Entirety 11 races took place at Schleiz with the season opener of the DRC this Sunday (29^th of April). Numerous fans found their way to the track to enjoy free entry to the track and the paddock and saw some thrilling races under a early summer sunshine at the legendary Schleizer Dreieck. International Road Racing Championship (IRRC), Thuringian Motorrad Pokal, Italo Kings and the Moto3 classes had to fight in one race each, whilst Moto1 and Moto2 only had one race on Sunday as well as the Superstock 1000.

Moto1 - Altendorfer manages the double

One day after his first win Filip Altendorfer was able to repeat the Moto1 triumph. BMW S 1000 RR rider managed to contain Schubert teammate Daniel Bergau and fellow BMW rider Jan Christiansen from Denmark.

Michael Rapp took 4^th spot on his Aprilia RSV4, Thomas Flückiger got 5^th on a Ducati Panigale.

Filip Altendorfer: "I only had a wildcard here but those things we wanted to achieve, we achieved. Two victories are good, of course, but our target was to test for the Endurance World Championship. We wanted to check some things with the bike and chassis and so on, to be ready for our next important race. I think we achieved that quite well. Let's get rolling now!"

Moto2 - Harmuth declassifies his rivals

Randy Harmuth also took victory in the second race of the Moto2 class (former Supersport open) and declassified his rivals. Almost 12 seconds where the gap to Michael Peh from Saupsdorf, who managed to pull a better start than the day before.

Swiss rider Pascal Nadalet had to fight hard with Peh for the second spot, but had to settle for third with just half of a second.

Stock 1000 - Saiger wins in front of Wildisen

After their starting misery the day before, Horst Saiger and Marc Wildisen where able to set the balance of power in the Superstock 1000 class in the right light again. Austrian rider beat his Swiss rival by 0.219 seconds.

Race itself unfolded like on Saturday, with the duo leading the way. Lorenz Sennhauser again took third - still fighting hard with injuries from a ski accident in March. He lost seven seconds on the leading group.

IRRC - Saiger and Grams take glory

First race saw Steven Michels powering his Suzuki as first through the bends up to the Buchhübel. He stayed in front for a while until Kawasaki-rider Horst Saiger took advantage from his experience. He went past and pulled a gap of 11 seconds. Michels got second.

Podium was completed by Didier Grams. "I recognized during warm up lap that ma clutch lever was loose. I decided to head back to the pits once more", he said. Grams started behind the field and was able to gain third place. Branko Srdanov from the Netherlands and Herve Gantner from Switzerland made up the top five.

Second race saw a clear victory for Grams. With more than 15 seconds in the lead he indicated Branko Srdanov and Udo Reichman on the places two and three. Thomas Kreutz, Thilo Häfele and Herve Gantner made up the Top 6 - all on BMW S 1000 RR bikes.

Italo Kings - Andenmatten wins first, Peh wins second race

Swiss rider Alain Andenmatten took victory in the first moto of the Italo Kings. After a crash of Thomas Staub and Sascha Wößner race had to be red flagged, but Andenmatten had managed to pull a lead of 3.6 seconds of Peh on his Ducati 1198S. Peh saw the checkered flag on his Panigale in front of Christian Monsch on a MV Agusta F4.

For the second race Peh decided to change setup a bit and now he was able to fight a exciting race with Andenmatten for the victory. At the end Peh took victory with just 0.7 seconds in front. Christian Monsch again took thid overall but lost out 46.1 seconds on the leading duo. He won the class of the best MV Agusta rider.

Thuringian Motorrad Pokal - Randy Harmuth thirdly

Besides his two Moto2-victories Randy Harmuth also took glory in the first race of the Thuringian Motorrad Pokal. On his Honda he saw the checkered flag before Manou Antweiler on Yamaha R6 and Heinz Reiner Düssel on BMW S 1000 RR.

Düssel took the victory in the Superbike class in front of Klaus Lederer and Rober Günnel - both riding a Kawasaki. Supersport-category of course saw Harmuth winning in front of Antweiler and Ralf Nosofsky. Superbike 750 / V2 1000 win went to Michael Mühlmann on a BMW HP2 Sport in front of Ronny Gerbeth and Jan Rückl.

Harmut didn't participated in the second race so Düssel took victory with ten seconds clear on Ralf Nosofsky. Klaus Lederer got third, Robert Günnel and Thomas Gottschalk made up the Top five.

Moto3 - Zweitaktpokal & IG Königsklasse

The 125cc saw Marucie Ullrich riding his rivals in lock, stock and barrel on his Aprilia RS 125. He won ten seconds in front of Marcel Alves Rodrigues who had to defend his position against Klaus Heidel to the line. Heidel and Rodrigues where riding 250cc four stroke Honda bikes.

First race saw Henrik Voit on Aprilia winning the two stroke 250cc class with 2.5 seconds in front of Axel Friedrichs and Andreas Götti.

During the second moto Rodrigues opted for flight and was able to pull a good advantage at the front. Ullrich had some problems in the beginning of the race but was able to get back in touch with the group fighting for P2.

Last minutes of the race saw a grasping threesome fight for second spot. Heidel, Max Enderlein and Ullrich where fighting hard - helping also Rodriguez to pull away mote. Ullrich than suffered a crash and the race had to be red flagged. He still was able to take third spot in 125cc class - behind Rodrigues and Heidel, who rode four stroke 250s. Two stroke assessment went to Ullrich.