The race weekend at the Nürburgring began for Johannes Seidlitz in his AUDI A4 DTM 07 with a roll-out as always on Friday. Johannes used the roll-out to get familiar with the 3.629 km long short configuration of the Nürburgrings.

In Saturday’s free practice Johannes did 50 laps and was able to do similiar times like his team mates and improved constantly. Furthermore pit stop practice was on the schedule with his KOLLES Futurecom-TME-Team. In qualifying Johannes didn’t get along with his first set of tyres. He wasn’t able to show his performance like he wanted to. With his second set of tyres it went much better like in Oschersleben. In the first sector his time was four tenth of a second quicker. In total Johannes improved his qualifying time and ended on the 19th starting position. With this result he placed himself  in between his team mates Christan Bakkerud and Tomas Kostka, who ended up on P18 and P20.
In the warm-up on Sunday morning the last preparations for the race were done. Directly after the warm up Johannes had a press conference where he announced his partnership with the children project “Arche e.V.” and “VeggieTales”.

The race took place in midsummery temperatures over 30° Celsius. Johannes had a good start and also the first race lap was immaculate. He closed the gap to his team mate Christian Bakkerud who was in front of him. Gary Paffett, Maro Engel and Susie Stoddart were behind Johannes at the beginning of the race. Paffett in his Mercedes C-class 09 knocked on the rear of Johannes’ Audi and passed him. A short time later Johannes had to let Engel and Stoddart pass as well. In lap 14 Johannes came to the pits for his first stop, in lap 33 he did his second stop. Both pit stops worked well. Johannes performed well in the race, he used his brain and did his best DTM result for now.
In front of 86.000 spectators Johannes crossed the finish line after 48 laps on 14th place just behind his experienced team mate Christian Bakkerud. Johannes was pleased with his performance at the Nürburgring. ”It was a good weekend. I could improve and everything worked faultlessly. At the next race it has to work as well as here. I was fine with the heat but it was a hard race. It was my best DTM race for now. I am looking forward to the next race in Brands Hatch. In March 2008 I have won my first race in the Formel Renault BARC Championship in Brands Hatch (England). We did the nearly 2km “Indy-configuration“ which will be driven in the DTM.“

The next round of the DTM will take place in Brands Hatch (England) on the 6th of September 2009.