Eurocup Megane Trophy - Nurburgring

Points but no podium in Germany.

Saturday, 2 qualifying sessions and the first race of the week-end. With the rain as guest ...

For the qualifying session, the track is dry, but there is a lot of wind, and grey clouds. The session starts with delay, due to the numerous red flags in the others series. And already a yellow flag after a few minutes, .. the session is very short, only 15 minutes. So we have to hurry up..

And a safety car will even enter the track...

Our 3 drivers improve in Q2.

Race 1 :

The track is dry when the Megane are going to the grid. All cars are with dry tires.

A few minutes after the start, it begins to rain.. Our 3 Megane drivers have to come back into the pits to change the tires, and to refuel. But our team has only 2 spaces into the pits, Fabien Thuner, has to wait a little bit to get the wet tires. 

The race continues, but the conditions are very difficult, as the track is really wet. A lot of runaways in this first race.

But our 3 drivers are performing well and remains on the track : 

Michele Faccin finishes 6, Fabien Thuner 9th and Jochen Habets 14th.

Race 2 :

Sunday, at least, it is clear, it is raining since we wake up..

We are nearly into the summer,.. and we have only 8 degrees here in Germany.

All the drivers have the wet tires. Some technical problem for Michele Faccin to start his car, .. he is the last one to arrive on the grid, but he is ready to jump at the start. 

The start is given on a real wet track. A first runaway for 2 drivers, and the safety car enters the track.

All the Megane cars come into the pits for the mandatory pit-stop, and this time, we succeed well. 

Again the race is very difficult with the wheather conditions. Jochen Habets can't avoid the runaway.

Fabien finishes 5th, followed by Michele, 6th.

Championship : Fabien Thuner 5th, Michele Faccin, 6th and Jochen Habets, 10th.

Team ranking : 3rd position for our team.

We will do better at Budapest, within 2 weeks  !