– The DTM has adjusted the Balance of Performance (BoP) after Saturday’s qualifying in Zandvoort – and this affects the two Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo of the Emil Frey team, who are in the first starting row: While the weight remains the same, the boost pressure for the mid-engine turbo vehicle is reduced.
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And significantly so: While in the low rpm range between 4,000 and 4,500 revs it is only 0.02 bar less than before, from 5,500 revs it is between 0.05 and mostly 0.06 bar.
This should negatively affect the acceleration and top speed in the Saturday race for pole-sitter Matteo Cairoli and the local hero.
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After qualifying, in which Landgraf-Mercedes driver Lucas Auer was 0.417 seconds behind Cairoli in third place, he said on ran.de: “The two Ferraris have been on another planet since yesterday.” Cairoli had already been fastest in Friday’s practice.
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Apart from the Ferrari, the classification of the cars in the Netherlands remains unchanged. This is already the third change, as on Thursday evening before the weekend there was an adjustment to the Lamborghini’s rear wing, thus deviating from the originally published baseline BoP a week earlier.
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