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The impressive collection of DTM trophies at Johann-Abt-Strasse in Kempten has been enriched by two precious trophies: René Rast took third place in the drivers’ championship for ABT Sportsline at the DTM 2022 finale in Hockenheim. Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller also secured third place in the team championship for Team ABT Sportsline.
ABT Sportsline has been competing in the DTM for 23 years and this is the 16th time that the team from the Allgäu region has finished the drivers’ championship in the top three. Once again, ABT Sportsline was the best Audi team and also had the biggest share in terms of points in securing the DTM manufacturers’ championship for Audi. ABT Sportsline recorded two victories and seven podium finishes in the 2022 season, with the three additional points for pole position going to an ABT driver six times.
DTM Hockenheimring 2022
Foto: DTM/ITR/Christians
In the end, René Rast was only 15 points short of winning his fourth DTM title. In his last race for ABT Sportsline for the time being, the German, who lives in Austria, once again showed an impressive performance. On Saturday, Rast preserved his title chance with a hard-fought fifth place, although the Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II was inferior to the competition in terms of performance and had no chance on the straights of the Hockenheimring. After a correction to the Balance of Performance (BoP), Rast took pole position in qualifying on Sunday and second place in the race. However, the train towards the championship had already left.
On the day his younger brother Sheldon became DTM Champion, Kelvin van der Linde managed a remarkable recovery from 19th on the grid to fifth. In the first race on Saturday, a puncture had cost him a possible podium. Van der Linde finished the season in ninth place in the drivers’ standings.
Ricardo Feller experienced a pitch-black weekend. On Saturday, the Swiss was involved in the multi-car pile-up that led to the race being red flagged. The repair of his damaged R8 took until late at night. On Sunday, a puncture deprived the Swiss of a conciliatory end to his first DTM season, which Feller finished in 15th place.
ABT Sportsline has already experienced a lot in 23 years of DTM, but the situation before the finale of the 2022 season at the Hockenheimring (Saturday and Sunday both from 1 PM CEST live on ProSieben and ran.de) is unusual even for the team around Hans-Jürgen Abt and Thomas Biermaier. The top five drivers are only 16 points apart in the overall standings before the last two races – and they all drive different makes of car. In purely mathematical terms, there are even ten drivers who can still win the prestigious drivers’ title. The teams’ and manufacturers’ championships will also be decided at Hockenheim.
Team ABT Sportsline, ABT Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II (#3 Kelin van der Linde)
For Team ABT Sportsline there is already a small reason to celebrate when the first of the two final races starts at 1:30 PM CEST on Saturday: It will be the 300th DTM championship race that the team from Kempten will tackle. ABT Sportsline is the only DTM team that has been competing in the popular racing series without interruption for 23 years and has a correspondingly large number of supporters who will be keeping their fingers crossed for the team at Hockenheim – including high-ranking representatives of its 17 partners, who will all be represented at the season finale with their managing directors or top management by invitation of ABT Head of Sports Marketing Harry Unflath.
Not only Kempten and the Allgäu region will be rooting for Team ABT Sportsline this weekend: most of the spectators in the grandstands at the Motodrom will also be rooting for René Rast and his ABT Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II with start number 33. Of the top five favourites, Rast is the only German driver and, as a three-time DTM Champion, undoubtedly the best known. In addition, numerous Audi employees from the nearby Neckarsulm factory are expected at the Hockenheimring, who wish for one thing above all: that René Rast becomes DTM champion for the fourth time on Sunday.
The 35-year-old from Minden, who lives in Bregenz, Austria, has another advantage: he is the only one of the top five favourites who already knows how to win the DTM in the final race at Hockenheim – he has already done so twice, both times to the chagrin of ABT Sportsline, by the way: in 2017, he snatched the title away from ABT driver Mattias Ekström virtually on the home straight by turning a 21-point deficit into a three-point lead and crowning his first full DTM season with the title straight away.
Having secured his second title early in 2019, Rast engaged in a fierce title fight with then ABT driver Nico Müller at the finale in Hockenheim in 2020 to mark the end of the Class 1 era. The Swiss won the first race on Saturday, but Rast then clinched his third DTM title with a victory on Sunday.
Rast also wrote a small piece of DTM history at the end of the 2018 season at Hockenheim: he managed to set a new record with six victories in a row. After a difficult start to the season for Audi, Rast almost managed to make the impossible possible with his two wins at Hockenheim and become champion once again. In the end, he was only four points short.
After a strong first season in the GT3 race car, Rast goes into the final weekend of 2022 just twelve points behind. A total of 58 points will still be awarded at Hockenheim.
Manifold set to allow fitment of a pair of Weber 46IDA3C to the flat 6 Porsche engine as fitted to the 911 and 914/6
Manufactured by Webcon in the UK to the very highest standards, these manifolds are slightly taller than the originals at 90mm and feature additional strengthening to ensure superb performance and longevity.
The manifolds also feature the correctly shaped plug lead holes that will allow the OE lead grommets to be used.
Engine port is 40mm and carb port is 46mm. Part Number: MW4346 Price (Excl VAT) £659.00
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The original factory caburettor linkage for the Ford Pinto has not been available for many years. However, Webcon has now produced an almost exact recreation that will also enable the Ford 1.6/2.0 OHC engine to be converted to Twin Choke Weber power.
The LP4232 linkage kit can be used to connect a Weber 32/36DGV or DGAV to a Ford Pinto engine.
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The Series 3 Land Rover Defender might be getting a little long in the tooth, but that doesn’t mean that no one is making replacement parts for them. Webcon can provide a replacement carburettor to suit the Landrover Series 3 and 90/110 2495cc engine models fitted with a Weber 32/34DMTL 7/101.
The Webcon replacement range of carburettor kits is the world’s largest and best engineered range. Webcon has been developing the range in the same facility, using the same engineers since 1978. Every kit that is designed to return a car to factory levels of performance but, in many cases, it improves on the original economy figures.
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Mini Spares now has an upgraded aluminium radiator for classic Mini MPi models which had the radiator mounted at the front as standard. The new radiator offers superior cooling with the additonal benefits of aluminium construction.
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MINIFIN non-spacered die cast alloy brake drums from Mini Spares are the ideal way to upgrade a classic Mini’s braking system.
The lightweight alloy material reduces unsprung weight and the finned design dissipates heat quicker than OE drums; this in turn helps reduce brake fade.
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