4 June 2018 Archives

3 disqualifications in Hungary

Monday June 4th, 2018 Jens Jensen

Five hours after the chequered flag fell at the Hungaroring, at the 6th round of this year’s DTM Championship, three documents were released from the stewards. Car number 7, 22 and 48 were disqualified from the race due to dangerous driving in the pit, where the drivers didn’t drive with appropriate speed. The numbers belong to Bruno Spengler, Lucas Auer and Edoardo Mortara, and those were the three involved in hitting the persons in the pitlane, during the sudden rainfall. Spengler and Mortara will have a 10- grid penalty as…

Plenty of surprises in Detroit

Monday June 4th, 2018 Jens Jensen

The second race of the weekend was run on Sunday in Detroit, in the so-called Duel in Detroit. The drivers had a new Qualifying session Sunday morning local time, and that resulted in Championship leader Alexander Rossi grabbing first position ahead of Robert Wickens, Will Power, Ed Jones and yesterday’s winner, Scott Dixon. The qualifying was run on a damp track, which caught out Josef Newgarden and Tony Kanaan. So they had to start far back in the field. Yesterday’s Polesitter Marco Andretti started the race from P12. The start…