29 September 2002

Danish Touring Car Championship - Jyllands Ringen

Carsten Leveau bagged his best two finishes of the season in the final round of the championship this weekend at Jyllands-Ringen. Carsten was the only one of the Team Brask Denmark drivers to break into the top ten in qualifying - he put the Peugeot 406 around in 48.272 seconds to take 9th place and qualify for the 'Super Pole' shootout. Gunnar Kristensen just pipped Team Brask team mate Thorkild Thyrring to 16th place in the grid. Carsten maintained 9th place in the final leg of qualifying prior to the sprint race.

In the sprint race Carsten came home in seventh position. Gunnar was 15th ahead of Thorkild in 17th. In the feature race he bagged a very creditable fifth place behind a who's who of international motorsport - the winner Jan Magnussen, Kurth Thiim, Henrik Larsen and Jason Watt. Thorkild and Gunnar both retired from the race.

Congratulations go to Jason Watt on winning the championship!

Team Brask's three points scoring Peugeots also helped the manufacturer to win the 2002 constructor's title, but individually we were 14th, 16th and 18th in the final standings. Team Brask shareholder and former Le Mans winner John Nielsen finished third in the final table.

Dif takes a win...

New Brask Management shareholder Rene Dif, the former lead singer of Aqua, now a solo-artist, won a kart race on our track in Sturup, Sweden. He beat a group of other celebrities and business people including Jac Nelleman, who competed in F1 back in 1976. Jac set the third fastest lap ever of the circuit, but Rene's aggressive and sometimes pushy style gave him the overall honours after the hour long race last Friday (27th October). Rene will be hoping for another winner when his new single is released in two weeks time.