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Old 28 Apr 2012, 06:14 (Ref:3066414)   #1
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[2012], round 1, Hockenheim

Well, I thought it would be interesting. "New era" - new site - www.dtm.com (more direct links between news/drivers/teams which is rather convenient)

New tyres and refueling ban are going to bring some new strategies, as LMP2-like Hankooks are very stiff and the whole stint time drop is about 0,5 sec (comparing first and last lap). Besides, those wide tyres should lead to more overtaking in corners as I suppose because drivers are able to use different trajectories.

First training session was held yesterday, and Audi got top 6. But results were rather dense and usually leaders are not going to show their 100% so early.

And Andy Priaulx's car has lost its bonnet - the most notable incident.

A set of digits and letters if there's any sense in them:

Pos.Nr.FahrerAutoZeitauf F.auf V.Rdn.
122F. AlbuquerqueAudi A5 DTM1:34.508  33
29M. RockenfellerAudi A5 DTM1:34.5240.016 27
321E. MortaraAudi A5 DTM1:34.5740.0660.05028
44T. ScheiderAudi A5 DTM1:34.6690.1610.09530
510M. MolinaAudi A5 DTM1:34.8130.3050.14425
63M. EkströmAudi A5 DTM1:34.8250.3170.01232
711G. PaffettAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:34.8390.3310.01431
820R. WickensAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:34.8530.3450.01424
918A. TambayAudi A5 DTM1:34.9100.4020.05731
1019D. CoulthardAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.1340.6260.22424
1112C. VietorisAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.1800.6720.04631
1215A. PriaulxBMW M3 DTM1:35.3890.8810.20930
137B. SpenglerBMW M3 DTM1:35.4040.8960.01528
141M. TomczykBMW M3 DTM1:35.5461.0380.14222
152J. HandBMW M3 DTM1:35.5771.0690.03121
1623R. MerhiAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.5811.0730.00421
175J. GreenAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.5851.0770.00433
188D. WernerBMW M3 DTM1:35.7231.2150.13827
1924S. WolffAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.7321.2240.00927
206R. SchumacherAMG Mercedes C-Klasse1:35.8221.3140.09029
2116A. FarfusBMW M3 DTM1:35.9541.4460.13218
2217R. FreyAudi A5 DTM1:36.5752.0670.62129
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 08:03 (Ref:3066428)   #2
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 08:09 (Ref:3066432)   #3
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Yes. First time since 2000 all the drivers use the same year cars. And if I remember correct, the first year with 22 cars entered.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 09:03 (Ref:3066445)   #4
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I saw that the lap record for DTM at Hockenheim is a 1:33 something by Di Resta. It seems then, that that time might be broken seeing this is only FP times. BMWs don't look too healthy, but it is only practice times as they all say...
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 09:16 (Ref:3066446)   #5
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And BMW strikes back in FP2. Spengler sets the best time 1.33,512 - faster than lap record. 18 cars in 1 second - it's a promising result.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 12:21 (Ref:3066506)   #6
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The BMW have delivered respectable results so far. Sadly, Farfus still seems to have problems with his car, but he's at least in front of Susie Wolff and Rahel Frey.

But I'm impressed with Priaulx so far. Considering that he's a rookie, he gets along nicely with the field. So far, he's in the top 10.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 12:25 (Ref:3066507)   #7
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And only Paffett and Green are in top-10 for Mercedes. And 4 BMWs there. Only 0,4 sec between 1 and 11. Impressing.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 12:35 (Ref:3066510)   #8
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Dirk Werner - Best BMW in qualifying. Respect!
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 12:56 (Ref:3066521)   #9
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The race is going to be great.
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cool !!
Anyone know whats going on with Spengler? He looks strong in the first 2 session. I was wondering if he could claim the pole position for BMW.

Anyway feel pretty good for BMW
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 17:22 (Ref:3066623)   #11
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Spengler appareantly made a major error in the first sector during his final run.

The Qualifying definitely was awesome but I'm a bit worried about the race. The drivers comments make it seem like it will be very difficult to them to actually pass other cars, some have already been calling for a DRS-like solution to improve that.

Of course, all these impressions are from testing so lets hope it works out in the actual race. I wouldn't be completely surprised to see very little passing outside the pit stops though.
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 19:25 (Ref:3066662)   #12
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I hope the very first lap is going to be clean, without any crashes. And then we'll see. Maybe some door-to-door action if cars are not too wide for the track. At least there's Spitzkehre.
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Does anyone know if their is any replay of qualifying up on the web? Get to watch the race live tomorrow thanks to Speed2!
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 21:21 (Ref:3066706)   #14
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And if I remember correct, the first year with 22 cars entered.
DTM had 22 cars in 2001-02
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Old 28 Apr 2012, 23:38 (Ref:3066736)   #15
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Will be choosing BTCC over DTM tomorrow, but I hope Priaulx does well.
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Old 29 Apr 2012, 08:05 (Ref:3066800)   #16
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Paffett twitted that there's a rain possibility, and weather is cooller. It could change local "BoP" as Eki mentioned he liked how tyers were sliding over the hot track and Scheider, for example, said that he felt better during training when it wasn't warm.
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Spengler was quickest in warmup again, to bad he messed up his qualifying run or he could have raced for the win today.
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From Mattzel. Just watching out of interest, not sure it will be that great.
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Old 29 Apr 2012, 12:08 (Ref:3066922)   #20
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If this was F1Rejects, Ralf Schumacher gets ROTR to so far. Ruining three (!) drivers races so far...
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And stream fails on lap 3... great.
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Old 29 Apr 2012, 12:40 (Ref:3066936)   #23
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And what is Farfus doing?

(To keep quoting F1Rejects lore).
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so much more entertaining than last years races
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so much more entertaining than last years races
Yeah. And the best is, there are actual fights between drivers in the race. Not just in the first race, but also in the later stages.

Oh, and get this: Andy Priaulx is the best BMW driver in the standings!
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