The Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse team continues to be successful since Liam Lawson took his third podium in the DTM and thus repeated the second place on Saturday while his team-mate Alex Albon finished fifth and eleventh at the 4.570 km long Lausitzring.
Liam Lawson celebrates two podium places at the Lausitzring
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In the Saturday race, both drivers had to stay calm. Starting from positions five (Lawson) and seven (Albon), they kept their Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 out of the turbulence in the first half of the race before they made up ground after their pit stops. Red Bull Junior Team driver Lawson was rewarded for his flawless performance with second place and Albon improved by two positions over the course of the race and crossed the finish line in fifth.
Sunday started promisingly again with an impressive second place in qualifying for Lawson. Red Bull Racing F1 test driver Albon was less than three tenths of a second slower, but had to be content with 13th place in the well-balanced DTM field. Lawson briefly led the race before eventually finishing second.
“It’s great that we got a lot of points in both races,” said Lawson. “After the start, I thought we might get our second win, but then I stalled the car at the pit stop. I’m sorry for the team. The key in Saturday’s race was the super-fast pit stop that put me back in the top group and allowed me to finish right at the front. It was fantastic to drive on this layout, even if it didn’t exactly match our car. “
Liam Lawson laps the Lausitzring
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Alex Albon’s distinctive AlphaTauri car in the box
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Alex Albon in the Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse team garage
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Liam Lawson quickly becomes the star of the DTM
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The Red Bull AF Corse have brought F1-style pit stops to the DTM
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Albon crossed the finish line in eleventh after having made up two places again in the course of the second race. “It was definitely not an easy weekend for us,” he said. “When we had clean air ahead of us, the pace was there, but it was a real challenge in traffic. In the first race I was fifth for almost the entire race. Overtaking wasn’t really possible. Second, in race two, the pit stop did not go according to plan. “
Lawson is now second in the DTM driver championship with 65 points and Albon is fifth with 31 points. Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse leads the team standings with 96 points after four races. Next in the 2021 DTM season is Zolder, Belgium, from August 6th to 8th, 2021.
DTM Lausitzring 2nd run: Race 1 results
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Philip Ellis (SUI) – Mercedes-AMG Team Winward
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Liam Lawson (NZL) – Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse
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Mike Rockenfeller (GER) – Team ABT Sportsline
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Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) – Team ABT Sportsline
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Alex Albon (THA) – Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse
DTM Lausitzring Race 2: Results Race 2
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Maximilian Götz (GER) – Mercedes-AMG Team HRT
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Liam Lawson (NZL) – Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse
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Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) – Team Abt Sportsline
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Philip Ellis (SUI) – Mercedes-AMG Team Winward
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Sheldon van der Linde (RSA) – ROWE Racing
