DTM title contender Auer believes he had 'no chance' of fighting for the championship in the Hockenheim finale due to his success ballast.
Auer had closed the gap to his BMW rival to just two points with victory in Saturday’s opening race, but this left him with 25kg of additional weight on his car for the all-important finale.
Speaking after his narrow championship defeat, Auer felt there was little he could do to overhaul van der Linde’s points lead as he struggled to derive performance out of his heavily-ballasted car. Championship podium: Champion Sheldon van der Linde, Schubert Motorsport, second place Lucas Auer, Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD, third place Rene Rast, Team ABT Sportsline, Thorsten Schubert, Team principal Schubert MotorsportMost of the drivers including title contenders Auer and van der Linde didn’t get a chance to show their true one-lap pace in qualifying after the session was cut short with two minutes and 25 seconds left on the clock due to a crash for Red Bull’s Felipe Fraga.
Asked how the race would have panned out had he had started inside the top five, Auer said: “At least I could have made everything a lot harder for Sheldon, of course, because if he wanted to pass me it would have been quite tough.
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