Ring return for Conway
Conway and his teammates Stephane Sarrazin and Kamui Kobayashi, in the #6 TS050 Hybrid, finished second at Le Mans to stay in contention for the drivers’ World Championship and, like their sister car, they aim for a first win of the season at the Nurburgring.
Ahead of the weekend, Mike commented: “Nurburgring is a cool track so I’m really looking forward to the race. It will be interesting to see who will have the right package there as it is a high downforce circuit so we will come with revised aerodynamics. Hopefully we can continue our strong pace from Le Mans. With our car we are still in the fight for the championship, hopefully we can keep scoring solid points and catch up. The atmosphere last year at Nurburgring was great and I’m hoping to again see a lot of our fans and colleagues, as it is one of our home races."
Toshio Sato, Team President, added: “We want to put our Le Mans disappointment behind us, but first I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the fans, rivals and friends who sent us such touching messages of support over the last weeks. We will not forget this. As a motorsport team, we want to race again and we do so with even more motivation and team spirit; the Nurburgring race is a great opportunity for us. It is also a home race which means we will have the support of plenty of our colleagues from Cologne. Last year there was a great crowd, so I hope we will again have packed grandstands and I am sure we can fight for the win."
When practice begins on Friday 22nd July, the team’s priority will be to analyze the new package and fine-tune it for the 5.137 km Nurburgring Grand Prix track, which this year reverts to the tighter, Formula 1-specification Veedol Chicane.
Racing gets underway on Saturday 23rd July with qualifying at 14:45. The main race will be on Sunday 24th July at 13:00.