Fresh off his latest DTM race win, Kiwi driver Nick Cassidy and his Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse team are at home this weekend at the Red Bull Ring for the latest round of the DTM Championship ( September 23-25).
The showdown in Spielberg marks the penultimate weekend on the DTM calendar, and with the championship still up for grabs, teams and drivers will be desperate to make a move before the season finale. Expect high-speed action that’s flat out and all in.
With the milestone of Nick Cassidy’s maiden DTM win at Spa-Francorchamps not even two weeks old, the New Zealand driver and his Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse teammate Felipe Fraga of Brazil look forward to the championship’s seventh race weekend with “a lot of confidence” – and they’ll have the support of a home crowd as well.
“I’m really excited to be heading for our home race at the Red Bull Ring,” commented Cassidy. “It’s one of the tracks on the calendar that in theory should be great for us. We’ll attack like always and coming in with a lot of confidence from Spa is really nice as well. So we’ll do our best and hopefully get back on the podium.”
Cassidy delivered a masterful performance at the legendary Circuit de Spa Francorchamps, driving his #37 Ferrari with the livery of Red Bull’s premium fashion brand, AlphaTauri, to his career-first win in the high-powered GT3 series.
The Red Bull Ring is positioned nearly 700 m above sea level, and a special feature of the 4.318-km track is a vertical difference of 65 m. The maximum incline of 12 percent is a test of power for the machines, while the maximum descent of 9.3 percent propels a nerve-tingling rush to the finish line.
The recent success of Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse at Spa – a track that also included significant changes in elevation – may bode well for the team, as well as the fact that in 2021 their same Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 racecar swept both wins of the DTM weekend at Spielberg.
The overall DTM driver’s podium – including the championship itself – is still too close to call, and the racing in Austria will be intense as it provides all contenders a last opportunity to leap up the leaderboard before October’s season finale. In the team standings, a hungry Red Bull AlphaTauri AF Corse is currently in fourth place, just 16 points away from a spot in the top three.
The DTM weekend at the Red Bull Ring features two sprint races of 55 minutes plus one lap, starting at 1:30pm local time on Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25, 2022.
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