– Shock for the Land team: The traditional team from the Westerwald, which returned from Audi to Porsche in the DTM this year, is disqualified after rookie Bastian Buus’s strong fourth place in the Saturday race in Zandvoort (race report)! The reason is that the Porsche 911 GT3 R with the starting number 29 was underweight.
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This is what the technical commissioners found out during the post-race inspection. According to this, the car should have weighed at least 1,332 kilograms but only weighed 1,328.5 kilograms. Even with the two-kilogram tolerance, the car was still 1.5 kilograms underweight.
For the young Dane, this is a severe setback, as he loses his best DTM result so far, after he was stronger than both drivers of the Porsche top team Manthey in Zandvoort, as he was on Sunday in Spielberg.
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With the underweight, the team violates Article 26.1 of the Sporting Regulations. It clarifies that the required minimum weight of a vehicle without driver and without fuel results from the minimum weight according to the Balance of Performance (BoP), the driver ballast, and the onboard camera weight.
This is also the reason why the team significantly exceeded the BoP weight of the Porsche 911 GT3 R Evo of 1,315 kilograms and was still disqualified. The result is clear, as the car was weighed three times on the Dekra box scale during the technical inspection to be absolutely sure.
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