{"id":58619,"date":"2021-05-21T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/index.php\/2021\/05\/21\/cws-engineering-takes-tce-pole-position-at-hockenheim\/"},"modified":"2021-05-21T11:30:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:30:45","slug":"cws-engineering-takes-tce-pole-position-at-hockenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/cws-engineering-takes-tce-pole-position-at-hockenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"CWS Engineering takes TCE pole position at Hockenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">CWS Engineering has come out on top of a frenetic battle for TCE pole position for this weekend\u2019s 12H HOCKENHEIMRING ahead of title contenders Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing and AC Motorsport.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The AC Motorsport Audi RS3 LMS (#188, St\u00e9phane Perrin \/ Mathieu Detry \/ Stefan Wieninger) was the first of the TCE runners to set a truly blistering lap \u2013 a 1m 51.014s \u2013 halfway through the division\u2019s dedicated 30-minute qualifying session, although this time was quickly bested by the CWS Engineering Ginetta G55 (#278, Colin White \/ Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Brunot).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">AC Motorsport fell out of contention with 10 minutes of the session left to run, however, when Mathieu Detry beached the Audi in the gravel at turn two, bringing out a brief red flag. The Audi was recovered quickly, but the Belgian team took no further part in TCE qualifying. Detry\u2019s pace was still fastest enough to secure AC Motorsport 3rd&nbsp;on the grid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That left CWS Engineering and the two Autorama Motorsport Volkswagens as the main challengers for pole position, a 1m 49.819s from CWS eventually putting TCE pole position out of reach. This marks CWS Engineering\u2019s first TCE pole in the 24H SERIES since last year\u2019s 24H DUBAI.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR DSG (#112, Rhys Lloyd \/ Christoph Hurni \/ Christoph Lenz \/ Yannick Mettler) will start alongside CWS Engineering on the front row courtesy of the Swiss team\u2019s final flying lap, while the sister VW (#1, Constantin Kletzer \/ Jasmin Preisig \/ Emil Heyerdahl) will start 4th. The latter currently leads the Overall TCE Teams\u2019 championship standings by just one point.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The GSR Motorsport Volkswagen Golf GTi TCR (#105, Ernesta Globyt\u0117 \/ Rokas Kvedaras \/ Rolandas Salys \/ Rimvydas Savickas) will make its first series start since 2019 from 5th&nbsp;on the grid. An early contender for pole position, Autorama Motorsport SEAT Le\u00f3n Cup Racer V1 DSG (#211, Luigi Stanco \/ Armando Stanco \/ Dario Stanco) will start 6th ahead of TCX class rival, the Munckhof Racing BMW M4 GTR (#210, Eric van den Munckhof \/ Marco Poland).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The TOPCAR Sport CUPRA TCR DSG (#131, Ronny Jost \/ Fabian Danz \/ Ruedi Jost) was the first of the TCE runners to set a hot lap in the opening moments. Less than a minute after it had done so though, Ronny Jost ground to a halt on-track with suspected clutch problems. The CUPRA took no further part in the session, and will start from the back row of the grid.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWS Engineering has come out on top of a frenetic battle for TCE pole position for this weekend\u2019s 12H HOCKENHEIMRING ahead of title contenders Autorama Motorsport by Wolf-Power Racing and AC Motorsport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-24h"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}