Neck-and-neck into seventh round – Ellen Lohr's 911 comeback
Stuttgart. The fight for the championship title of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland hardly gets more exciting than this. After six rounds, Germany’s Thomas Jäger and Jan Seyffarth travel to the season’s third to last race on the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona with 104 points each. Under the sunny skies of Spain, the fierce battle for the coveted title of this popular brand trophy series takes off into round seven.Despite sharing the same points tally, Jäger, a former DTM pilot who competes for the MS Racing PZ Hamburg Nord-West this season, leads the drivers’ classification. Unlike Seyffarth who has claimed two wins for his tolimit/Seyffarth Motorsport team so far, 32-year-old Jäger has seen the chequered flag three times as winner. Jäger took over the points’ lead after his latest triumph on the Nürburgring. “My aim in Barcelona is to further extend my lead,” says Thomas Jäger. “Although it will not be possible to make any great strides in increasing my advantage, it does mean exciting racing.”
The lead in the championship has already seen four changes. After the former Porsche-Junior, Seyffarth, won the season-opener in Hockenheim ahead of Jäger, the two switched positions on the EuroSpeedway Lausitz: Jäger won ahead of Seyffarth. After his second victory on the Norisring, Jäger moved into the points’ lead. He only held the top position until the fourth round in the Dutch dunes of Zandvoort, where 23-year-old Seyffarth finished third to nudge him off his perch. At the fifth race Seyffarth again dominated over the second-placed Jäger, whose revenge and reclaiming of the lead followed on the Nürburgring.
At the 27-lap sprint in Spain, Jan Seyffarth is determined to snatch back the championship. The young racer is regarded as a Barcelona specialist. Last year he celebrated two light-to-flag victories on the Circuit de Catalunya: In both the international Porsche Mobil1 Supercup and the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, Seyffarth proved unbeatable on the 2.98 kilometre track and saw the flag as winner. “I’ve only driven here twice, and both times I set pole position and won,” says Jan Seyffarth. “That’s not a bad job. It shows that this track suits me. So I have all the cards up my sleeve to win again. Now I just have to play them right.”
Another competitor in the circle of favourites is Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands). The reigning champion of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup caught up with the front-runners after winning in Zandvoort. After a relatively slow start to the season, he fought back to now lie third in the rankings. Only 17 points separate the ARAXA RACING PZ Reutlingen pilot from the leading pair. Currently sitting fourth in the standings with 71 points, Robert Renauer is now hoping to bring home his first win of the season. Despite being just 24 years old, the Farnbacher Racing pilot has contested the series since 2003 and is regarded as one of the Porsche stalwarts.
In Barcelona, Ellen Lohr (Monaco) celebrates a comeback to circuit racing. The former DTM pilot, who with her 1992 victory in Hockenheim is the only woman so far to win a DTM race, now contests the final three rounds in the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland for the ARAXA RACING PZ Reutlingen team. Lohr collected experience in the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in 2003 when she raced in the international Porsche Supercup and concluded the season ranking eleventh overall. Afterwards, the professional racer from Germany made the switch to rally and offroad sport, which included three Dakar Rally starts. After conducting initial tests at the wheel of the Cup-911, the 44-year-old commented: “Again, I felt good in the Porsche from the first moment on. I know it will be difficult for me to be competitive against the top sprint specialists. After an absence of five years from circuit racing I now look forward to the challenge, the chaos of the start and the duels.”
Drivers’ classification after six of nine championship rounds:
1. Thomas Jäger, 104 points
2. Jan Seyffarth, 104 points
3. Jeroen Bleekemolen, 87 points
4. Robert Renauer, 71 points
5. Nicki Thiim, 60 points
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Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland, round 7 on the Circuit de Catalunya, Preview: Neck-and-neck into seventh round – Ellen Lohr's 911 comeback