, Baird and Lago were 1-2 but encountered traffic, which would have dire consequences for Rod Salmon’s Audi when he was clipped by Baird. A while later something failed at the rear of the car and Salmon spun at the flat out turn eight.

‘“I couldn’t believe it," Salmon said. "I felt like I had the hand of god on me, because I was just heading down the track backwards at 200km/h in a straight line and I thought great, I’m not going to be ‘one of those’ turn eight casualties. Then he must have realised I was an atheist, and I rolled backwards into the wall.”

That crunch into the wall put him out for the rest of the weekend.

It brought out the safety car and left the field with under 10 minutes of green racing until the checkered flag would fall. Baird would hold off Lago and Klark Quinn for the win. Klien would finish fourth.

The second race was a half-hour affair on Sunday morning and again Baird would dominate. Klien was racing well, competing with Barid up front before a late-race problem sent him backwards. He was unable to fend off Klark Quinn for second and finished third.

Quinn was happy with his weekend despite struggling with late race grip.

“All last year we were struggling with grip - especially late in the race, and already, it looks like we’re going to have the same struggles moving forward this year," he said. "The first 15 minutes or so we’re strong, but after that it starts to drift off and the understeer gets worse.

“I know Porsche are working on it, it’s not just us, so I expect once the European and U.S. Championships kick into gear and there’s more current spec cars running laps, that they’ll be on top of it pretty quickly.”

Roger Lago was the great story from the weekend. After his Lamborghini was heavily damaged at Bathurst for the third time a year, he managed to jump in a similar car and fought hard for a second and fourth over the weekend.

Quinn now sits in the title lead with 138 points from Baird (133) and Lago (98).

Round three takes place at Phillip Island on May 24-26.