Back to former strength for home fixture

Team Neuhauser is looking to make good the false start from the first ADAC Formula 4 race weekend six weeks ago in Oschersleben with drivers Tim Zimmermann and Kim-Luis Schramm at the home fixture on the Red Bull Ring this coming weekend (5th to 7th of June). The team from Zell is hoping to deliver a traditional good performance and be up there with the very best, just as it did in 2014.

It was Pentecost Sunday 2014 when Team Director Hannes Neuhauser was beaming in the sunshine like a Cheshire cat. His driver Mikkel Jensen had just brought home a third-place podium finish in the third race. The Dane led at the front twice. In the third race, Jensen ultimately finished in second place. “That was an almost perfect weekend for us,” says Team Director Hannes Neuhauser. “You could say that those three days set the foundation for the subsequent Team Championship and also for Mikkel’s title as Drivers’ Champion 2014.”

Around a year later Team Neuhauser Racing is setting up camp in Spielberg for the home fixture; this time, however, under different portents. The 2014 champion now drives in the Formula 3 European Championship and the ADAC Formula Masters has become ADAC Formula 4. But these circumstances do not bother Neuhauser. “We know from testing that our car performs excellently here”, says the 30 year old. “Aside from this, we have two experienced drivers in Kim-Luis Schramm and Tim Zimmermann, who have proven here and on other circuits that they are challengers for the title”.

The champion team of the previous season, of which Tim Zimmermann from Langenargen was also a member, are beaming with confidence even following the rather modest start to the season in Oschersleben. “We were very unlucky and have not always been fortunate in Oschersleben,” says the leading driver of “Deutsche Post Speed Academy”. “However, we have ticked it off the list and Kim-Luis and I are raring to get stuck in at the Red Bull Ring.”

Why exactly Neuhauser always does so well on Austrian soil is a secret Team Director Hannes Neuhauser doesn’t want to or can’t explain. “Perhaps it is the mix of fuel and fresh mountain air here”, laughs Neuhauser and adds somewhat more seriously: “Let’s wait and see what the other teams bring to the table. What counts is how it goes on Sunday afternoon.” And if this result turns out the same way as Pentecost 2014, it will surely be to Neuhauser’s satisfaction.