The German Team kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport hunts for the title with Felix Rosenqvist

There will be action again for the German team kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport from Berlin after about a month of summer break. This weekend (16th to 18th of August) the seventh season event of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship is scheduled on the Nürburgring with the races 19 to 21. The racing stable from the German capital city wants to hunt for the title with Felix Rosenqvist (second in the rankings) at the championship. The Swede is only 24.5 points behind the leader before the next 12 races left. His team colleagues Roy Nissany (Israel), Michael Lewis (USA) and Mitchell Gilbert (Australia/all Dallara Mercedes) want to develop their booming tendency on the 3.629 km long track in the Eifel. The racing stable owner and team principal Peter Mücke will inform us about the situation and the goals of kfzteile24 Mücke Motorsport in the following three questions.

Mr. Mücke, how do you rate the chances for Felix Rosenqvist to get the European Championship title?
Peter Mücke: Felix was on the podium seven times at the last seven European Championship races and scored four wins, two second positions and one third position. Besides that he won the RTL GP Masters of Formula 3 in Zandvoort in the Netherlands for the second time already. He is in excellent form at the moment and he wants to prove that in the upcoming 12 races left. Last year he finished third on the Nürburgring already. So he has good chances to get the championship title. To achieve that he has to gather as many points as possible in each race. We will see what will happen, but we are very optimistic at the moment.

How satisfied are you with your other three drivers?
Peter Mücke: All of them developed well during the season, our rookies Roy Nissany and Mitchell Gilbert gathered a lot of experience. It will be important for all of them to keep up their booming tendency and to score top ten placings, what Roy and Michael already achieved. They want to knot onto that now. I think that all of the three drivers have the potential to do so and they will prove it at the upcoming season process. And we want to start to achieve that on the Nürburgring already.

Speaking of Nürburgring. You have been there on track yourself as well for the first time in this year behind the wheel of a Ford Capri RS at the Oldtimer Grand Prix and have been successful…
Peter Mücke: That’s right. I scored the class win at the revival of the German racing sports championship 1972 to 1981. Certainly I had a capital flight off track as well at the first race with about 250 km/h on a non-marked trail of oil. Fortunately, I wasn’t injured and the car wasn’t damaged, so I was able to keep on driving after a short pit stop and finish the second race as well. Altogether, it was great fun again to be behind the wheel as it always is. But now all of my concentration is on the command post at the track again and my work as the team principal, to create ideal terms and conditions for our drivers and hopefully to celebrate successes with them.

(Attached to this mail photos of Peter Mücke and Felix Rosenqvist: © Alexander Trienitz)