FEV Racing wins the opening round

Benedikt Gentgen and Arndt Hallmans have won the TCR class in the opening round of the VLN Langstrecken Meisterschaft at the Nürburgring in the FEV Racing CUPRA TCR.
After setting pole position in the morning, the pair covered 26 laps of the Nordschleife road course during the four-hour race and was classified 42^nd overall out of 157 starters.
Second place went to the Lubner Motorsport Opel Astra TCR shared by Rudolf Rhyn, Thomas Jäger and Thorsten Wolter, one lap behind, but 12 seconds clear of the third-placed Hyundai i30 N TCR of Gabriele Tarquini, Nicola Larini and Jaekyun Kim.
The other Lubner Motorsport Astra (Wulf-Thiele-Sidorenko) finished in fourth position ahead of the Bonk Motorsport Audi RS3 LMS (Bonk-Bock).
The second Hyundai that Tarquini and Larini shared with Manuel Lauck, was classified 6^th in the class after losing six laps in the pits for repairs after a crash.

The second round of the VLN will take place on 7^th April.