Omani drivers Alfaisal Al Zubair and Khalid Al Wahaibi raced round two of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany at Austria’s Red Bull Ring from 8 to 10 June 2018, using the month-long Porsche Supercup break to gain experience on the circuit that hosts the next Supercup round.
Al Zubair, who scored points in the first two Supercup rounds in Spain and Monaco, set the tenth-fastest time in free practice. Traffic in qualifying left him 16th on the grid.
It is not a good result really. I qualified 16th because it was very hard to get a clean lap with the traffic in front of me. But I have the pace to make up for it in the race.
Alfaisal Al Zubair
In the 17-lap race one, he was hit on the first lap, which unsettled the car under braking. He still reached 14th by lap ten, but on lap 11 he tried to pass Henrik Skoog and Marius Nakken around the outside of turn one, touched Nakken and dropped to 23rd. He recovered a few places, including after a safety car on lap 15, but missed the points.
Race two went better. Starting 16th again, he finished 11th.
Points on European debut for Al Wahaibi
It was Al Wahaibi’s first race in Europe. He started race one 19th and climbed to 12th before losing two places after the safety car to finish 14th. Post-race penalties for other drivers moved him up to tenth, giving him points on his European debut.
Race one was won by Thomas Preining ahead of veteran German Michael Ammermuller, with Dutch driver Larry ten Voorde third.