The very first lead, then a crash, a certifying abortion and the pole is gone once again: Felipe Fraga triggered a stir in the last DTM qualifier of the 2022 season at the Hockenheimring!
A couple of minutes from completion of the 20- minute session, the AF Corse Ferrari driver set the leading rating with a 1: 36.625– then went off the track coming out of the very first corner and smashed his Ferrari into the barriers a!
Race control chose not to continue certifying with the staying time of 02: 25 minutes. It continued to be amazing due to the fact that: Fraga’s fastest lap was not counted, which implied that Rene Rast took top place outright and got a lead!
The three-time DTM champ from Abt-Audi gets 3 extra points for the pole and keeps his narrow champion possibilities. “We wished to go out early so we didn’t have the danger of another driver having a mishap and certifying being suspended,” stated Rast.
Due to Fraga’s mishap, some motorists never ever had the chance to set another speed– which makes the defend the title much more interesting! Champion leader Sheldon van der Linde (Schubert-BMW) did not exceed 6th location. Title opposition Lucas Auer (Winward-Mercedes) even needed to hang on to eleventh put on the grid!
Because of his success in Saturday’s race, Auer got 25 kgs of additional weight in his Winward Mercedes. Sheldon van der Linde, 2nd on Saturday, should begin the race with 15 kg additional. “It’s going to be difficult for us after certifying,” Auer stated. “It will be a hard race and there is just complete attack.”
DTM 2022 table: beginning position prior to the last
Starting position in the champion battle prior to the last race of the 2022 DTM season (today at 1: 30 pm on the live ticket on Motorsport-Magazin. com: Sheldon van der Linde leads the table with 149 points. Lucas Auer (147 points) stays 2nd with a deficit of 2 points.
Rene Rast now has 131 points– 18 less than the South African. Mirko Bortolotti is now formally out of the champion race with 121 points. The driver can still get an optimum of 26 points (25 for the win, 1 for the fastest lap) in today’s race.
Top 10 after canceled certifying: 1st Rene Rast, 2nd Clemens Schmid, 3rd Marius Zug, 4th Marco Wittmann, 5th Nico Müller (+2 beginning positions due to grid charge), 6th Sheldon van der Linde, 7. Dev Gore, 8. Christian Engelhart, 9. Maximilian Götz,10 Leon Koehler
Qualifying half-time: The Football Audi leads
A surprise at the break in certifying: Marius Zug topped the timesheets with his football-styled Attempto-Audi with a finest time of 1: 37.606 The DTM debutant was followed by Clemens Schmid, Marco Wittmann, Rene Rast and Nico Müller in 2nd to 5th locations.
Sheldon van der Linde was 6th up until a tire modification, 0.9 seconds behind leader Zug. Lucas Auer followed in eleventh location, one lap canceled due to a track limitation fault. The 2 chauffeurs of Abt Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller together with Mirko Bortolotti did without a quick lap, it appears to minimize the tires.
Only 20 of the 27 cars began
After lots of crashes in Saturday’s race, just 20 of the 27 cars began in today’s certifying session. David Schumacher (Winward-Mercedes), Dennis Olsen (SSR-Porsche), Nick Cassidy (AF-Corse-Ferrari), Rolf Ineichen (GRT-Lamborghini), Thomas Preining (Bernhard-Porsche), Mikael Grenier (GruppeM-Mercedes) and Arjun Maini (HRT-Mercedes) was required to desert the last after their cars were terribly harmed and Olsen did not get clearance from the medical delegate.
DTM: Several BoP modifications
There were lots of modifications in the efficiency balance right away that are currently in result for today’s certifying session. The Audi R8 LMS GT3 block was extended by 1 mm, while the BMW M4 GT3 needed to keep up 0.041 lower increase pressure. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 needed to load 5kg, while the Ferrari 488 GT3 and Porsche 911 GT3 R were each enabled to eliminate 5kg from the automobile.
