Two double winners at Red Bull Ring 15.08.2012: Both Jens Weimann and Guido Thierfelder have extended their lead in their divisions during

Both Jens Weimann and Guido Thierfelder have extended their lead in their divisions during this weekend and have thus proven their positions as this season’s table leaders. Their superior victories were not diminished by the additional weight that was definitely a disadvantage on the uphill passages in comparison with their competitors.


Jens Weimann finished the ADAC PROCAR event at the Red Bull Ring with a jubilee score of exactly 100 points. The BMW driver of Thate Motorsport fully controlled his persecutor Paul Green who still fought his way close to Weimann despite some severe setbacks. “It is just that I am more experienced than Paul.


Of course you can see that on such demanding circuits as the Red Bull Ring. What a pity that he fell back today because of technical problems since I could already see him approaching me in my rear mirror”, Weimann states. Green himself got angy about this “small thing” that forced him to stay in the pit lane in the first race and which prevented him from taking up his task of chasing Weimann.


“I spent about one or two minutes in the pit. There was a problem with the Quickshift which was rapidly solved”, the Wiesbaden rookie of the Liqui Moly Team Engstler explains. The second race was characterized by his race to catch up. Starting from position 9 he swept through Division 2 to close the gap between him and Weimann. On the side, the result was the fastest round of the race for the young Engstler rookie.


In Division 2, the audience were witnessing exciting and spectacular duels and yet another double victory of the dominating Guido Thierfelder in his ETH Peugeot 207 Sport. While Nils Mierschke started the first race from the pole position and defended it throughout the first rounds, the second race was a one-man-performance of old-hand Thierfelder.


“Last year, we started with a different gear transmission ratio which did not got that well”, the Troisdorf citizen explains who did not leave a chance to his chasing duo Mierschke and Glatzel. Especially in the first race the duels of Mierschke and Glatzel were definitely worth seeing. Changes in leadership and skilled passing manoeuvres were characteristic of the race.


Lennart Marioneck slightly missed his chance to achieve a podium position in the first race as he got thwarted in the middle of a hard duel with Ralf Glatzel in the second race because of a clutch failure that led to an early drop-out of the Bamberg citizen.


The surprise of the second race was David Griessner's constant performance on position 4 behind Glatzel thus ensuring him a respectable success at his first PROCAR event. Thierfelder is now leading the championship with a comfortable edge of 29 points followed by Mierschke and Glatzel, currently ranging  ten points behind Mierschke.


In two weeks already, the drivers will be fighting each other once more – at the Eurospeedway in the Lausitz region. A summary of the races at the Red Bull Ring will be transmitted on August 18, 2012 at 12.15 pm in the ADAC Masters Magazin on Sport 1.



Katharina Brüggmann , photo ADAC