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WORLD AND LIFE
TCR 2018
ENDURANCE
Norwegian quartet
wins VLN’s fifth round
The 6-hour ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen,
the fifth round of the VLN series, saw
the Møller Bil Motorsport Audi RS3
LMS of Norwegian drivers Håkon
Schjærin, Atle Gulbrandsen, Anders
Lindstad and Kenneth Østvold
victorious in the TCR class.
After claiming pole position with a lap
of 8:42.551 that gave them the 26th
position on the overall grid, the four
Norwegian drivers completed 39 laps
of the Nordschleife to be classified an
outstanding 20th overall out of the
162 cars that took the start.
Of the nine participants in the TCR
class, only three took the chequered
flag. Benedikt Gentgen, Martin
Pischinger and Wolfgang Haugg
finished second in the FEV Racing
CUPRA, one lap behind the winners,
while the podium was completed by
the Lubner Motorsport Opel Astra
shared by Thorsten Wolter, Rudolf
Rhyn, Thomas Jäger and Michael
Brüggenkamp on 35 laps.
Among the retirees were the two
Mathilda Racing cars – a CUPRA and a
Volkswagen Golf GTI – driven by the
dominators of the TCR class Andreas
Gülden and Morits Oestreich.
The sixth round of the series – the 41.
RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen – will take
place on September 1st.