{"id":4334,"date":"2022-09-30T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurotuningnews.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2022-09-06T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:36:24","slug":"two-more-podiums-for-abt-sportsline-in-the-dtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurotuningnews.com\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"Two more podiums for ABT Sportsline in the DTM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Team ABT Sportsline started the second half of the DTM season at the N\u00fcrburgring with a double podium. In the first race after the summer break, Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller made it two ABT drivers together on the podium for the first time this season. On Sunday, Kelvin van der Linde finished fourth as the best Audi driver after a strong qualifying. The South African thus scored more points at the N\u00fcrburgring than any other driver on the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DTM N\u00fcrburgring 2022\rFoto: DTM\/ITR\/Christians<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Saturday was initially marked by thick fog and long waiting for better visibility. Qualifying had to be cancelled, the race started with a delay of almost four hours and a starting grid according to the championship standings \u2013 actually an advantage for Ren\u00e9 Rast, who started the race from third as the third-placed driver in the standings. The three-time DTM champion had his sights set on second place in difficult conditions on a damp track before he was spun around by a competitor. Two points for ninth place were a meagre haul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, things got even worse for Rast: In the hectic opening phase he was again spun around by a competitor \u2013 this time with the gravel bed as the final destination. Rast\u2019s deficit in the overall standings grew to a total of 29 points at the N\u00fcrburgring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kelvin van der Linde, on the other hand, improved from 13th to seventh place in the championship. The South African scored a total of 33 points at the N\u00fcrburgring. On Saturday, van der Linde moved up from 20th to second place on the slippery track. On Sunday, he managed an (almost) perfect qualifying lap, which secured him second place on the grid. In the race, he successfully fended off all attacks from Mirko Bortolotti in the Lamborghini, who was breathing down his neck almost the entire time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo Feller managed the second podium of his still young DTM career on Saturday with third place \u2013 much to the delight of several hundred customers and employees of ABT partner Scherer, who followed the race at the N\u00fcrburgring on site. On Sunday, Feller had to park his ABT Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II early due to a brake problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite Feller\u2019s retirement in the second race, Team ABT Sportsline reduced the gap to Schubert Motorsport in the team standings to 21 points. In the drivers\u2019 standings, the three ABT drivers Ren\u00e9 Rast, Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller are in positions four, seven and eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DTM season continues in 14 days at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Team ABT Sportsline started the second half of the DTM season at the N\u00fcrburgring with a double podium. In the first race after the summer break, Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller made it two ABT drivers together on the podium for the first time this season. On Sunday, Kelvin van der Linde finished … <\/p>\n

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