Mirko Bortolotti feels Sunday's DTM qualifying at the Red Bull Ring should have been cancelled after heavy rain had made it 'undriveable'. 'The conditions have to be there for us to have racing and not survival.'
Bortolotti could only set the 23rd-quickest time in his Grasser Racing Lamborghini and felt the conditions had worsened to a point that qualifying turned into a session about “survival and not racing”.
"I don't want to criticise anyone either, but I just didn't like it. The conditions have to be there for us to have racing and not survival. Had the qualifying been cancelled, the starting grid would have been based on the championship order, as was the case at the Nurburgring in August when heavy fog forced DTM to abandon the session.
“But also once again if you're P25 in the championship obviously you want to do a qualifying because if you start off the championship standings it is bad for you. So the situation depends for sure.”, on the other hand, offered a different view on the situation and felt that every driver deserved an opportunity to qualify for the race on merit.take pole by more than two tenths
“I don't think anyone wants the grid order set by championship order. I think it's only fair that every driver in the championship has a fair chance to qualify on pole position or his position. “It wasn't until the second red flag that we started considering maybe we don't continue this,” said Elkins.
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