Day: September 24, 2017

The Audi dominance continues

Jens Jensen

For the second day in a row we had Jamie Green in Pole Position with Rene Rast in second. Marco Witmman was the best BMW in P3 ahead of Mike Rockenfeller and Nico Müller in two more Audis ahead of Gary Paffett as the best Mercedes man. Championship leader Mattias Ekström started P8. Local hero Lucas Auer was starting from dead last – but was only 0,727 of a second slower than Green on Pole Position. When the light went out, things played out quite okay at the front of…

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Awesome race at Spa Francorchamps

Jens Jensen

The 35 cars in the European Le Mans Series delivered an awesome race at Spa Francorchamps, which held the fifth Round of this year’s championship. The drama already happened in Turn One, where Leo Roussel in the G-Drive Racing #22 outbraked himself, and almost hit teammate Henrik Hedman in DragonSpeed #21. The #22 ran wide out of the first turn, and instead it was United Autosports #32 jumping into the lead ahead of Graff #39. By Speed Factory #5 had a solo spin in Turn 1, but Tim Müller was…

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High Class Racing facing a difficult race

Jens Jensen

High Class Racing #49 from Denmark is facing a tough battle for the European Le Mans Series race today at Spa Francorchamps. The team consisting of Anders Fjordbach and Dennis Andersen haven’t had much luck so far this weekend. The weekends started with some ok times in the first free practice, but as the track went faster and faster, they couldn’t keep up with the tempo, that the oppositions were able to do. Dennis Andersen was additionally hit by a competitor in FP2, resulting in some frontal damage to the…

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Laziness can be expensive

Jens Jensen

People often try to take the easiest route through life, but some times it can be expensive, if you take a bit too creative short cut. That was certainly a lesson learned for M.Racing – YMR #18 driver Romano Ricci, when he was caught on a motorbike, when he was having a look at the Spa Francorchamps track on Thursday. Normally drivers walk or use their bicycles around the track, to check the braking points, curbs etc etc, but Ricci went for a motorbike as his way of transportation. The…

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