Last weekend the annual DTM season finale took place at the Hockenheimring and Johannes Seidlitz was fully motivated for the race weekend having a new helmet design. Johannes did his usual program in the roll-out. In Saturday’s morning free practice the track was wet at the beginning. The conditions were ok for Johannes. He did some laps on wet tyres after that he and the KOLLES Futurecom-TME – Team waited for the 4.574 km track to dry. At the end of the free practice Johannes did some laps on slick tyres although the track was still wet in some sectors. The qualifying didn’t go so well like it could have been. He lost his left earplug under the helmet. Without the earplug it was very loud and painful for Johannes and due to the time limit he had to do his two qualifying stints in those conditions. Johannes wasn’t satisfied with his qualifying because he wasn’t able to do a perfect lap in those conditions. Johannes did a long run in the warm-up on the damp track. He started the 39 lap race from P20. At the beginning of the race Johannes had to go round his team mate Christian Bakkerud who spun at the north corner (Nordkurve).

In the second lap Johannes overtook two competitors and was already on P16. In the meantime the 19-year-old driver was already on P15, was driving very well and with consistent and quick lap times. Johannes did his mandatory pit stops in lap 12 and 25. The stops were brilliant. After his first stop Johannes spun at turn 2 which costed him time. In lap 32 the safety car came on to the track because Susie Stoddart has hit the tyre piles in turn 1. The race was restarted in lap 36. Johannes did a great re-start and passed Christian Bakkerud. Johannes and his team mate Bakkerud fought shoulder to shoulder. The duel was hard but fair. After all Johannes finished just behind his experienced team mate and achieved with position 13 his best DTM result till now. “I am happy with the weekend. The race was great fun and I achieved my best result. Especially the duels in the race were super. I learned a lot this season and after all I am pleased. Let’s wait what is going to happen next year. My aim is to be in the DTM again. I would like to thank the whole KOLLES Futurecom-TME – Team for the great teamwork this season.“