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WTCC was testing at the Nurburgring this week ahead of their first race there since 1983. The event will be a support race to this year'24 H Rennen in mid May.
Jose Maria Lopez ( you might remember "Pechito" from when he was
Results via Motorsport.com
Leading testing times:
| Pos | Driver | Car | Time/Gap |
| 1 | Jose Maria Lopez | Citroen | 8m38.027 |
| 2 | Sebastien Loeb | Citroen | 2.489 |
| 3 | Ma Qing Hua | Citroen | 3.462 |
| 4 | Gabriele Tarquini | Honda | 4.762 |
| 5 | Yvan Muller | Citroen | 5.616 |
| 6 | Hugo Valente | Chevrolet | 6.557 |
| 7 | Tom Chilton | Chevrolet | 8.657 |
| 8 | Tiago Monteiro | Honda | 9.859 |
| 9 | James Thompson | Lada | 11.404 |
| 10 | John Filippi | Chevrolet | 14.485 |
Not bad to be 2.48 sec ahead of Seb! and not to mention 5.6 of Yvan the title contender.
ReplyDeleteImpressive times.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen the instrument display blurred out before...
We don't want to see those Citroens, we want to see these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziyzsN8-6C4
ReplyDeletePlease someone correct me.
ReplyDeleteCivic type-R turbo STOCK is running Nurbugring in 7.5X.XX time and these racing machines in 8.30 ?
What is wrong with my perception ?
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ReplyDeleteYou're missing the GP part of the track which is used for VLN
ReplyDeleteIf this lapt time is BTG+GP track that the time is understandable !
ReplyDeleteThey should do more work owith their PR to clarify info they publish
not BTG, nobody publishes BTG times other than pub racers, it's about half of the GP track plus the complete Nordschleife (minus a little piece of the straight before Hatzenbach,I think it's called)
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