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Schumacher beats Mawson in extremis on qualifying

ADAC Formel 4 - 6. Event 2016 - Nürburgring, GER - Foto: Gruppe C

Mick Schumacher set the pole position during the German F4 qualifying in Nürburgring, Germany. The son of Michael Schumacher beat in the last moment the dominance of Joey Mawson. Mike Ortmann finished second.

The racing activity of today started with the ADAC Formel 4 qualifying separated in two groups.

In the first one we could have seen that the guys who made two stints and not one, achieved the fastest times. Mike David Ortmann (ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.) was unbeatable in the last minutes and beat Niklas Nielsen (Neuhauser Racing) who showed a strong performance with second place.

Richard Verschoor (MotoPark), Red Bull junior driver is back this weekend in the series after his run in Orschersleben. The Dutch managed to finish third ahead of Juan Manuel Correa (Prema Powerteam) and Felipe Drugovich (Neuhauser Racing).

In the second group, with the experience from group one, the leaders made the strategy of two stints. Championship leader, Joey Mawson (Van Amersfoort Racing) dominated the whole session but with the checker flag on track, his opponent, Mick Schumacher (Prema Powerteam) managed to beat the VAR driver by 0.028 s.

Yesterday fastest in practice, Juri Vips from Prema Powerteam was third in the group after a great performance. The Estonian finished ahead of Thomas Praining (Lechner Racing), and Simo Laaksonen (Motopark).

Starting Grid for Race 1:

1 Schumacher 2 Ortmann

3 Mawson 4 Nielsen

5 Vips 6 Verschoor

7 Preining 8 Correa

9 Laaksonen 10 Drugovich

11 Fittje 12 Zendeli

13 Aberdein 14 Müller-Crepon

15 Laliberte 16 Schramm

17 Brandt 18 Van Uitert

19 Flörsch 20 Hoogenboom

21 Piro 22 Fernandez

23 Gachot 24 Esmeijer

25 Wolf 26 Scherer

27 Schreiner 28 Meikup

29 Bianchi 30 Soderstorm

31 Engstler 32 Kratz

33 Hanses 34 Estener

35 Halder