Just over three seconds separated the top two finishers in the 2014 Gulf 12 Hours with the top three covered by 5.741 seconds as the #3 AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 of Stephen Wyatt, Michele Rugolo and Davide Rigon held off the #1 Black Falcon Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 of Bernd Schneider, Jereon Bleekemolen and Khaled Al Qubaisi, keeping the trio from winning back-to-back Gulf 12 Hours. The #59 McLaren 650S GT3 of Álvaro Parente, Kevin Éstre and Rob Bell rounded out the podium. It was the debut race for the 650S GT3. The leaders completed 315 laps.
The #2 Black Falcon Mercedes of Richard Muscat, Hubert Haupt and Abdulaziz Al Faisal finished fourth, one lap down with the #4 AF Corse Ferrari of Piergiuseppe Perazzini, Filipe Barreiros and Marco Cioci rounded out the top five, four laps down. The #88 Dragon Racing Ferrari of Sean Walkinshaw, Jordan Grogor and Mohammed Jawa finished sixth, 7.724 seconds back of the #4 Ferrari. The #5 AF Corse Ferrari of Thomas Flohr, Francesco Castellacci and Andrea Rizzoli finished seventh.
The #10 GT Russian Mercedes of Marko Asmer, Alexey Vasilyev and Karim Al Alzhari finished eighth, five laps down. The #17 Absolute Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 of Ho-Pin Tung, Sun Jing Zu and Jian Wie Weng finished ninth, 12 laps down with the #11 Kessel Racing Ferrari of Isaac Tutumlu, Vadim Gitlin and Marco Frezza rounding out the top ten, 13 laps down.
The #33 MRS-GT Racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup of Christian Engelhart, Ralf Bohn, Ilya Melnikov and Siegfried Venema won the Cup class finishing in 12th position, 23 laps down with the #46 Avelon Formula Wolf GB08 of Gianluca Pizzuti, Simon Stoller and Fabio Emanuela winning the CN2 class in 17th, 34 laps down overall.
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