the Final day of the four-day DTM Tests at the Nurburgring – and the defending Champions are once again neatly Gas: Rene Rast secured with a lap time of 1:19.028 after not even an hour in the Morning is the best brand. On the places two and three follow, with Timo Glock (+0,165) and Jonathan but your (+0,202) two BMW drivers.
compared to the fastest lap times of the entire week Rasts Thursday-best time behind record-holder and WRT-Audi-newbie Ferdinand of Habsburg (1:18.911) and Audi rival Nico Müller (1:18.944) for third place. While Audi broke the 1:19-sound barrier, remained BMW just above: Sheldon van der Linde drove on Wednesday in 1:19.070, the best round of the Munich.
a stir of another caused, but Adrian Neweys son Harrison sat on Thursday, the place in spite of a light rain shower just after 15:30 in dry conditions, in the Morning, to the Surprise of all, suddenly, in the Habsburg WRT cars, while the Austrians and Scherer shared because of the technology problem in the other WRT Audi, the yellow-blue decaled car.
talent sample of Harrison Newey in the WRT Audi
And the 21-Year-old, who had controlled before, never seen a DTM car, pulled quite respectable from the affair, even if a comparison of the times to enjoy because of the unknown programs with caution: in The Morning, Newey was missing his personal best time of 1:19.761 0,733 seconds on a grid, which was enough for ninth place ahead of WRT-Pilot Scherer.
in the afternoon, the Ex-Super-Formula-Pilot was just 53 thousandths of a slower, which brought him 0,496 seconds behind the grid even on place five. As he occurs his Surprise, when he practiced with the other pilot also the Indy Restart, self-experienced? “I was contacted at the last Minute, and then on a long trip to the Nürburgring,” he says. “And that was more than worth it.”
The RS 5 had been a “Pleaser to pedal”, he did so in the 140 rounds, just that Newey could rise with joy on the accelerator. Despite the enthusiasm it might have been during the Test, but for the time being, a unique opportunity, as the Dubai-fixed stem pilot Ed Jones had to cancel and WRT, therefore, had a seat. For the season, the Team plane does not Change, it is said of Vincent Vosses force.
68 rounds of: Duval the great “unlucky”
another Pilot today caused a Surprise when he showed up in the Cockpit of the Audi RS 5: Loic Duval. The French Phoenix Audi driver had broken two weeks ago at the mountain, the collarbone Biking and had to give up on Tuesday morning after 29 laps because of the pain.
in The afternoon bite the Frenchman, who was yet only Shortruns hazards, the teeth together in order to come before the season-opener on a couple of Long runs. In the end, he rewound after 39 laps, but remained with a total of 68 laps, even behind Newey, the man with the least amount of kilometers.
Audi vs. BMW: So a lot of the manufacturers
drove in His team-mate Mike Rockenfeller was the busiest man of the week While the factory riders were sitting in as a rule, two full days in the car, replaced the Ex-Champion of the injured Duval, and came on a three and a half days of testing and a total of 569 laps. For comparison, No other driver managed more than 400 rounds.
In total, around comparison shows that BMW has caught up in terms of reliability applied. The Munich-based come – without the twelve Shakedown laps of Marco Wittmann and Philipp Eng, with three factory cars to 1,734 rounds, while Audi abspulte a total of 1.964 rounds.
Kubica in the mileage balance to place two
Also DTM-beginners Robert Kubica collected during the test, the final, neat kilometres and came to a total of 146 laps and a personal best time of 1:19.493. So fast was the Pole that made a Qualifying Simulation, was that the days had never gone. On Rasts best time 0,465 seconds behind the BMW driver, the lap record only 0,504 seconds. In total, Kubica came in four days of testing at 541 round so he is behind Rockenfeller, the man with the second most miles.
Now, manufacturers, Teams and drivers have 50 days time, in order not to miss your packages on the finishing touches before the 1. August starts in Spa-Francorchamps with the DTM-season. In little more than three months, 18 races and nine race weekends are on the program.
result:in the morning: 1. Rene Rast (GER/Audi RS 5) 1:19.028 (63 Rd.)2. Timo Glock (GER/BMW-M4) 1:19.293 (62 Rd.)3. Jonathan but your (RSA/BMW-M4) 1:19.230 (72 Rd.)4. Mike Rockenfeller (D/Audi RS 5) 1:19.286 (82 Rd.)5. Robin Frijns (NED/Audi RS 5) 1:19.375 (80 Rd.)6. Robert Kubica (POL/BMW-M4) 1:19.493 (58 Rd.)7. Lucas Auer (AUT/BMW-M4) 1:19.622 (56 Rd.)8. Harrison Newey (GBR/Audi RS 5) 1:19.761 (45 Rd.)9. Fabio Scherer (SUI/Audi RS 5) 1:20.401 (66 Rd.)
the result of the afternoon:1. Rene Rast (GER/Audi RS 5) 1:21.498 (102 Rd.)2. Nico Müller (SUI/Audi RS 5) 1:19.428 (94 Rd.)3. Lucas Auer (AUT/BMW-M4) 1:19.476 (98 Rd.)4. Jonathan but your (RSA/BMW-M4) 1:19.701 (94 Rd.)5. Harrison Newey (GBR/Audi RS 5) 1:19.786 (95 Rd.)6. Loic Duval (FRA/Audi RS 5) 1:20.045 (39 Rd.)7. Robert Kubica (POL/Audi RS 5) 1:20.503 (88 Rd.)8. Timo Glock (GER/BMW-M4) 1:20.993 (99 Rd.)9. Ferdinand Habsburg (AUT/Audi RS 5) (84 Rd.)10. Philipp Eng (AUT/BMW-M4) no time (6 Rd.)
This article was written by Sven Haidinger
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