Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup: No luck for Attempto Racing at the Nürburgring
Media Attempo Racing | 19.9.16 | Aktuálně
Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup 2016
(Hannover, 19.9.2016). ). A lot of bad luck denied Attempto Racing a better result at the team’s second home outing at the Nürburgring in the Blancpain GT Series. Radiator damage and a trip into the tyre wall were among the set-backs for the team from Hannover at the final round of this year’s Endurance Cup in the Eifel region of Germany.
AT the end of the three-hour race, the number 101 Lamborghini Huracán GT3, in which regular drivers Daniel Zampieri (26) from Italy and Patric Niederhauser (24) from Switzerland were supported by German Nürburgring specialist Christian Mamerow (31), was the team’s best-placed car in 22nd place. The trio made a good start from 19th on the grid, but was then barged by another car and consequently dropped back down the field. The offending car was later penalised by race control.
The crew of the number 77 Porsche 911 GT3 R had initially caused quite a stir. After qualifying in a fine 15th place, 50-year-old Jürgen Häring (Germany) and his French team-mates Clément Mateu and Nicolas Armindo were running towards the front of the field during the early stages of the race. However, a damaged radiator forced them to make an unscheduled pit stop, during which the trio lost several laps. Having repaired the car, the team was then given a drive-through penalty for speeding in the pit lane and ultimately came home 47th.
The race came to a premature end on lap 61 for the number 100 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 when Belgian Louis Machiels (45) skidded across a run-off zone and into a tyre wall. Machiels, who was having to drive two of the three stints, was fortunately unhurt. Alongside Dutchman Max van Splunteren (20), he had been mounting a fightback from the back of the grid.
The Blancpain GT Series calendar now features one final Sprint Cup race before the end of the season. This will take place on 2nd October in Barcelona.
As well as the race in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, Attempto Racing also fielded three Lamborghini Huracán LP 620-2s in each of the two races in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo in the Eifel Mountains. Germans Tim Müller (49) and Jürgen Krebs (50) scored heavily in the AM class. Müller finished runner-up and fourth in the class, while Krebs came home fifth in both races. Krebs lies eighth in the overall AM standings with 38 points, just ahead of Müller in ninth place with 37. The father-son duo of Dirg (51) and Dimitri Parhofer (34) were ninth in the AM class in race two on Sunday, having finished eleventh in Saturday’s opening race. Valencia will host the World Final of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo on 1st and 2nd December.
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