{"id":1590,"date":"2016-09-01T13:14:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2016-09-01T13:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T13:16:29","slug":"von-gruenigen-fighting-back-in-assen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"Von Gr\u00fcnigen fighting back in Assen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13906986_1054035134650329_8563171859057312454_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1591 alignleft\" alt=\"13906986_1054035134650329_8563171859057312454_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13906986_1054035134650329_8563171859057312454_n-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13906986_1054035134650329_8563171859057312454_n-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13906986_1054035134650329_8563171859057312454_n.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Christof von Gr\u00fcnigen had a very hectic weekend in Assen, but showed great fighting spirit<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>While running on P4 in the BOSS GP Super Prix at the famous TT Circuit Assen, Christof suffered a sudden loss of drive due to an exploding clutchbasket, which ended his very strong race performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;The car was amazing in the race, we found a perfect balance and it actually felt even better than in qualifying. Unfortunately, I lost drive and had to retire the car. We will try to push hard again tomorrow. Starting from the back will be loads of fun,&#8220; the Swiss said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the 25-year-old proved to be fighter, starting from the back of the grid. He stormed through the field from P22 to P5! After the Safety Car phase, he was a bit too ambitious and received a 10 second penalty for too early overtaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13932739_1054583411262168_3493693050850878453_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1595 alignleft\" alt=\"13932739_1054583411262168_3493693050850878453_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13932739_1054583411262168_3493693050850878453_n-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13932739_1054583411262168_3493693050850878453_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/13932739_1054583411262168_3493693050850878453_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8222;Regardless, his performance was fantastic. And P6 following yesterday&#8217;s clutch basket explosion and all overnight work on the car, is excellent&#8220;, team boss Michael Zele was content.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Zele was even more delighted as two customer cars finished on the podium: Peter Milavec finished runner-up in the OPEN Class category, ahead of Hans Laub.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christof von Gr\u00fcnigen had a very hectic weekend in Assen, but showed great fighting spirit<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/?p=1590\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1592,"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\/1590"}],"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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zele-racing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}