The biggest success to date is perfect: The team ALL-INKL.COM Muennich Motorsport from Friedersdorf added in the first race of the FIA GT1 World Championship 2011 on Saturday night (March 26) in Abu Dhabi (UAE) retracted his first podium finish in the World Cup at all. Newcomer Markus Winkelhock (Berglen-Steinach) and Marc Basseng (Neusalza-Spremberg) were on the track Lamborghini Murciélago LP670 in the Yas Marina RS-V with start number 38 in the third one-hour Championship Race. In the morning, the duo had also occupied in the one-hour qualifying race in sixth position and brought to the first point of the new season.
“This result is simply sensational. Then the whole team has been working. We are all overjoyed,” said René Munnich, the team manager and owner of the racing team from Saxony. And the comeback of the team’s sister car # 37 with Nicky Pastorelli (Italy / Netherlands) and Dominik Schwager (Munich) from the end of the field to eleventh place was Munnich as “excellent.” “It was just a shame that her performance was not rewarded with points. Because after a perfect pit stop, jumped out the main fuse, wanted to get going as Dominik. It cost 40 seconds and the possible fourth place,” said René Munnich.
Pastorelli had seen on Friday in qualifying with pole position, already a sensation. However, he could along with Schwager the qualifying race from 6th tackle, because in the first section of qualifying, a flag signal was not observed and the duo was set back five grid places. In the race Dominik Schwager was involved in a startup crash, said Munnich, Lamborghini has been damaged. The mechanics have worked to stop to repair the champion for the second run, which worked out at the last minute. “For that alone they deserve the championship points,” said Munnich.
And even on the night of Saturday, the team had a lot of work with the screws, because the Lamborghini # 38 of Basseng / Winkelhock had the gear to be changed. Marc Basseng, who is also team manager of ALL-INKL.COM Muennich Motorsports was started on Saturday morning from position 14 in the qualifying race and handed the car to just under half an hour to seventh on Markus Winkelhock, who then ran in sixth place. Even greater than the joy of the first item a few hours later was the acclaim for the first podium for the ups and downs of emotions at the start to the season. “This is just fantastic. For me, everything was new. I thank Marc and the entire team,” said Winkelhock. Basseng and added: “It is unbelievable after all the trouble we stood on the podium, which is a perceived victory Markus has delivered a fantastic debut Big thanks to all the mechanics and the entire team for the great work….”
Team boss René Munnich looks after that kick off the World Cup encouraged to make his racing team to be a player in the award of the World Cup title this year, a word belonging. After weekend with a laughing and a crying eye, the view looks forward to the next race on 9 and 10 April at the Belgian Zolder. There we want to arrive well with both cars in front. “
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