April 29, 2015

Citroens attack the 'Ring

Photo: BridgeToGantry

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 screwed signed by USF1) was fastest with an 8:38.027 lap.   By comparison the fastest race lap by the winning BMW Z4 GT3 in 2014 was 8:32 so,  not bad for a 2 liter 1.6 liter car with skinny tires!






Results via Motorsport.com
Leading testing times:
PosDriverCarTime/Gap
1Jose Maria LopezCitroen8m38.027
2Sebastien LoebCitroen2.489
3Ma Qing HuaCitroen3.462
4Gabriele TarquiniHonda4.762
5Yvan MullerCitroen5.616
6Hugo ValenteChevrolet6.557
7Tom ChiltonChevrolet8.657
8Tiago MonteiroHonda9.859
9James ThompsonLada11.404
10John FilippiChevrolet14.485
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8 comments:

  1. Ignacio SellanWednesday, April 29, 2015 10:35:00 AM

    Not bad to be 2.48 sec ahead of Seb! and not to mention 5.6 of Yvan the title contender.

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  2. MDRThursday, April 30, 2015 12:39:00 PM

    Impressive times.


    I've never seen the instrument display blurred out before...

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  3. Andy from BeavertonThursday, April 30, 2015 9:11:00 PM

    We don't want to see those Citroens, we want to see these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziyzsN8-6C4

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  4. MarkMonday, May 04, 2015 8:42:00 AM

    Please someone correct me.
    Civic 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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  5. Julia RobertsMonday, May 04, 2015 1:43:00 PM

    nn

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  6. AxisACMonday, May 04, 2015 5:18:00 PM

    You're missing the GP part of the track which is used for VLN

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  7. MarkTuesday, May 05, 2015 7:18:00 AM

    If this lapt time is BTG+GP track that the time is understandable !
    They should do more work owith their PR to clarify info they publish

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  8. AxisACTuesday, May 05, 2015 9:54:00 AM

    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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