For the first time the DTM was at the 3.801km circuit in Burgundy last weekend. Johannes Seidlitz started optimistically into the race weekend which began for him as always with a roll-out on Friday. Johannes and the KOLLES Futurecom-TME – Team did pit stop practice which worked well. Furthermore Johannes tried to do as many laps as possible till the end of the roll-out. The free practice took place in wet conditions. For Johannes it was difficult because he has never driven a DTM race car in the wet. To complicate matters further the circuit Dijon-Prenois is a very fast race track. Johannes did several short stints and together with his engineer he analysed the so important data. In total he did 43 laps. The first priority was not to do fast laps but to collect data. Johannes was satisfied with the practice in the wet. The stints were good and he learned a lot. The qualifying took place in dry conditions and Johannes got along. “The qualifying worked well for me. I was able to improve with my second set of tyres and I was only a bit behind Tomas Kostka.“ Johannes started the race from P19 in front of his team mate Christian Bakkerud.

Johannes did a long run in the warm-up before the race which worked well. The start of the race wasn’t so good for Johannes. He couldn’t see the starting lights and his engineer had to tell him on the radio when to start. In the first lap he stayed away from all quarrelings. In lap ten there was a duel between Katherine Legge and Christian Bakkerud. The result of the duel was that Bakkerud turned around into the gravel. A few seconds later the misfortune happened. “I missed the breaking point which caused me going off line onto the dirty part of the track and the rear of my car slipped.“ So Johannes turned backwards into the gravel with his race car and hit the car of his team mate Christian Bakkerud who was unluckily still in the gravel of turn one. That meant the end of the race. “In my opinion my weekend was planed totally different but I have learned a lot. The car will be ready again for Hockenheim.“

The DTM season finale will take place at the Hockenheimring from the 23rd to the 25th October.