🗣️'We were always kind of in the mix but never competitive enough to win races from our own pace.' Outgoing Audi driver Rene Rast has his say after missing out on a fourth DTM title by just 15 points at Hockenheim last weekend ⬇️
Abt driver Rast put together a credible title challenge on his return to the DTM after a year away in Formula E, scoring one win, six podiums and three poles with the updated Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II.
“It's not easy for those decision makers to have the right measurements all the time so you cannot say they did a bad job. They try their best as well. “I always kind of kept it on track, did the right strategy calls. In the end it wasn't enough, but that is how it is sometimes.”Rast needed to win Sunday’s final race at Hockenheim after scoring pole position to have any chance of snatching the crown from van der Linde, but lost the lead at the start to a fast-charging Wittmann.
It was all for nothing though as Rast ran wide into the Turn 5 kink on the following lap, allowing Wittmann back through to claim his first win of the season. “But I think it was hard but fair even though we touched a lot of times. But that is what we want to see in DTM, hard racing. It was all under control.
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