Why did Thomas Preining keep in his cockpit after taking his third Norisring DTM victory on Sunday, then unsteadily limp to his father as an alternative of leaping on the roof of his Porsche like he normally does?
“Sadly, I injured my ankle whereas operating within the woods at house three weeks in the past, then there have been two 24-hour races and now right here,” the Manthey driver instructed ran.de, referring to his main outings on the Nordschleife, Spa-Francorchamps and in Nuremberg inside three weeks. “That hasn’t healed so properly but. And now I’ve pushed the entire race with out air con.”
Air con prices energy, which Preining wanted dearly when combating Jack Aitken’s Ferrari for victory. “It simply will get tremendous sizzling in these automobiles,” he stated.
An important second was when the Austrian refused a soda bottle handed to him by the mechanic serving to him out of the cockpit; again in 2013, race winner Mattias Ekstrom had been disqualified on the identical observe when his father had poured the content material of a water bottle into his racing swimsuit’s pocket earlier than he’d been weighed.
Preining, who is aware of the rules, proceeded on to the weigh-in space after celebrating along with his workforce – however the cause why he stayed so lengthy in his cockpit was additionally linked to the water state of affairs, along with his personal onboard water bottle.
“Primarily, I used to be simply ingesting after I was in parc ferme,” he defined.
Podium: Race winner Thomas Preining, Manthey EMA
Photograph by: Alexander Trienitz
“The drink bottle formally is just not a part of the automobile. So it has to exit of the automobile for weigh-in. However you continue to carry the burden for the entire race. You wish to ensure you maintain it for the weigh-in. So it is in right here now,” Preining added, grabbing his abdomen.
The 2023 DTM champion, who’s seven factors behind standings chief Lucas Auer midway by the season, was not the one one who was utterly exhausted after the race.
Aitken didn’t let go of his bag of ice cubes throughout the post-race interviews. “My new finest buddy,” the Brit joked.
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