The Scuderia GT driver had an easy run to the first chicane as Manuela Gostner (CDP-MP Racing), who was alongside in second place on the grid, had to start from the pit lane.
So it was left to Ernst Kirchmayr (Baron Motorsport), Axel Sartingen (Lueg Sportivo-Herter Motorsport), Claudio Schiavoni (Scuderia Niki-Iron Lynx) and Thomas Gostner (CDP-MP Racing) to offer some opposition to Engstler, but it was a lost cause as the German was setting such a pace that his followers were outdistanced to the point that there was a 12 second gap between first and second.
