DTM Update: Lausitzring

This is your latest DTM update, from the Lausitzring, the Eurospeedway Lausitz in Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany.  This is the place which lent it's name to Johann Sebastian Bach's famous concertos.  In use this weekend is the Grand Prix circuit with the banked first turn, and that configuration.  In DTM race one, for 55 minutes + 1 lap of the circuit, the pole man was Lucas Auer for Mercedes-AMG Team Winward in their #22 car.  Schubert Motorsports and BMW would bring the first victory to DTM for the new M4 GT3 at the hands of South African Sheldon van der Linde in car #31.  He also scored fastest lap of the motor race.  

Race 1 Winner: #31 Sheldon van der Linde     ZA     Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3

In race two, second verse same as the first as van der Linde breaks out the broom and sweeps the whole weekend at the Lausitzring!  Oh, and by the way, the only thing he did not get was fastest lap.  He was denied that honor in race two by German Maro Engel at the wheel of the #88 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 and the seasoned endurance GT3 campaigners from Hong Kong.  

Race 2 Winner: #31 Sheldon van der Linde     ZA     Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3

Not to be outdone, DTM Trophy for the GT4 class cars opened their 2022 campaign at the Lausitzring, the third season of DTM trophy which started in 2020 and ran alongside the old Class 1 touring cars we remember from DTM so fondly.  Germany's Tim Heinemann was on a roll the whole weekend and very nearly pulled off the same feat as Sheldon van der Linde in the DTM GT3 series on this weekend at the Lausitzring.  Heinemann had pole, fastest lap, and the race victory in race one aboard his #90 for the longest team name in the series.  

Heinemann takes to victory his #90 Toyota Gazoo Racing Germany powered by Ring Racing Toyota Supra GT4!

Race 1 Winner: #90 Tim Heinemann     GER.     Toyota Gazoo Racing Germany powered by Ring Racing Toyota Supra GT4

Uh um.  That's a mouthful.  I shall need a glass of water after that, thank you.  

Heinemann continued his domination and his winning ways in race two of the weekend in Brandenburg.  Only to have fastest lap snatched from him by Brazilian driver Thiago Vivacqua aboard the second of the three German entered Heide-Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT4 Evo's.  

Race 2 Winner: #90 Tim Heinemann     GER.     Toyota Gazoo Racing Germany powered by Ring Racing Toyota Supra GT4

...And there you have it.  Lausitzring, done and dusted.  Next up for both DTM proper and DTM trophy, we say buon giorno to the Emilia Romagna region of Italy at the fabled Autodromo Enzo E Dino Ferrari in Imola, Italy, on Father's Day weekend.  See you there, everybody.  So long, for now.