Day: July 8, 2017

BMW and Porsche battle at VLN4

Jens Jensen

Round 4 of this year’s VLN Championship, named 48. Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy, was held at the Nürburgring Nordschleife today. Sven Müller had driven the Manthey Racing Porsche #59 to Pole Position for the 4-hours race, ahead of Falken Motorsports BMW #3, and Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW #100. Barely 20 minutes into the race, we saw Falken Motorsports Porsche #4 hit the rear of Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW #100 and spin. Several other cars got involved too, among others, the Wochenspiegel Team Monschau Ferrari #22 who then got stuck in the gravel. The Porsche…

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Drugovich dominant in race 2

Jens Jensen

Felipe Drugovich started race two in Oschersleben from Pole Position, ahead of Marcus Armstrong and Fabio Scherer. Drugovich got a fantastic start, and instantly had a big gap to the drivers chasing him. Laurin Heinrich had a wild ride through the grass in turn 3 on lap one, before Tom Beckhäuser had an even wilder spin on lap two. Both could, however, continue without hitting anything. Halfway through the race we saw Kami Laliberte off the track, and once again dropped out of top 10, just like he did in…

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Marcus Armstrong wins race 1 in Oschersleben

Jens Jensen

Kami Laliberte had taken Pole Position but stalled when the lights went out, and only managed to get going after losing a lot of positions. Fortunately nobody hit him, even though he was completely standstill. That made Marcus Armstrong take over the lead, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein and Felipe Drugovich. Even though they had a close race on track, they finished in that way. Julian Hanses started from P2 but had a bad start too, and fell far back in the rankings on the first lap. Juan Manuel Correa dropped…

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