BWT Lechner Racing Secures Team Cham­pions

 

Porsche Hockenheimring 2019
Porsche Hockenheimring 2019
BWT Lechner Racing secured the team cham­pi­onship in the German Porsche Carrera Cup for the second time in a row.
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At the second race at Hock­en­heim, Julien Andlauer won his fifth Carrera Cup race of the season, ahead of Jaxon Evans and his BWT Lechner Racing team­mate Michael Ammermüller in P3. With only two races to go at the seasons final at Sach­sen­ring at the end of September, BWT Lechner Racing cannot be caught anymore by any of it´s competi­tors. Also the drivers´ title is left to be decided only between the two drivers in pink. With only 50 points at stake now, Larry ten Voorde in P3 of the clas­si­fi­ca­tion is already too far behind.

“It was a bit of a messy race with the three safety cars due to all the inci­dents in the middle and at the back of the field”, an ever so happy Andlauer stated after his win. “I had a very good start, so I could take the lead imme­di­ately from Jaxon, who did not get off s well from pole. Then the biggest chal­lenge was to keep always cool during the re-​starts, never make a mistake and never let the guys behind come too close. I am really glad I managed to do this, and it is a fantastic feeling to secure the team title with a victory. Thanks a lot to Walter and every­body in the team to make this possible for me. Also in the drivers´ cham­pi­onship it looks quite good for me now, as I could extend my lead to 27.5 points again. But I will not take anything for granted yet, we have seen a few times this year how fast things can change.”

Michael Ammermüller, who had started from P3, was not too happy about the many inter­rup­tions of the race: “I think normally a little bit more than P3 would have been possible, but with the three Safety Cars, there was no way to prepare a proper attack and try a pass. Never mind, it´s great we have sealed the team cham­pi­onship, so now there is a moment to cele­brate and to thank every­body involved in this great achieve­ment. About the drivers´ title, well, we will see what happens in two weeks time, for sure I will not give up and see what I still can do...”

On Saturday, it had been Ammermüller who scored his fifth win of the season, just ahead of his team­mate Julien Andlauer and Dylan Pereira, also repre­senting the pink colours in this series and making it a complete pink podium one more time. Ammermüller took the lead from pole posi­tion, and defended it until the finish line after a hard fight with Andlauer: “Julien really gave me a hard time, espe­cially towards the end of the race, but I managed to keep it cool an keep him behind. It was a nice, clean fight – and even as it was prob­ably quite exciting for our guys at the pitwall, I think we never really got in danger of getting in trouble.” The Frenchman agreed: “I really tried to put pres­sure on Michael, but he is so expe­ri­enced, it is really nearly impos­sible to push him into a mistake. So I made sure not to do anything stupid, and consid­ering my lead in the cham­pi­onship, I think I can live with P2”.

Team prin­cipal Walter Lechner was ever so happy about the general achieve­ment of the weekend. “We were quite far ahead, so winning the team title today was not such a great surprise. But we are very thankful we managed to do it and I would like to use the moment to thank every­body who contributed to reaching this goal. There are a lot more people involved than those in the lime­light – so my special thanks go out to those in the back­ground as well. Going to the season final with the knowl­edge that the drivers cham­pi­onship will also go to one of our guys is a little bit of a relief too, I think we will be able to enjoy the last Porsche Carrera Cup weekend 2019 at Sach­sen­ring now even more.”
Porsche Hockenheimring 2019

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