18 June 2017 Archives

Debut win for Rene Rast

Sunday June 18th, 2017Wednesday June 28th, 2017 Jens Jensen

Rene Rast claimed his maiden win, when this weekend’s second race was run at the Hungaroring in Hungary. The German had claimed the weekend’s, and in fact his career’s second DTM Pole Position, and was leading almost from start to finish. The qualifying had once again been an Audi domination, where only Marco Wittmann was the only BMW in top-6, starting second. So the race result was quite dominated by Audi, with Mattias Ekström in second, while Maxime Martin in BMW finished third. Nico Müller and Jamie Green followed him…

Dramatic 24 Hours of Le Mans so far

Sunday June 18th, 2017Monday June 19th, 2017 Jens Jensen

It has been a super dramatic 24 hours of Le Mans so far. The legendary race is always full of surprises, and this year’s race is not an exception. A lot of things happened in the race, which we will talk about in our in-depth report later, but here is a little summary of the cars that had to retire, until now with four hours left of the race. On the first lap Toyota Gazoo Racing #9, driven by Nico Lapierre, collided with ByKolles Racing Team #4. It caused a…