Ludwig and Mies keep title chance alive
With a second and a sixth place Luca Ludwig and Christopher Mies have kept their title chances alive in the ADAC GT Masters.
The two youngsters from Team ABT Sportsline successfully fought and reduced their 16-point gap to the leaders of the standings to nine points and will now travel to the season’s finale at Oschersleben (1 to 3 October) as the hunters. Except for the two teams in the Audi R8 LMS and Lamborghini no other drivers have any chances left of clinching the title in the series featuring the dream sports cars.
"This was one of my most difficult races ever,” said Christopher Mies. "When I took over the car from Luca and went out on the track again I was right in the middle of the toughest duels. I managed to overtake a few rivals and was happy to drive the car across the finish line in second place.” His partner Luca Ludwig expressed his admiration for the great drive from sixth to second place as well: "Congratulations to Christopher, who drove a tremendous race.”
Those who may have thought that the gods of racing action had used up all their powder were in for a surprise on Sunday: rain again set in during the last ten minutes of the race in the Eifel and caused the positions to change all the way up into the final turn. Luca Ludwig, who took over the car from Mies this time fought a fierce battle against his rivals despite degrading tyres, but sixth place was the best he could do.
”With 50 kilograms of success ballast on board we were the heaviest car in the field. Still, we gave everything and fought up to the finish line,” Christopher Mies and summed up the result: "We achieved our primary aim of keeping the championship undecided up until the finale. Obviously, we’d have liked scoring a few more points but now the prerequisites for the final weekend are clear: maximum attack.”
The duo driving the "sister car” designated as number two experienced a fair to middling weekend at the Nürburgring. "That was a turbulent race on Sunday,” commented Jens Klingmann, who shared the cockpit of the R8 with a different partner this time, Frank Kechele. "Right at the beginning there was a collision with a Porsche. Although I made up ground again afterwards, I was subsequently turned around by another car so that I had to settle for seventh place. That’s a shame but it’s much more important for our team to continue competing for the championship. On Saturday Klingmann and Kechele finished in sixth place.
The two youngsters from Team ABT Sportsline successfully fought and reduced their 16-point gap to the leaders of the standings to nine points and will now travel to the season’s finale at Oschersleben (1 to 3 October) as the hunters. Except for the two teams in the Audi R8 LMS and Lamborghini no other drivers have any chances left of clinching the title in the series featuring the dream sports cars.
"This was one of my most difficult races ever,” said Christopher Mies. "When I took over the car from Luca and went out on the track again I was right in the middle of the toughest duels. I managed to overtake a few rivals and was happy to drive the car across the finish line in second place.” His partner Luca Ludwig expressed his admiration for the great drive from sixth to second place as well: "Congratulations to Christopher, who drove a tremendous race.”
Those who may have thought that the gods of racing action had used up all their powder were in for a surprise on Sunday: rain again set in during the last ten minutes of the race in the Eifel and caused the positions to change all the way up into the final turn. Luca Ludwig, who took over the car from Mies this time fought a fierce battle against his rivals despite degrading tyres, but sixth place was the best he could do.
”With 50 kilograms of success ballast on board we were the heaviest car in the field. Still, we gave everything and fought up to the finish line,” Christopher Mies and summed up the result: "We achieved our primary aim of keeping the championship undecided up until the finale. Obviously, we’d have liked scoring a few more points but now the prerequisites for the final weekend are clear: maximum attack.”
The duo driving the "sister car” designated as number two experienced a fair to middling weekend at the Nürburgring. "That was a turbulent race on Sunday,” commented Jens Klingmann, who shared the cockpit of the R8 with a different partner this time, Frank Kechele. "Right at the beginning there was a collision with a Porsche. Although I made up ground again afterwards, I was subsequently turned around by another car so that I had to settle for seventh place. That’s a shame but it’s much more important for our team to continue competing for the championship. On Saturday Klingmann and Kechele finished in sixth place.
