Jens Weimann continues his unbeaten run at Oschersleben

It’s now half way through the 2012 ADAC Procar Series season, and Jens Weimann is still undefeated in the Super 2000 class, having won all eight races so far this year. Meanwhile in Super 1600, there was a new winner at least in the first race, with Lennart Marioneck taking his first win for Engstler Motorsport.

In the first race of the day at the Oschersleben circuit, Weimann led away from Paul Green’s Liqui-Moly Team Engstler BMW and began to build a gap in his Thate Motorsport-run BMW 320si, but the gap was quickly eliminated when the safety car came out on lap three as Bodo Cordes Chevrolet Aveo had rolled over and needed to be recovered.

At the restart, Paul Green was a little too eager to take advantage of the situation and passed Weimann before the safety car line, as a result earning himself a drive through penalty.

With Green out of the way, Weimann went on to take his seventh win of the season, finishing just 1.5 seconds ahead of Milenko Vukovic’s BMW with Michael Meyer 10 seconds down. Paul Green ended up 11th overall, though will still pick up the points for finishing fourth in the Super 2000 class.

Yury Krauchuk had taken pole position in the Super 1600 class in the Ravenol Team SAN Ford Fiesta, but was passed at the start by Lennart Marioneck in the identical Fiesta run by Liqui-Moly Team Engstler. The 23-year-old from Bamberg went on to take his first class win to end Guido Thierfelder’s season long winning streak.

Krauchuk finished in second place, whilst Thierfelder took the points for third in class and sixth overall in his ETH Tuning Peugeot 207 Sport.

In the second race, with the grid formed up as the cars had finished in race one, Weimann led away again with Vukovic in tow, and took his eighth consecutive win of the year, finishing just 1.4 seconds ahead of Vukovic with Paul Green moving up from 11th on the grid to finish third.

The slightly wet conditions in race two seemed to favour the experienced Thierfelder in the S1600 class, and the 42-year-old took his seventh class win of the season, despite a late challenge by Yury Krauchuk. The young Belarussian overshot the corner however and gave away second place to race one winner Marioneck, with Krauchuk dropping to fifth in class by the chequered flag.

The weekend turned out to be a total disaster for the Maurer Motorsport team, with Wilson Borgnino unable to make the start of race one and Bodo Cordes destroying his Chevrolet Aveo on the third lap and wouldn’t make race two. Although Borgnino was able to take part in race two, he would retire after the first lap.

Jens Weimann now leads the S2000 classification with 80 points with Paul Green 33 points behind on 47 after Oschersleben. Guido Thierfelder continues to lead in the S1600 class with 76 points, 25 ahead of Nils Mierschke, with Ralf Glatzel and Lennart Marioneck 31 and 32 points behind respectively.

The next round of the ADAC Procar Series is on August 12th at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.