Johannes Seidlitz entered his third DTM weekend of his young career at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. From now on he is back after a two-race break. The race weekend started for the 19 –year old with the 30minute roll-out on Friday evening. Slowly but surely Johannes got familiar with his Audi A4 DTM 07 and got a better feeling lap by lap.

Saturday morning Johannes used the 150 minutes of the free practice well and did 56 laps in total. Continuously he improved and inter alia he did a long run of 17 laps on the 3.696 km circuit as well as two shorter “long runs“. Furthermore Johannes and his KOLLES Futurecom-TME-crew practiced pit stops at the beginning of the free practice which went well.

Saturday midday’s qualifying didn’t go so well for Johannes on his first set of tyres. Therefor the second set of tyres worked better and Johannes was happy about his improvement in qualifying.
Sunday’s race start didn’t go well for Johannes but in the first lap he could close the gap to his team mate Tomas Kostka. In lap four Johannes suddenly noticed a problem and did an unscheduled pit stop. The team had a look but couldn’t see any problem and so Johannes was sent back on the track. When he was back on the track the same problem was still there. He couldn’t steer the car correctly and could hardly go in a straight line. At the end of lap 6 Johannes came again to the pits. Due to a technical problem he decided to finish the race early in the pit.

Johannes said about his DTM weekend in the Magdeburger Boerde the following: ”I am glad to be back in the DTM. Sadly it was only a short race for me today. Although I have continuously improved myself since Friday. Now I am looking forward to the next round at the Nürburgring.“
From the 14th till the 16th of August the DTM will take place on the Grand Prix circuit in the Eifel.