Rene Rast charged to an unchallenged victory within the DTM on the Nurburgring on Sunday, however the Schubert BMW driver had one main second of concern throughout the first pitstop.
“Once I arrived there, there was no person there besides my lollipop. And the mechanics weren’t there,” he mentioned after the race.
The incident wasn’t fairly as dangerous as Rast described it within the post-race press convention. TV footage confirmed that his crew was already within the pitbox, however the mechanic on the left-hand aspect of the automotive was solely simply taking the wheel gun off its stand.
“So, we misplaced a little bit of time at that cease. I do not know what went improper there,” Rast added. “It is fairly uncommon to reach there and simply to see the lollipop man and no tyres. Clearly, I knew I had an enormous hole to Ben [Dorr]. However I do not know the way lengthy the pitstop was.”
The Schubert BMW driver estimated he “most likely misplaced three, 4 seconds or extra,” and in actuality it was stationary for 9.4 seconds, whereas Dorr’s cease lasted 9.8s, however Schubert BMW team-mate Marco Wittmann’s first cease took simply 6.4s.
René Rast, Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3
Picture by: Alexander Trienitz
However why was the Schubert crew, usually recognized for flawless pitstops, not prepared in any respect?
“The decision got here slightly late as a result of we did not know precisely what Lucas Auer was doing earlier than,” workforce principal Torsten Schubert instructed Motorsport.com sister website Motorsport-Whole.com. “That is why it wasn’t clear by which order we might pit. After which the decision for the crew to exit got here slightly too late.
“Sadly, that was a small fake pas within the race. However fortunately the 2 seconds did not harm us as a result of the hole was [big enough]. I then instructed everybody, guys, all the pieces’s effective, all the pieces’s secure, now we have sufficient of a lead.”
Regardless of the scare, Rast rejoined the observe nonetheless within the lead after the primary cease, permitting him to make good use of his tyre benefit following Saturday’s start-line crash and cruise to his thirtieth DTM victory.
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