F1: British GP McLaren notes
- alanp@Sun.COM (Alan Perry)
- Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Tue Jul 16 23:16:23 EDT 1996
Silverstone - 14th July 1996
Marlboro McLaren Mercedes driver Mika Hakkinen achieved his best result
so far this season with a superb drive to third place, which enabled
him to make his first podium appearance of 1996. His result, combined
with David Coulthard's fifth place, brought a total of six points to
Marlboro McLaren Mercedes' tally, enabling the team to close the gap to
third placed Ferrari down to three points in the Constructors
Championship.
Mika Hakkinen: "It is a fantastic feeling to be back on the podium. I
had a good start and was able to resist Damon Hill's chase until he
disappeared from my mirrors. He was pushing all the time, and was
particularly fast in the first sector. My pitstops went extremely
well, the mechanics worked very hard and did a great job. My only
problem was with the overtaking of some backmarkers, which cost me a
couple of seconds per lap over several laps."
David Coulthard: "It is a great result for the team to have a car in
the top three. The weekend and the race have been difficult for me,
but I have scored points, as the last few Grands Prix, and that helps
the team maintain a good position in the Championship. Now we need to
see what we can do for Hockenheim. Today's race showed once again that
the car is very reliable, that our top speed is good, as is our balance
in the short corners. I think that we should be in good shape in
Germany on Mercedes-Benz home ground."
Norbert Haug: "This podium finish, just before going to Hockenheim,
represents a good team effort, which in addition, brings us six
championship points. We have achieved three podium finishes since the
European Grand Prix at Nurburgring and this is the third consecutive
race in which we have placed both cars in the top six. We now hope to
continue this level of performance in front of our home crowd at the
German Grand Prix."
Ron Dennis: "This was a good third place, complemented by a determined
fifth place from David, with the resulting points moving us closer to
third in the Constructors Championship. I am particularly pleased that
no one was able to overtake Mika on the track. We are getting closer
bit by bit and are very much looking forward to Hockenheim."
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Subject: GTCC2: Wunstorf results
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"D1 ADAC SUPER-TOUREN-WAGEN CUP '96" ROUND 5 AT WUNSTORF AIRPORT-COURSE
Track length 5.05km, weather dry/cloudy, 19 deg.C.- attendance: 38,000
Sprint - 11 laps
Start Soper, Pirro, Wendlinger, collision between Burgstaller and
Aiello, Muller and Hahne, all dropping back.
lap01 Tamara Vidali into the pits for a tyre change, front left.
02 Treml stop and go penalty for jump start.
07 Black flag for Treml for ignoring the penalty.
10 Pirro taking the lead from Soper, Soper takes it back.
finish Soper, Pirro, Wendlinger
--------------------------Results STW-Sprint----------------------------
Pos Driver Team/Car Time
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Steve Soper/GB BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 20:36.467
2 Emanuele Pirro/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 + 0.450
3 Karl Wendlinger/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 5.806
4 Altfrid Heger/D Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 6.173
5 Christian Abt/D ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 6.538
6 Marco Werner/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 9.807
7 Anthony Reid/GB Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 13.354
8 Klaus Niedzwiedz/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 15.375
9 Laurent Aiello/F Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 15.593
10 Kris Nissen/DK ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 20.259
11 Joerg Mueller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 21.071
12 Philipp Peter/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 22.232
13 Roland Asch/D Team Schuebel-Ford Mondeo 23.873
14 Ralf Kalaschek/D MIG Austria-Audi A4 24.468
15 Sascha Maassen/D Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 26.535
16 Alexander Burgstaller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 26.635
17 Franz Engstler/D Alfa Team Engstler-Alfa Romeo 155 31.887
18 Armin Hahne/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 46.584
19 Frank Kramer/D Isert-BMW 320i 47.580
20 Claudia Huertgen/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo 54.113
21 Oliver Mayer/D Alfa Team Engstler-Alfa Romeo 155 1:38.963
22 Tamara Vidali/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 1:43.037
STW-Race 20 laps:
Start: Soper, Pirro, Wendlinger, collision between Kalaschek and Engstler,
Kalaschek out.
lap04 Heger and Aiello get past Wendlinger.
05 Aiello overtaking Heger, Engstler into the pits for tyre change,
front right.
06 Pirro takes the lead from Soper.
07 Nissen dropping back with technical problems.
09 Reid out, suspension defect after kissing the curbs too hard.
14 Aiello takes 2nd position from Soper.
16 Maassen in the meadows, dropping back.
17 Wendlinger gets past Heger.
19 Maassen pits, out. Muller, Abt and Heger collision, Heger out.
finish Pirro, Aiello, Soper
----------------------------Results STW-Race----------------------------
Pos Driver Team/Car Time
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Emanuele Pirro/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 37:11.032
2 Laurent Aiello/F Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 + 2.463
3 Steve Soper/GB BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 9.319
4 Karl Wendlinger/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 15.377
5 Marco Werner/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 16.423
6 Philipp Peter/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 16.901
7 Joerg Mueller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 20.949
8 Christian Abt/D ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 27.769
9 Alexander Burgstaller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 32.643
10 Tamara Vidali/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 33.320
11 Armin Hahne/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 37.310
12 Klaus Niedzwiedz/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 39.294
13 Roland Asch/D Team Schuebel-Ford Mondeo 55.316
14 Frank Kramer/D Isert-BMW 320i 1:08.075
15 Claudia Huertgen/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo 1:45.608
16 Franz Engstler/D Alfa Team Engstler-Alfa Romeo 155 2:26.579
17 Altfrid Heger/D Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 -1 lap
18 Oliver Mayer/D Alfa Team Engstler-Alfa Romeo 155 1
19 Wolfgang Treml/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo 2
20 Sascha Maassen/D Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 3
Standings:
Pos Driver Pts
---------------------------
1 Pirro 412
2 Soper 307
3 Abt 240
4 Wendlinger 237
5 Aiello 187
6 Vidali 179
7 Peter 150
8 Werner 146
9 Mueller 142
10 Burgstaller 130
11 Kalaschek 128
12 Nissen 125
13 Asch 116
Niedzwiedz 116
15 Heger 112
16 Hahne 110
17 Maassen 94
18 Engstler 64
19 Reid 56
20 Mamerow 53
21 Gindorf 50
22 Gaggl 44
23 Huertgen 37
24 von Bayern 34
25 Ulrich 31
26 Boutsen 21
27 Kraemer 16
28 Heigert 12
29 Capelli 9
30 Mayer 6
31 Hughes 4
Treml 4
Manufacturers:
1 Audi 732
2 BMW 513
3 Peugeot 299
4 Honda 226
5 Ford 178
6 Nissan 157
7 Opel 146
8 Alfa Romeo 70
All information courtesy of MNI
- Motorsport News International
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