21.07.2010

ATS-Seat-Team Lorenzo/Jacksties win with tactics and skill

“We had no problems at all during the race. A super weekend”, was the race summary of Harald Jacksties, Head of Marketing of the UNIWHEELS Group, after the sixth round of the endurance racing championship at the Nürburgring. The Seat Leon entered by the Team Inter Racing was once again perfectly prepared although the Inter Racing team still suffered some minor electronic problems in practice. “In practice, we could definitely not show the performance which is actually possible. Besides, we did not want to complete too many laps in order to spare our Seat for the race”, said team manager Frank Lorenzo after the practice regarding the missed chance to finish into a better position in qualifying. The not quite adequate position on the grid for the crew used to success nevertheless did not turn out to be a disadvantage. The experienced endurance race drivers could be absolutely satisfied with place two in the very competitive class SP3T and with their win in the Seat Langstreckenchallenge classification.

“We were fighting our way up lap by lap and it was really great fun in doing so. The battles were partly very had but absolutely fair, that was motor sport at its best today”, said a happy Jacksties. In achieving first place in the Seat Langstreckenchallenge, the Seat drivers were also a little lucky – or you could also say justice was on their side. After a protest, the team Gerspacher/ Jordan was excluded due to technical non-conformity.

The ATS motor sport department could celebrate further victories in addition to the successful result of Lorenzo/ Jacksties; for example through the crew with drivers Luostarinen/ Nieminen/ Strycek in the Kissling Opel Astra. In the smaller class SP2T, too, ATS technology finished on top of the podium with the result of the Mini and with the drivers Friedrich von Bohlen and Markus Oestreich entered by Schirra Motoring.

Hinweis: Der Text ist eine Mitteilung von "ATS". Der Inhalt spiegelt nicht die Meinung der Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring wieder.