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42 ENDURANCE The Max Kruse Racing accomplished its mission to make up from the disappointment of the VLN’s fifth round, when both the team’s Volkswagen Golf GTI cars retired because of technical failures. Benjamin Leuchter and Andreas Gülden claimed their second victory of the season in the series’ sixth round, the 4-hour 42. RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen, in which they completed 23 laps of the Nordschleife to finish in the 19th position overall. For the whole race they were chased by the Møller Bild Motorsport Audi RS 3 LMS shared by Håkon Schjærin, Atle Gulbrandsen and Kenneth Østvold; the Norwegian team had posted the class’ fastest lap in Qualifying and crossed the finishing line 21st overall a bit more than four minutes behind the winners and two- minutes-forty ahead of the second The Estonian circuit of Pärnu hosted the final round of the NEZ6H Series, a six-hour race that took place in challenging weather conditions and saw the DHL Racing Team claiming a victory that secured the title in the TCR class. The Volkswagen Golf GTI cars of the Skuba Racing Team and Noker Racing Team had arrived in Pärnu as first and second in the standings; however, as they both suffered from technical issues during the race, this paved the Leuchter-GüldenwinforMaxKruseRacing DHLRacingTeamgrabstheNEZ6Htitle Round 6 – Saturday 4 August, Nürburgring Nordschleife 1. Gülden/Leuchter (Max Kruse Racing, Volkswagen Golf GTI); 2. Schjærin/Gulbrandsen/ Østvold/Lindstad (Møller Bil Motorsport, Audi RS 3 LMS); 3. Preisig/Prattes (Max Kruse Racing, Volkswagen Golf GTI) Round 4 – Saturday 21 September, Audru Ringrada, Pärnu 1. Č apkauskas/Calko/Adomavi č ius (DHL Racing Team, CUPRA DSG); 2. Brazaitis/ Navikauskas/Tunyla/Vaškelis (Dream 2 Drive PRO, CUPRA DSG); 3. Ambrazevi č ius/ Ivanovas/Geciauskas/Kablys (Igoriolankai, CUPRA DSG) Max Kruse Racing Golf GTI driven by Loris Prattes and Jasmin Preisig that completed the podium. The VLN will resume with round 7 on September 28th. way to a domination of the CUPRA cars. During the second part of the race the cars of DHL Racing Team and Dream 2 Drive PRO were in a close fight for the race victory and the title. Ram ū nas Č apkauskas, Konstantin Calko and Jurgis Adomavi č ius shared the winning CUPRA that completed 240 laps to be classified third overall behind two GTs and first in the TCR class ahead of the Dream 2 Drive PRO CUPRA that crossed the line only nine seconds behind them. The podium was completed by the CUPRA entered by the Igoriolankai team.