Three weeks following his serious accident at the 24 hours of Le Mans, Audi driver Mike Rockenfeller in the German Touring Car Masters (DTM) will return.
"He will definitely go to the norisring", Audi Motorsport spokesman Jurgen Pippig said Thursday of the dpa news agency. "He has passed all tests, the doctors have given the green light." "We are pleased all that he is again", said Pippig before the fifth round of the season in Nuremberg on Sunday.
Rockenfeller was just before midnight of the line on 11 June the classic endurance event at Le Mans lost and embarked with his Audi R18 TDI at rate 280 head-on in crash barriers on. While the carried away 27-Jahrige bruises and whiplash, heavier injuries remained but. However, Audi decided to spare Rockenfeller the fourth DTM round on the ring of Lusatia and the 24 hours Nurburgring. On the ring of Lusatia, the former represented him DTM driver and Le Mans record winner Tom Kristensen.
It was important to three weeks to give break Rockenfeller, Pippig continued. Now, the Altnauer have no pain. Rockenfeller had celebrated his first DTM victory in the second race in the Netherlands Zandvoort, Netherlands and is currently in the overall standings with 14 points to rank four. His team colleague Martin Tomczyk from Rosenheim is headed.