20 Mar Konrad Motorsport with two cars in the Top-10 at the Nürburgring

Christian Engelhart finished on position seven in the Porsche Carrera Cup’s third championship run on the famous Nürburgring-Nordschleife. Christopher Zöchling caused quite a surprise and celebrated a top-10-result in his debut-race for Konrad Motorsport. Felipe Fernández Laser crossed the line on the 18th place.

From his eleventh starting position Christian Engelhart started a great pursuit-race: “Already the start was incredibly good and I was able to overtake several cars.” Also in the further course of the race the man from Kösching got along really well and finished the race on the seventh place.

For the first time at all Christopher Zöchling was behind the wheel of one of the Konrad-Porsches this weekend. He deputized Rolf Ineichen, who could not participate in the race because of a scheduling conflict. Already in qualifying the likeable Austrian caused quite a stir, when he covered the fifth position at his first weekend in the Carrera Cup.

In the race on Sunday the new driver suffered from a bit of bad luck: “A competitor spun directly in front of me and therefore I lost a few positions,” he explains. He did not give up and started a very tough battle with the experienced Robert Lukas in front of the more than 200.000 spectators. “Both of us went to the absolute limit,” the 25-year-old looked back. He finished his debut race on a respectable tenth place.

Also Felipe Fernández Laser showed his potential and stood out due to his great fighting spirit during his second race weekend for Konrad Motorsport. But in the race the man from Hamburg unfortunately lost his front lip in a battle. From then on he had no chance to attack anymore. At the end he crossed the finish line on position 18. Team principal Frank Konrad was satisfied with the performance of his three drivers: “Christopher Zöchling had a really great debut for our team, while Christian Engelhart won many positions in the race,” was his conclusion. 

In two weeks the home race of the born Austrian Franz Konrad is on the schedule in Styria. There the next two championship runs of the Porsche Carrera Cup will be held at the Red Bull Ring. “Last year we celebrated the victory at that track,” he remembers the success from the previous season. But one week before, his team will participate at the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup’s season highlight in the Principality of Monaco.

All motorsport-fans, who were not able to follow the spectacular event at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, can watch http://www.buycialiscanadaonline.com the race again on German TV-Station “Sport1” on Monday, May 20, at 12:30 CEST. At the evening of the same day also “n-tv” will report about Germany’s fastest one make cup at 18:30 CEST.