{"id":1181,"date":"2014-06-01T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-06-01T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:16:14","slug":"zele-racings-von-gruenigen-shows-great-talent-at-monza-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Zele Racing\u2019s Von Gr\u00fcnigen shows great talent at Monza weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grunigen34.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1175 alignleft\" alt=\"Grunigen34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grunigen34-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grunigen34-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grunigen34-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Grunigen34.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Swiss Christof von Gr\u00fcnigen proved his great talent at his AutoGP World Series debut with Zele Racing<!--more--><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Christof von Gr\u00fcnigen competed in his first-ever AutoGP event and made a very good job. Despite being unlucky in both races, he scored his maiden championship points in Sunday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>Following a promising display in the free practice sessions on Friday, the 22-year-old sensationally placed his Zele racer in the front row in qualifying. In Saturday\u2019s first event, the rookie was unlucky, as he had a lot of wheel spin at the start dropping far back. His catching up with top lap times came to an abrupt halt, when Loris Spinelli crashed into his left rear wheel pushing him into the gravel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy quali was perfect. Everything went really well, but it seems I have used up all my luck then. My start on Saturday was crap and then I was taken out by a crash\u201c, von Gr\u00fcnigen analysed critically.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Swiss had to start from the bottom of the grid. However, this time, he start was good and he overtook a couple of rivals before it was again Spinelli who hit him in the first chicane. Von Gr\u00fcnigen spun and lost a lot of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Spinelli crash into me again, I couldn\u2019t believe it. But at least I could continue this time and get some points.\u201d Dead last, the youngster was all out on attack and closed the gap with several fast laps. He finished ninth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristof has proven his kill this weekend. He showed some lightning quick lap times. With a little more composure, which will come with more experience, and far less misfortune, he could have achieved much more. Thus, we are looking forward to his next starts with us\u201c, team boss Michael Zele said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gomez1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1183 alignleft\" alt=\"Gomez1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gomez1-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gomez1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gomez1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Teamleader Tamas Pal Kiss came 2nd and 5th to further close the gap in the overall standings to absent leader Kimyia Sato to 13 points.<\/p>\n<p>Zele Racing\u2019s second rookie this weekend, Samin Gomez, scored points in her very first AutoGP race, but was rammed into the gravel by Michele la Rosa in Sunday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Christof von Gr\u00fcnigen proved his great talent at his AutoGP World Series debut with Zele Racing<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1181\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}