8th position after furious comeback and race one disaster

The warm and sunny Le Mans is followed by a mixed and demanding Oschersleben in terms of weather. This time the second stop of the still fresh NTC season took place as part of the International German Championship (IDM). The Motorsport Arena Oschersleben already hosted the Northern Talent Cup this year when the official test took place in April. In comparison, Luca Göttlicher could already mark a big improvement at the beginning of the weekend which was demonstrated with a strong seventh place on the starting grid. Race three of the season starts on Saturday afternoon. Originally it should go over 17 laps, but the weather gods seem to have something against it. Shortly before and again directly on the starting grid, it starts to rain. The race is now started on dry tyres, but is stopped soon afterwards due to the wet track conditions, before a restart as a 'wet race' with a shortened race distance of eleven laps. After a great first lap, the difficult circumstances also proved difficult for Luca Göttlicher. In the lead, he touches the white line in turn three and crashes. Sunday brings a friendlier picture, but today bad luck interferes. Immediately in the early stages, an incident occurs in front of the German, forcing him to slow down and finds himself at the back of the field. From 22nd place, "Lucky Luc" storms forward after laps with impressively constant low or middle 1'37 times and has already reached position five in lap six. There he fights with six others for the maximum 4th place. The places in the group are constantly changing. In the end, the young German achieves 8th place, although more would have been possible without bad luck at the beginning. Nevertheless, ignoring the misfortunes, Luca was able to show his talent again. Team Manager Alexander Josefson sums up the weekend as follows: “Mixed weekend for us at the second event of the NTC in Oschersleben. On the one hand we managed to show again how fast Luca can be and that we have a strong combination of rider, bike and team. On the other hand we leave Oschersleben with a DNF and an 8th place, although we feel we could have achieved much better results. Anyway, we now have a four-week break until the third event at the Sachsenring. We take the positive with us, learn from the negative and try to improve for the future.”