DMV TCC: Strong results for the RS Tuning Audis at Monza

By Johan Laubscher

The DMV Touring Car Challenge headed to Monza for its eighth and penultimate round of the season. RS Tuning was entered with their two-car Audi R8 LMS ultra team.

RS Tuning returned to the eighth round with their two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars, driven by Suzanne Weidt (#88) and Dietmar Haggenmüller (#8). The RS Tuning Audi R8 LMS ultra cars feature the full 2013 specification, as they are allowed to run the original 2013 Audi R8 LMS ultra rear diffuser in the DMV TCC and the AvD 100 Melien.

A third Audi joined the gird this weekend. The ex-ROC French Supertourisme Audi 80 of Joachim Duscher was also entered.

During qualifying for the first race the highest Audi was that of Haggenmüller, who qualified twelfth overall and seventh in class. Weidt qualified seventeenth overall and eighth in class. The Audi 80 of Duscher was twenty-eighth overall, sixth in class.

Qualifying for race two again yielded Haggenmüller as the highest Audi, this time placing thirteenth overall, eighth in class. Weidt qualified nineteenth overall and ninth in class. Duscher was thirtieth overall, fifth in class.

Race one ended with Haggenmüller finishing fifth in class, placing tenth overall. Weidt finished sixteenth overall and seventh in class, whilst Duscher was unfortunately not classified as a finisher and also did not take part in the second race. Race two saw Haggenmüller finishing eighth overall, fifth in class and Weidt in fifteenth overall, seventh in class. 

The final round of the DMV TCC will be held at Hockenheim from 11-12 October.

Photo credit: Monza Motorsport / Stefano Ciabattoni

DMV TCC: Class podiums for two RS Tuning Audi R8 LMS ultra cars at Dijon

By Johan Laubscher

The DMV Touring Car Challenge headed to France this weekend, hosting round seven at Dijon. RS Tuning added a second Audi R8 LMS ultra to their arsenal for the event in France.

Two Audi cars were entered for the Dijon DMV TCC event, two Audi R8 LMS ultra cars from RS Tuning. The team has been running a single orange/white R8 LMS ultra for Suzanne Weidt in recent DMV TCC events, and they have also taken victory with the car in the AvD 100 Meilen at the Red Bull Ring. Both of the team’s cars are in full 2013 Audi R8 LMS ultra specification, with the original 2013 rear diffuser. The second car was driven by Suzanne Weidt this weekend, in a white and pink livery (#88), whilst Weidt’s older car, in the white and orange livery (#8), was driven by Dietmar Haggenmüller.

Qualifying for the first race saw Dietmar Haggenmüller placing seventh overall, fourth in his class. He backed this up by qualifying eighth overall for race two, again fourth in class. Suzanne Weidt qualified thirteenth (fifth in class) and eighteenth (fifth in class) for the two races respectively.

The wet races saw the RS Tuning squad achieving their best DMV TCC Audi results yet. Suzanne Weidt finished race one in sixth overall, taking third place in class 8. Her teammate Dietmar Haggenmüller repeated her success in race two, as he also scored sixth overall, again taking a third place in class for the team.

A great start for RS Tuning’s two car Audi R8 LMS ultra team. The DMV TCC will now be heading to Italy for the penultimate round of the season, which will be hosted at Monza in three weeks time. 

Photo credit: DMV TCC

DMV TCC: Suzanne Weidt Audi R8 LMS ultra back in Austria

By Johan Laubscher

The German DMV Touring Car Challenge was in Austria this weekend, hosting round six at the Red Bull Ring. The RS Tuning Audi R8 LMS ultra was entered at the event.

This weekend marked the second appearance of the white and orange RS Tuning Audi R8 LMS ultra in the DMV TCC, after Suzanne Weidt debuted the car at Hockenheim a few weeks ago.

Suzanne Weidt was again behind the wheel of the #8 Audi in Austria. The car continues to run with the original 2013 rear diffuser, as has been the case for all the 2013 Audi R8 LMS ultra cars which have competed in the DMV TCC this season. The car was also entered in the AvD 100 Meilen races at the Red Bull Ring, where it compete with the #88 on its side.

In Austria there was more than just one Audi on the DMV TCC gird. Two more Audi teams joined the series for this event. The first entrant was Joachim Duscher, a regular STT competitor, in his ex-ROC Audi 80. The second team was Christoph Düpré in the Düpré Motorsport Audi RS 5, which has also been seen in the VLN and Nürburgring 24 Hours this year.

Qualifying for the first race saw Weidt in twenty-fifth place overall, Duscher in twenty-ninth and Düpré in fortieth. The grid for the second race saw Weidt in nineteenth overall, twenty-sixth for Duscher and thirty-ninth for Düpré.

Suzanne Weidt was the highest ranked Audi during the races, achieving twenty-third overall in race one. Duscher finished raced one in twenty-sixth (first in class).

The Red Bull Ring weekend's results can be seen HERE.

Round seven of the DMV TCC will head to France in September, which will be hosted at Dijon.

Photo credit: DMV TCC

DMV TCC: New Audi R8 LMS ultra for Suzanne Weidt

By Johan Laubscher

The DMV Touring Car Challenge (DMV TCC) hosted round five at Hockenheim this weekend. This championship features a variety of race cars, including GT3 cars. A new Audi R8 LMS ultra team was present this weekend.

Suzanne Weidt has been a regular competitor in the DMV TCC, driving an Ascari GT3 from RS Tuning. This weekend was the first appearance of their brand new race car, a new full specification 2013 Audi R8 LMS ultra. The DMV allows the R8 LMS ultra to use the 2013 spec rear diffuser, thus this is one of only a few appearances this year, where an Audi R8 LMS ultra has been seen in the full original 2013 specification. All the other FIA GT3 class championships require the 2013 Audis to run the older diffuser, as per the final FIA homologation. More about the homologation can be read HERE, and more about the 2013 R8 LMS ultra HERE.

The RS Tuning Audi R8 LMS ultra was the only Audi entered in this event this weekend. It was a learning experience for Suzanne Weidt, as she got to grips with the new Audi. She qualified twenty-third for race one and twenty-second for race two. She unfortunately dropped back in race one and finished the second race, after progressing well, in nineteenth.

It is always great to see new Audi Sport customer racing teams in a diversity of racing championships.

The  DMV TCC will head to the Red Bull Ring in Austria for the next round which will be held in August.

Photo credit: DMV Touring Car Challenge