THE MOTORSPORT LAP
Local young star takes victory at Nurburgring
South African victory at the Nurburgring 24hr race and allegations of team orders in Monaco
We have reason to celebrate this week after a South African won the legendary Nurburgring 24hr race for the first time. Young racing ace Kelvin van der Linde put in a great race and took the Audi R8 LMS to overall victory in spite of inclement weather conditions. Van der Linde, together with his team-mates, Christopher Mies (Germany), Connor De Phillippi (US) and Markus Winkelhock (Germany), won the 45th edition of this endurance race. This if nothing else has shown the tenacity, talent and dedication of the young South African driver and his victory is likely enough to see him, at the very least, nominated as the 2017 South African Motorsportsman of the Year in our opinion. Van der Linde’s victory even eclipsed one of the glitziest races on the Formula One (F1) calendar, the Monaco GP. It saw the Ferrari team yet again finishing trumps with its leading driver, Sebastian Vettel taking victory. He was followed in second by his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, who felt he was hard done by th...
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