Excitement from start to finish

There would be a hell of a fight when Toyota Gazoo Racing had one car at the front of the field, and another one at the back, after #7 got a penalty post qualifying yesterday. Which meant that they would start the race from the pitlane one lap after everyone else. We already lost three cars before the race even started. The two CEFC TRSM Racing cars weren’t there on the starting grid, since they apparently had some problems with a sponsor payment. On another note, DragonSpeed #10 couldn’t manage…

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Start of the DTM season

The DTM season got off to its start at the Hockenheim, where the first round was held. Gary Paffett had grabbed the first Pole Position of the year ahead of Marco Wittmann, Timo Glock and Lucas Auer. So it was Mercedes-AMG ahead of  BMW, BMW, and Mercedes. The qualifying had been a huge disappointment for the defending Champions, Audi Sport, who had last year’s DTM Champion Rene Rast as the best driver – in P9. Mattias Ekström had announced his retirement from the DTM, but Audi Sport chose to give…

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Broken legs for Fittipaldi

Pietro Fittipaldi’s FIA World Endurance Championship debut at the 6 Hours of Spa Francorchamps ended abruptly during the qualifying. The 21 year-old Brazilian crashed at the Eau Rouge corner at high speed, and he hit the tire barrier nose first, where it came to a stop. The white DragonSpeed BR1 Engineering #10 took the impact very well, but the front of the car was demolished, as it should do as such impacts. The doctors were on site very shortly after, and he was removed from the car cautiously, as a…

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