The penultimate race of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany 2023 season ended with a triple victory for the GP Elite team and an all-Dutch podium.

22-10-2023 11:36 -

The penultimate race of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland season saw a tactical masterstroke from the GP Elite team. Larry ten Voorde, who was already established as champion, started from pole position, but let his teammates Loek Hartog and Huub van Eijndhoven, who were driving directly behind him, pass before the first corner. “The plan is to help Huub achieve his first podium in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany and to let Loek score as many points as possible in the fight for second place overall,” team boss Torsten van Haasteren said in the strategy.

With his victory in Saturday's race, Hartog improved to third place overall and gained a lot of ground on second overall Bastian Buus (Allied Racing). Before the last race of the season tomorrow, Sunday (11:35 a.m.), only eight points separate the Porsche Junior from Denmark and his Dutch pursuer. Buus finished the first race of the weekend in seventh place. The sixth-placed Briton Harry King, Buus' teammate at Allied Racing, also has a mathematical chance of taking honors behind champion Larry ten Voorde, 20 points behind. The starting grid for race number 16 of the season speaks in Hartog's favor: On Sunday, the winner from Saturday will start from third position. King and Buus, on the other hand, only qualified for starting positions seven and eight respectively. Larry ten Voorde starts the race again from the front – the 50th pole position in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany for the 26-year-old Dutchman.