Plenty of stars at the final

There will be plenty of stars behind the wheels, when the VLN final is run at Nürburgring this coming Saturday. The 42. DMV Münsterlandpokal is the 9th round of this years VLN Championship. The Octane 126 team will once again enter a Ferrari 488 GT3, where the two Swiss drivers Fabio Leimer and Simon Trummer will drive alongside German Björn Grossmann. Both Leimer and Trummer have knowledge from GP2 and Le Mans amongst other things, and they are very fast drivers. Jonathan Hirschi, who has participated in the FIA WEC…

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Robert Wickens goes to IndyCar – leaves an empty DTM seat

Canadian Robert Wickens will go to IndyCar in the upcoming season for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports beside James Hinchcliffe. The 28 year-old racing driver has done 6 seasons for Mercedes-AMG in DTM, but he actually has a background in single-seaters. He had his first visit to European motorsport in 2006, while he still continued to race in the USA. He finished third in the Champ Car Atlantics in 2007, right in front of Hinchcliffe, before he became a part of the Canadian A1 Grand Prix team. 2008 was a mixed season…

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