Dani Juncadella still doesn’t “understand” his Saturday penalty

The second victory of the season Daniel Juncadella (Mercedes) seemed to be almost written yesterday in Austria. Author of the pole, but beaten at the start of the race by Mike Rockenfeller (Audi), the Spaniard of the brand with the star quickly regained his possession and had mastered almost the entire event contested on the Red Bull ring.

This was without taking into account the intervention of the safety car following the stop at the side of the track of Timo Glock's BMW M4 five minutes from the end. The opportunity for officials of DTM to implement the new relaunch procedure, based on the GT3 racing model or IndyCar.

A situation that Juncadella, AKKA-ASP driver in Blancpain GT Series, knows well Endurance Cup, but that will not smile on him, with a drive-through imposed for non-compliance with the procedure.

" I do not know what to say, I still don't understand the reason for which I received a penalty, Juncadella proclaimed. I wasn't driving too slowly, but I was going around 80 km/h, the speed you need to be at on a restart behind the safety car.

It's a shame to lose my second DTM victory. I especially feel sorry for the guys on the team, because they did a great job. The car was excellent and I had a very good race. »

The DTM communicated this Sunday morning on social networks, indicating that Juncadella had accelerated in the wrong zone. According to the regulations, acceleration must be done “in the section between the first white line and the finish line. »

A word on the heavily discussed @dani_juncadella incident yesterday: he was speeding up too early at the 2nd restart. He accelerated in 1st corridor on start/finish instead of 2nd one. According to the regulations this infringement was punished by the race control #DTMSpielberg pic.twitter.com/sgzloZWOtB

- DTM (@DTM) September 23, 2018