Young Driver AMR: Pole Position at the Nürburgring

The success of the Young Driver AMR team continued in Saturday’s Qualifying on home turf at the Nürburgring. Darren Turner and Tomas Enge took Pole Position in the #7 Young Driver AMR Aston Martin DBR9 for the sixth round of the GT1 World Championship. Both Young Driver AMR Aston Martin made it in the final Q3, Christoffer Nygaard and Stefan Mücke will start from 8th place.

Both Aston Martin had no problems surviving Q1 and did even better in Q2 with a clean sweep of first and second. In Q3 Darren Turner took his second Pole-Position of the season, while Christoffer Nygaard sat out Q3 to save the tires for tomorrows championship race.

“It’s a little like Silverstone this weekend“, Darren Turner said. „The Nürburgring is a classic Grand Prix-track, smooth and without bumps, this and the cool temperatures suit our car quite well. Our goal was to make it to Q3, and to take the Pole here is an extra special”.

“As always on the Nürburgring, the weather played an important role“, Tomas Enge stated after Qualifying. “I hope it will be dry for he race. The Aston Martin DBR9 is a car which is very sensitive on different kinds of circuits. This is a track the car really likes.“