Nurburgring results

"D1 ADAC SUPER-TOUREN-WAGEN CUP '96" ROUND 8 AT NURBURGRING (short GP track)

Weather: cloudy, dry and cold, 6 deg.C - Spectators: 53,000

Sprint 18 laps ---------------- Start: Cecotto, Aiello, Soper, Pirro, Hahne lap 1: Heger spins, drops back to the end of the field. 3: Soper takes second from Aiello. Tamara Vidali spins off the track. Wendlinger into the runoff area. 4: Reid into the pits with a puncture left front, and out with a damaged suspesion left front. 7: Aiello takes back second position from Soper. Pirro and Hahne overtaking Soper. 8: Niedzwiedz also gets past Soper. 13: Cecotto too late on the brakes, Aiello and Pirro get past. 15: Hahne and Niedzwiedz get past Cecotto. 17: Pirro takes the lead.

FL: Johnny Cecotto 1:12.606 (=150:88 kph)

--------------------------Results STW-Sprint---------------------------- Pos Driver Team/Car Time ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Emanuele Pirro/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 22:16.055 2 Laurent Aiello/F Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 + 1.118 3 Armin Hahne/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 1.561 4 Klaus Niedzwiedz/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 2.358 5 Philipp Peter/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 5.999 6 Johnny Cecotto/YV BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 8.722 7 Kris Nissen/DK ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 8.827 8 Ivan Capelli/I Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 13.063 9 Marco Werner/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 13.339 10 Karl Wendlinger/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 21.359 11 Christian Abt/D ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 22.906 12 Altfrid Heger/D Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 24.965 13 Steve Soper/GB BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 25.871 14 Sascha Maassen/D Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 25.997 15 Ralf Kalaschek/D MIG Austria-Audi A4 27.655 16 Volker Strycek/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 28.208 17 Franz Engstler/D Scuderia Giudici-Alfa Romeo 155 35.676 18 Alexander Burgstaller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i 40.031 19 Roland Asch/D Team Schuebel-Ford Mondeo 40.223 20 Tamara Vidali/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 45.689 21 Christian Menzel/D Team Lauderbach-BMW 320i 48.740 22 Leopold von Bayern/D BMW Team Isert-BMW 320i 54.578 23 Marc Gindorf/D PMC Sports-BMW 318is 55.444 24 Claudia Huertgen/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo 1:04.962 25 Oliver Mayer/D Scuderia Giudici-Alfa Romeo 155 1:13.367 26 Warren Hughes/GB Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 1:14.030 27 Wolfgang Treml/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo -1 lap 28 Patrick Ulrich/CH Ulrich Motorsport-BMW 318i -1

Race 33 laps -------------- Start: Pirro, Aiello, Peter lap 1: Cecotto spins off after collision with Nissen, both out. Niedzwiedz out, rear damaged. 4: Collision between Abt and Capelli, both continue. 5: Soper drops back. 9: Hahne takes third from Peter. 14: Werner and Heger take Soper. 21: Menzel pits, electrical problems, out. 22: Heger brakes out Werner. 24: Soper pits with tyre problems, out. 25: Heger spins, drops back. 27: Stop and go penalty for Abt for leaving out a chicane. 28: Burgstaller puncture, out.

FL: Aiello 1:12.697 (=150.69 kph)

----------------------------Results STW-Race---------------------------- Pos Driver Team/Car Time ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Emanuele Pirro/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 40:33.436 2 Laurent Aiello/F Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 + 2.246 3 Armin Hahne/D Honda Team Linder-Honda Accord 6.583 4 Philipp Peter/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 7.282 5 Karl Wendlinger/A ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 19.278 6 Marco Werner/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 24.297 7 Tamara Vidali/I ROC-Competition/A.Z.K.-Audi A4 33.234 8 Altfrid Heger/D Peugeot Esso-Peugeot 406 39.602 9 Anthony Reid/GB Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 39.942 10 Sascha Maassen/D Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 43.944 11 Volker Strycek/D Team Holzer-Opel Vectra 45.466 12 Ralf Kalaschek/D MIG Austria-Audi A4 45.477 13 Ivan Capelli/I Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera 51.508 14 Christian Abt/D ABT Sportsline-Audi A4 1:12.927 15 Franz Engstler/D Scuderia Giudici-Alfa Romeo 155 -1 lap 16 Roland Asch/D Team Schuebel-Ford Mondeo -1 17 Claudia Huertgen/D Flash Power-Ford Mondeo -1 18 Leopold von Bayern/D BMW Team Isert-BMW 320i -1 19 Oliver Mayer/D Scuderia Giudici-Alfa Romeo 155 -1 20 Patrick Ulrich/CH Ulrich Motorsport-BMW 318i -1 21 Alexander Burgstaller/D BMW-Team Bigazzi-BMW 320i -6 22 Warren Hughes/GB Nissan Racing-Nissan Primera -6

Final standings:

Pos  Driver             Pts
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 1   Pirro              678
 2   Soper              491
 3   Aiello             422
 4   Abt                408
 5   Wendlinger         366
 6   Hahne              343
 7   Vidali             282
 8   Niedzwiedz         269
 9   Peter              256
10   Werner             234
11   Heger              223
12   Kalascheck         219
13   Nissen             214
14   Asch               188
15   Burgstaller        145
16   Maassen            166
17   Mueller            152
18   Reid               147
19   Engstler           135
20   Cecotto            118
21   Gindorf             93
22   Huertgen            82
23   Mamerow             78
24   von Bayern          67
25   Capelli             49
26   Ulrich              47
27   Gaggl               44
28   Treml               32
29   Strycek             25
30   Boutsen             21
     Mayer               21
32   Kraemer             16
33   Heigert             12
34   Menzel               9
35   Hughes               4

Manufacturers 1 Audi 1192 2 BMW 867 3 Peugeot 645 4 Honda 612 5 Nissan 343 6 Ford 317 7 Opel 259 8 Alfa Romeo 156