After the Sachsenring race he was 14th in the championship on 46 points, 4 places and eighteen points behind Hopkins.
Helga Steudel is the only female motorcyclist to have won under her maidenname Steudel at the Sachsenring.
It took place on the weekend of 6–8 July 2012 at the Sachsenring in Chemnitz, Germany.
The team's debut at a world championship race was at Sachsenring in 2001, where the team entered Mika Kallio as a wildcard rider.
Called VEB Sachsenring until 1990, it was a producer of vehicles in the former German Democratic Republic, its most famous product being the Trabant.