The Norisring street circuit in Nuremberg, Germany. The venue for the latest rounds of DTM and DTM Trophy. This place has a special atmosphere when the racers come.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norisring
Read all about the circuit. You will find it a fascinating place. The races there took place, two weekends ago on July 2nd and 3rd. In the main DTM championship, race one pole went the way of South African Kelvin van der Linde aboard the #3 Team Abt Sportline Audi R8. The winning driver in the first race of the weekend equaling a duration of 55 minutes + one lap was Thomas Preining, the Austrian, taking the first ever win in DTM for Porsche AG. Preining driving the #24 KUS Team Bernhard Porsche 911 GT3R. He also scored fastest lap of the motor race in race one on the way to victory.
In the weekend's second event, Lamborghini took pole with Grasser Racing Team and their star driver, Italian Mirko Bortolotti. Bortolotti and the raging bull looking to break through. In the race though, the Prancing Horse of Ferrari shone through. Brazilian Ferrari driver Felipe Fraga started on the pole for the Red Bull AF Corse team. AF Corse, Ferrari specialists in endurance GT racing, have two teams represented in the DTM in 2022. Not only that. Fraga dominated. He went on to win the second event of the weekend as well. So, Porsche, and Ferrari each had a chance at the top step of the podium in Nuremburg.
Race 1: #24 Thomas Preining AUT. KUS Team Bernhard Porsche 911 GT3R
Race 2: #74 Felipe Fraga BRA. AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo
Not to be outdone, the DTM Trophy also had their two 30-minute races for the GT4 cars. American driver John Paul (J.P.) Southern scored pole for both of the races aboard his #77 Team Eastside Motorsports Audi R8 LMS GT4 Evo. Walkenhorst Motorsports BMW M4 GT4, car #34 driven by German Theo Oeverhaus was triumphant in race one. Oeverhaus also uncorked fastest lap of the motor race during that event.
J.P. Southern, meanwhile, he was still on a roll in qualifying and as mentioned, Audi #77 scored both poles. Southern set fastest lap of race two, but he nor Oeverhaus, were a match for Germany's Louis Henkefend. Henkefend won race two aboard his #13 Project 1 BMW M4 GT4.
Race 1: #34 Theo Oeverhaus GER. Walkenhorst Motorsports BMW M4 GT4
Race 2: #13 Louis Henkefend GER. Project 1 BMW M4 GT4
Two different teams and tw different drivers. But a clean sweep for the BMW brand in DTM Trophy at the Norisring. DTM and DTM Trophy are currently on their summer break. We shall next see them in action at the fabled Nurburgring circuit in the Eiffel Mountains on the Grand Prix course at the end of August, the weekend of the 27th and the 28th of August. We'll talk to you from the Nurburgring as DTM and DTM Trophy reach the halfway mark of their 2022 racing campaigns. For now, so long, everybody. Take care.
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