Thomas Preining, who started his carreer in karting is the 2023 DTM-champion Thomas Preining, who started his carreer in karting is the 2023 DTM-champion Bas Kaligis / Monday, October 23, 2023 0 472 Article rating: No rating A performance worthy of a champion: leader Thomas Preining (A) refused to be unsettled by his rival Mirko Bortolotti’s (I) fastest times in the final qualifying of the season on Sunday morning in Hockenheim. In temperatures around eleven degrees Celsius, the Porsche works driver from the Manthey EMA team kept his cool and produced the fastest lap of the weekend so far (1:36.800 minutes) with time running out at the end of the session. Read more