Mikaël Grenier at Red Bull Ring this weekend
FIRST TIME FOR MIKAËL AT THE RED BULL RING BUT PREPARED AHEAD WITH SIMULATOR WORK IN PREPARATION FOR ROUNDS 7 & 8 OF GT OPEN
“I am very much looking forward to race at the Red Bull Ring as I have not been there before and I always really enjoy driving on new tracks. I will prepare accordingly in the Simulator at the Emil Frey Racing workshop and should be ready. Norbert knows the track very well and it´s his home race, so he will try everything to win there. So far, we have done a good job and just needs to keep pushing.”
The drivers Albert Costa Balboa from Spain alongside his Italian team-mate Giacomo Altoèare beefed-up ahead of the next round, following the disappointing retirement of the number 63 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO at the last race at Spa-Francorchamps – especially, since the #63 has no time handicap for the first race. Despite having to add an additional 15 seconds penalty to their pitstop time, the sister car number 14, with Norbert Siedler celebrating his home race, and the Canadian Mikael Grenier, proofed at Spa already that even a longer obligatory pitstop enables the pair to head onto the podium.
The fight for the title is also heating-up since the last race at Belgium and will continue in front of a picturesque setting in Austria. Although the Emil Frey Racing drivers have lost the lead of the driver´s championship, they are close to the top with one points respective three points in the positions two and three.
The next stage after Spa-Francorchamps is the Red Bull Ring, also suited within a mountain panorama at a height of about 700 metres. The technically demanding track is about 50 kilometres outside Graz and offers great diversity around 4.326 kilometres track with a 12 percent height difference.
The highly anticipated weekend is beginning on Friday, 12thJuly 2019 with two free practice sessions. The first qualifying is taking place at 11:30 am, followed by the 70-minute race at 5:50 pm on Saturday, 13thJuly 2019. The second qualifying will go underway at 08:50 am on Sunday, 14thJuly 2019, with the second race for one hour starting at 02:15 pm. All sessions, qualifying and races are broadcast live by GT Open via: https://www.youtube.com/user/GTOPENseries
Excerpt from press release and image: Emil Frey Racing
