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GRT EXTENDS POINTS SCORING STREAK IN SUNDAY’S DTM RACE AT IMOLA

GRT was presented with a challenging Sunday at the Lamborghini home race in Imola. After his spectacular fightback to a podium finish on the previous day, Mirko Bortolotti achieved a hard-fought tenth place in the second race. Clemens Schmid and the Lamborghini factory driver had taken P5 and P10 in qualifying with the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO despite carrying extra weight. In a turbulent race, Mirko Bortolotti’s points result proved to be the maximum for Grasser Racing. In the driver standings, the Italian is in second position after three of eight race weekends. GRT is currently in fourth place in its debut year in the DTM.

K-PAX RACING SWEEPS VIR

Rounds 5 and 6 of the Fanatec GT World Challenge America Powered by AWS took place at VIRginia International Raceway, known to the racing community as “Heaven on Earth”, which translated to “fairytale” in describing the way the weekend ended up going for K-PAX Racing. 

FELLER CLAIMS MAIDEN DTM RACE WIN

A lot of action, a lot of overtaking, and two new faces on the DTM podium at the end: 22-year-old Swiss Ricardo Feller claimed the maiden win of his still young DTM career. Following René Rast’s victory on Saturday, it was the second win for the ABT Sportsline Audi team in Imola. Dev Gore finished […]

GRT SHINES AT LAMBORGHINI HOME RACE IN THE DTM

Forza GRT! The Austrian Lamborghini team celebrated their best result to date in the legendary racing series in Saturday’s DTM race at Imola. In a fiercely contested heat battle at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Mirko Bortolotti and Clemens Schmid kept their cool until the chequered flag and took third and sixth place. Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti made up no less than 13 positions in the field of 28 GT3 cars driving the #63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO. Clemens Schmid had a strong start into the day with fourth place in qualifying and subsequently scored the first points of his DTM career in the race. In the overall standings, Mirko Bortolotti and Grasser Racing remain in second place.

RAST WINS DTM RACE 1 AT IMOLA

René Rast is definitely back in DTM! After a one-year break in the 2021 season and a first podium finish at Lausitzring, the three-time champion secured his first race win after 587 days at Imola. Back then, in November 2020, the German had cemented his third title win at Hockenheim. In the Italian heat with […]

HOT DTM ACTION IN IMOLA AS NICO MULLER LEADS THE WAY IN FREE PRACTICE

It could hardly have been closer: from the fastest driver of the day, Nico Müller (SUI, Team Rosberg, Audi), down to Canadian Mikaël Grenier, who ended up in 22nd place with the Mercedes-AMG run by the GruppeM Racing team, the lap times of the DTM drivers in second free practice at the 4.909 kilometres long Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola ranged within just one second. With his time of 1m 40.909s, Müller was the only driver to post a sub-1m 41s lap time and thus ended up as the fastest on the practice day of the DTM round in the Emilia Romagna region.

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