22 October 2017 Archives

Nerve-wrecking finish to the ELMS season

Sunday October 22nd, 2017 Jens Jensen

Portimao delivered another sunny day, for the 6th and final round of this years European Le Mans Series. 35 cars stormed towards Turn 1, resulting in a lot of troubles when the start was about to go. The start was held for a long time, and that meant some of the cars towards the rear had to go hard on the brakes again, to not hit the cars ahead. Fabien Barthez in Panis Barthez Competition #23 led the first lap of the race, but was overtaken by Hugo De Sadeleer…

Has DTM, as we know it, come to an end one year early?

Sunday October 22nd, 2017Sunday October 22nd, 2017 Jens Jensen

Deutsche Touringwagen Masters has been through some hard years regarding spectators at the track and also viewers at the TVs around the world. You have to look a long way back until you totally filled grand stands at both the season start and season finale at Hockenheim. The opening round of 2016 had great weather, but still far from every seat sold out, and 2017 was plagued by bad weather, and visually only maximum 75% of the seats in the Main Grandstand in use, on top of many of the…