As you can see there was oil leak on track before and Barth said he spun out due to the white dust so it's very unlucky to drive a truck there... It still could've been done more precisely. Imagine F1 race, they won't call out the rescue car in middle of the lap but wait for all cars to catch the queue behind S/C and then do the job...
Even if Norbi's crash didn't look so bad, the damage is so bad that his Honda is 10% from being called totaled. Front suspension (both side) is broken, engine and gearbox also damaged, rear axis broken into half. As there are no spare parts (e.g complete rear axis, smaller parts like brake disc is not an issue of course), they're in an awkward situation. The worst thing is that the car must be shipped to Argentina today... They're still undecided what to do, they wouldn't have chance to prepare the car in Argentina. Most likely they'll bring the car home and try to rebuild it somehow.... Probably they'll miss Argentina as well. It's really a punch in the face for a small private team.
Well they're running Honda Civic from manufacture and Junior team in ETCC so I wouldn't say they're "small private team". Surely there are smaller ones.
Anyway this would be punch for any team, seems like Civic is "weak" in terms of damage from an impact...
Guys tune in for DTM race. Great action @ Norisring as ever.
Wickens vs Spengler battling for the lead as Mortara got better of them thru the SC period. and all sorts of gaggles down the order.
I was 100% sure Paffett would take a revenge... Already saw that coming when he accelerated out of last turn, slightly touching Mortara's left end. Few seconds later, BAM!
Yeah... Was a bad end to quiet a nice race... obviously Ekki and Mortara would have been miles ahead if there wasn't this blue flag rule. Hope Ekki keeps the win, there was an investigation on going about filling water into the car after chequered flag.
Due to an external addition of weight before it was officially measured, it is not possible to exactly determain the weight of the driver+car combination directly after the race. That's how the DMSB stewards at the Norisring argue. Audi wants to protest it, they have 48h, effective from the moment the exclusion was published, to formulate and file it. If the protest gets rejected, FIA and afterwards CAS are the next steps.
They could just say it was a random dude, I mean, he was dressed in civi gear afterall... The weight difference is so slim. I guess because Mathias stopped on circuit presumably to save as much fuel as possible they feared they'd be underweight but scrutinizing weight checks should be done with an empty car should it not?
