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WTCR Race of Germany essentials

With the WTCR - FIA World Touring Car Cup presented by OSCARO Nürburgring Nordschleife-bound from 10-12 May, this is some essential information for your WTCR Race of Germany weekend.

TRACK AND RACE DATA
Length: 25.378 kilometres
Race 1 distance: 3 laps (76.134 kilometres)
Race 2 distance: 3 laps (76.134 kilometres)
Race 3 distance: 3 laps (76.134 kilometres)
WTCR lap record (qualifying): To be established
TCR car lap record (qualifying): Andreas Gülden (Hyundai i30 N TCR), 9m03.206s, 15/04/18
WTCR lap record (race): To be established
TCR car lap record (race): Andreas Gülden (Hyundai i30 N TCR), 9m05.905s, 15/04/18

WTCR RACE OF GERMANY IN NUMBERS
7: Drivers racing at the Nürburgring have won seven World Touring Car titles between them
2: Thed Björk and Yvan Muller, now team-mates at the Hyundai-powered YMR team, are touring car winners at the Nürburgring Nordschleife having triumphed when the WTCC visited in the past
9m05.905s: Driving a Hyundai i30 N TCR, Andreas Gülden set a new standard for TCR cars at the Nordschleife when he took 9m05.905s to complete a lap of the track during the ADAC Zurich 24h-Rennen qualification race on 15 April. He'd earlier set a new qualifying best, a 9m03.206s.
13: Thirteen different nationalities will be represented at WTCR Race of Germany
24: All-season drivers will be permitted to use 24 Yokohama tyres at WTCR Race of Germany with the Japanese firm introducing a specific compound for the demanding track

FAST FACTS
1: The original Nordschleife opened in 1927 and was combined with the Südschleife at a length of 28.265 kilometres to hold the Eifelrennen events for bikes and cars.
2: Following on from the grands prix of the late 1920s, the 1931 German GP was held solely on the Nordschleife over a lap distance of 22.8 kilometres. Achille Varzi won in a Bugatti T51.
3: The adjacent Nürburgring Grand Prix track was opened in 1984 and also combines with the Nordschleife to hold the annual ADAC Zurich 24h Rennen, or the Nürburgring 24 Hours.
4: Germany shares borders with nine other countries - Denmark, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
5: Germany is Europe's second largest beer consumer - Germans drank 2.55 billion gallons of beer in 2012 - while there are more than 1200 breweries producing over 5000 brands of beer.

Zdroj: fiawtcr.com