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FIA GT1 Sachsenring |
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The fifth round of the FIA GT1 World Championship took place on the Sachsenring in the eastern part of |
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Germany. 45.000 spectators found their way to the mini-Nordschleife and enjoyed a packed programme |
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featuring the always exciting GT1 races as well as the ADAC GT Masters, ATS Formel 3 Cup, ADAC Procar, |
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Formel Masters and the Mini Challenge. |
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FIA GT1 |
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Frédéric Makowiecki en Maxime Martin claimed an impressive victory during the qualifying race on Saturday. |
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The French-Belgian combination started the race from the 14th place on the grid. Pole sitters Nicky |
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Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager had to settle for a seventh place. Clivio Piccione and Stef Dusseldorp |
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finished second. Especially after the mandatory pit stop Dusseldorp closed in on the Ford of Martin but in |
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the end the Belgian driver managed to create a seven seconds gap. Aston Martin scored a double podium |
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with the third place of Stefan Mücke and Darren Turner. Due to a spin of Nicky Catsburg during the 5th lap |
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of the race, his as well as Mike Hezemans race was sadly over. |
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The second race on Sunday became a prey for Hexis AMR drivers Andrea Piccini and Christian Hohenadel. |
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The Italian-German combination finished two seconds in front of the All Inkl. Com Lamborghini of Nicky |
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Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager. Young Driver AMR scored their second consecutive podium of the |
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weekend with a third place scored by Darren Turner and Stefan Mücke. Frédéric Makowiecki started the |
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race from pole, Stef Dusseldorp started besides him from the second place on the grid. Both drivers |
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touched in the very first corner, resulting for Dusseldorp in an unplanned kitty litter experience. Stefan |
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Mücke took the opportunity to take the lead in front of the Aston Martin of Christian Hohenadel. Once |
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again the very first seconds of the race proved to be chaotic. Tomas Enge touched Karl Wendlinger’s |
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Lamborghini who spun. Team mate Max Nilsson couldn’t avoid the spinning Lambo and slammed into the |
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Italian cat. Due to the chaos the safety car had to be deployed . In lap 5 the lights went green again, |
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both Mücke and Hohenadel pulled away. Maxime Martin had to retire due to a flat tire and damaged |
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suspension. Marc Basseng suffered from a problem with one of the rear tires just seconds after the |
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mandatory pitsstop and had to retire. Team mate Nicky Pastorelli managed to pass Stefan Mücke and took |
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second place. Andrea Piccini finally won the championship race in front of Nicky Pastorelli and Darren Turner. |
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ADAC GT Masters |
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Luca Ludwig and Christopher Mies claimed a maiden victory during the first race on Saturday. The Abt Audi |
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combination drove an impressive race. They finished one second ahead of their Abt team mates Christer |
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Jöns and Jens Klingmann. Sebastian Asch and Michael Ammermüller finished third in their Porsche 911 GT3- |
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R. Robert Renauer crashed heavily with his Mercedes SLS AMG just seconds after the start, being hit by the |
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Mercedes of Christiaan Frankenhout. Philip Geipel was also hit by the Mercedes of Renauer what resulted in |
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an early retirement for both drivers. Luckily Renauer was unhurt. |
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During the second race on Sunday another Abt Audi was very succesfull. Christopher Haase and Andreas |
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Simonsen finished first in front of the Audi R8 driven by Porsche Supercup Champion Rene Rast and Stefan |
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Landmann. Christopher Mies and Luca Ludwig managed to claim the second consecutive podium of the |
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weekend by finishing third. Minutes before the second race a shower treated spectators and drivers |
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changing the track in a very slippery roller coaster. Initially the Team Engstler BMW made the best tire |
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choice starting the race on full wets. Alex Margaritis managed to create an impressive 35 seconds gap. |
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After the mandatory pit stop however team mate Dino Lunardi had to retire due to technical problems. |
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Christopher Haase and Andreas Simonsen took the overall lead and crossed the finish line first. |
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Besides FIA GT1 and ADAC Masters the Sachsenring also hosted the ATS Formel 3 Cup, Formel Masters, |
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ADAC Procar as well as the Mini Challenge. |
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Reports in Dutch can be found here: |
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Sportdome.nl : GT1: Piccini en Hohenadel zegevieren op de Sachsenring |
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Sportdome.nl : GT Masters: Ludwig en Mies pakken eerste overwinning |
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Sportdome.nl : GT Masters: Nederlands succes op de Sachsenring |
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More photographs of this event can be found here : |
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