Norwegian quartet wins the VLN’s fifth round

The 6-hour ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen, fifth round of the VLN series saw the Møller Bil Motorsport Audi RS3 LMS of Norwegian drivers Håkon Schjærin, Atle Gulbrandsen, Anders Lindstad and Kenneth Østvold victorious in the TCR class.
After setting pole position with a lap of 8:42.551 that gave them the 26^th position on the overall grid, the four from Norway completed 39 laps of the Nordschleife to be classified an outstanding 20^th overall out of the 162 cars that took the start.
Of the nine participants in the TCR class, only three took the chequered flag. Benedikt Gentgen, Martin Pischinger and Wolfgang Haugg finished second in the FEV Racing Cupra, one lap behind the winners, while the podium was completed by the Lubner Motorsport Opel Astra shared by Thorsten Wolter, Rudolf Rhyn, Thomas Jäger and Michael Brüggenkamp with 35 laps.
Among the retirees were the two Mathilda Racing cars – a Cupra and a Volkswagen Golf GTI – driven by the dominator of the TCR class Andreas Gülden and Morits Oestreich.
The sixth round of the series – the 41. RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen – will take place on September 1^st.