Kickback for Philipp Öttl in Brno
After the summer break, which ended at the Grand Prix of Austria in Zeltweg, the team is facing a tight schedule. Three World Cup races have to be completed in the next four weeks. From Steierark went on to the Czech Republic Grand Prix in Brno. The 5.4km course in 1987 and rebuilt with the exception of 1992 World Cup run was always there discharged.
After finishing fifth in Zeltweg, has improved by three places to rank 14 Philipp Öttl from team Schedl GP Racing in the standings. Just 0,6 seconds separated him from the winner. The lowest residue on the winners, since he is in the World Cup. In Brno he danced in the training a strong performance. On both days of training he Place to eighth place. During Friday and Saturday ruled perfect weather conditions, it rained heavily on Sunday morning.
The first lap ended the 20-year-old on the 16th Place. In front of him was already a gap of one second. But then Philip came with the wet conditions cope better and found a very good rhythm. He quickly caught up with strong lap times.
After he Sachsenring had problems with a misted visor already been revised his helmet for these difficult conditions. Nevertheless, he had from the eighth lap again problems with the vision. His lap times deteriorated back to more than two seconds, and he much up to place 22nd Many competitors went under slippery conditions errors and so the Ainringer could still enter with rank 15 a point. In the overall ranking he lost two places.
Philipp Öttl:"I am very disappointed with this race result. In these two wet races we lost many points. Just as I was able to
recover, started the vision problems. I had the opportunity yet to go far forward. The track was wet good grip and my feeling for was better in each round. "
