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Götz wins chaos races on the Norisring and becomes DTM

The starting position before the start of the race was clear: Liam Lawson was on the first place of the table and started on top of the pole position. Even with a failure of the New Zealand, the pursuers Kelvin van der Linde (starting place two) and Maximilian Götz (take place eight) could only pass by victory on the leader. This scenario seemed unrealistic - but already in the first curve van der Linde paved the way for it. The 25-year-old drove Lawson directly into a curve one in the car and took the favorite practically out of the race - even if this was then desperately tried to save his car with several pit stops. The native South African van der Linde cared in the interview at Sat. 1 that the brake was not warm. I did not want to drive him, that was not my job. He conceded a passage and 5-second penalty for the offense. The leach-carrying Lawson was visibly disappointed after the bitter race. He is very sorry for his team that stood behind me. Again and again I will turn off fr...

Van der Linde wins at the Nürburgring

Van der Linde Rast direction overall victory in the new DTM . The Audi pilot won on Saturday the seventh season race on the Nürburgring and continued to expand its leadership in the classification. Van der Linde prevailed before Luca Pride (Brachbach) and the Swiss Philip Ellis (both Mercedes). The South African celebrated his third victory this year, for the third time he also brought the maximum yield of 28 points: On Saturday morning he had also retracted the three counter for the pole position. In the race, Van der Linde also benefited from weaker achievements of its first pursuers. Maximilian Götz (Uffenheim) missed in the Mercedes as the fifth podium , Liam Lawson (New Zealand) in Ferrari did not manage the points. Van der Linde lies with now 129 meters clearly before Götz (84). On Sunday, the second race in the Eifel (13.30 pm / Sat.1) and the overall eighth of the year the season reaches the season. The leader drove into the points in so far and only missed the top four. ...