19-year-old Dries Vanthoor and three-time Le Mans winner Marcel Fassler claimed a narrow victory at the Hungarian round of the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup.
Driving the #5 Audi R8 LMS prepared by the WRT squad, Vanthoor held off a gaggle of five other cars to claim his and Fassler's second victory as a pair.
The duo had already won Saturday afternoon's qualifying race, which put their car on pole for Sunday's 60-minute showpiece.
Fassler maintained his advantage during the first corner scramble, before a safety car period bunched the field on lap two when Martin Kodric spun his McLaren.
That put Fassler under pressure from Christian Engelhart in the Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3, but the former LMP1 star managed to preserve the lead into the mid-race pit stop window.
A quick service from the Audi crew brought Vanthoor out in front, while the Lamborghini dropped to second behind the blue WRT R8 with Jake Dennis behind the wheel.
Dennis, who had taken over from Pieter Schothorst, clung onto the back of Vanthoor but couldn't find a way past around the tight 2.7-mile Hungaroring circuit.
The pair crossed the line half a second apart, while Mirko Bortolotti placed the Lamborghini third, ahead of two other WRT entries.
Championship leaders Maximilian Buhk and Franck Perera finished sixth, having run third during the opening stanza.
However, a slow stop for the HTP Mercedes crew dropped the car out of the top five, allowing Engelhart and Bortolotti to close the gap in the title race to three points with one event remaining.
After a promising start, M-Sport saw both its Bentley Continental GT3s encounter trouble, with neither seeing the chequered flag.
An early mechanical issue put paid to the #7 car's challenge, while contact with an Am-class Ferrari forced the sister #8 machine into retirement.
Pro-Am class honours went to the Rinaldi Racing Ferrari of Daniel Keilwitz and Alexander Mattschull, while Fabian Schiller and Jules Szymkowiak triumphed in Silver Cup.
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