• Double victory and two podiums for MRS in Gentlemen-Class• Jöst/Scholze are now leading the B-Category by 63 points

Molitor Racing Systems had high hopes for the 11th and 12th race for the ADAC GT Masters, which took place at the Sachsenring this weekend. A double victory and a two-three were the results in Gentlemen-Class, but despite the success in the B-Category, both Nissan could not satisfy with the overall performance.

Race 1, Saturday, 29th August 2015:With the newly introduced time schedule for the races at the Sachsenring, qualifying for Race 1 went underway at 08:00am on Saturday morning. Following rain on Friday, the timed session was the first chance to get a run on dry track with the Nissan. With P12 and P16 and the first row in Gentlemen-Class, Marc Gassner started the #23 Nissan and Florian Scholze in the #22 Nissan into the one-hour race.

All 19 competitors had a clean start, but in the fight for positions, both Nissan lost two positions. Scholze handed the car over to Dominic Jöst from P11. Gassner pitted three laps later and passed the Nissan onto Florian Strauss (in P10) and had an equally good pitstop as the sister car previously. Following the driver changes, the Safety Car was deployed due to both the #2 Audi and the #7 Bentley being stranded in the gravel.

Green flag and Jöst soon after had a good run into the last corner before start/finish to overtake his team-mate on the inside. MRS GT-Racing crossed the finishing line to take two and three in Gentlemen Class with Jöst/Scholze coming home in P10 overall and Strauss/Gassner in P11.

"The reason for our surprising unsatisfying pace lies within the first sector of the track, which obviously does not suit the Nissan", said Scholze after the race. “We tried a few different things on the Set-Up, but in this sector we were simply too slow.”

Race 2, Sunday, 30th August 2015:Both Nissan drivers had to fight with understeering during qualifying for the second race on Sunday. Florian Strauß started the #23 Nissan from position 16, with Dominic Jöst following in the sister car #22 from P19.Despite changes to the Set-Up, the Nissan could not compete with the front-runners. Coming home one by one, the MRS-Nissan took double victory in Gentlemen-Class.

“We cannot be happy with P13 and 14 in the overall classification, since we arrived here with very different hopes for the weekend”, said Florian Strauss. “Our hope was, to continue from the good performance we showed at Nürburgring, but we had a lot of understeering during the second race and were unable to attack. We now hope, to change our bad luck for the last two race meetings in Zandvoort and Hockenheim.”

Dominic Jöst and Florian Scholze are now way ahead in the lead with 63 points clear to the second-placed driver in the Gentlemen-Class. The next race will take place in Zandvoort from 18th – 20th September.

"We arrived at Sachsenring with quite a good feeling and had hoped to be much quicker", said Karsten Molitor, Team Principal Molitor Racing Systems.“We lost a lot of time in the first sector, which we could not make up for in the other two sectors. We have to analyse thoroughly now if the BoP might be the reason behind this.”