Charlie Geipel closes off ADAC Procar season with fourth win
YACO Racing’s Charlie Geipel took his fourth win from four starts, while Heiko Hammel finished second, already celebrating Wolf Racing’s first title after his third place finish in yesterday’s race, in a wet race at the Sachsenring which finished behind the safety car.
Geipel crossed the line 3.5 seconds clear in his YACO Racing Toyota Auris, the ageing Super 2000 specification car which was built out of an ex Danish Touring Car Toyota Corolla almost a decade ago.
Hammel, racing in the new-for-2014 1.6 turbocharged Ford Fiesta, despite taking five wins earlier in the season, wasn’t able to compete for victory against the one-off appearances of the faster S2000 cars of Markus Huggler, Peter Rikli and Charlie Geipel which took part later in the season, but kept scoring points and managed to secure the title despite a valiant effort from Reinhard Nehls in the MINI John Cooper Works car, with the 63-year-old rounding off an excellent season with third in the final race.
Steve Kirsch, the Division 3 class champion, sealed off a great season with fourth overall in the final race, finishing ahead of the Division 1 class Ford Fiesta of former champion Johannes Leidinger.
In Division 2, Ralf Glatzel won the class ahead of Nils Mierschke, while Alexander Rambow, who had won the first 13 races of the season in a row and comfortably secured the title at the last meeting at the Nürburgring, finished fourth in class behind his ETH Tuning team-mate Andreas Rinke.
The Sachsenring was the final round of the 2014 ADAC Procar Series. The calendar for next season is still to be announced.
