2012 DTM Season

[Hampus Andersson]

Standings before Nurburgring,

1. 95p - Paffett
2. 69p - Green
3. 58p - Spengler
4. 54p - Tomczyk
5. 47p - Ekström

 

[Dino Paolini]

A very scientific race today with very few overtakes. The only major overtake was Tomczyk getting past Rockenfeller for p3.

1) Spengler (BMW)
2) Mortara (Audi)
3) Tomczyk (BMW)
4) Green (Mercedes)
5) Rockenfeller (Audi)
6) Paffett (Mercedes)
7) Wickens (Mercedes)
8) Albuquerque (Audi)
9) Scheider (Audi)
10) Farfus (BMW)

But my personal highlight was this vid^^
Coulthard scares the s*** out of Manuel Reuter

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Yea not the most exciting one but GO BMW

20 point away now for Spengler. Tomczyk, always nice to watch him, a true fighter.
Green and Paffett did some good damage control there as well.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

1. 103p - Paffett
2. _83p - Spengler
3. _81p - Green
4. _69p - Tomczyk
5. _49p - Mortara

Gained 17 points to Paffett in this race. Zandvoort is an awesome track, will be fun to watch that one.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Crazy Qualifying hahaha Top 5 lockout for Audi.
You could see the Audi boss yumyumyum as it did not matter who was fastest

BMW and Mercedes were nowhere.

 

[Dino Paolini]

Crazy epic awesome race today !

Even more action then on Salzburgring this year and a new high on team-radio yelling and throwing insults at other drivers
I've never seen so many overtakes and contact between teammates
And in my opinion Rockenfeller should have been concentrating more on driving than on complaining, maybe he could have won the race that way. Also we all know now that Farfus is a bit chloreic at times

1) Mortara (Audi)
2) Rockenfeller (Audi)
3) Ekström (Audi)
4) Green (Mercedes)
5) Tambay (Audi)
6) Spengler (BMW)
7) Paffett (Mercedes)
8) Werner (BMW)
9) Farfus (BMW)
10) Schumacher (Mercedes)

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Ridiculous driving today from many guys.

RSC should never be allowed to race, he´s a moron.
bumping and other stuff is ok, that´s part of the game, but to drive someone clean of the racetrack is dumb.

He must have some record now in being the dumbest person on track.

Massive respect to Haug, he was devastated and just said it´s ok and gave him a hug.
It takes some cojones to just brush that incident off.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

And on a more positive note, race was fantastic!

Tomczyk´s pit entrance with Tambay was insane

 

[Hampus Andersson]

1. 109p - Paffett
2. _93p - Green
3. _91p - Spengler
4. _74p - Mortara
5. _69p - Tomczyk

Gap from Spengler to Paffett closed by 2 points but at the same time got jumped by Green.

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Wow Schumacher is useless. Wiping out 4 engineers in the pit lane!

 

[Dino Paolini]

Wow Schumacher is useless. Wiping out 4 engineers in the pit lane!

I think that one was actually not his fault this time. But I agree with him beein a bad racer in general and causing a ton of incidents.

It would have been interesting what he would have done, had Rahel Frey passed him at Nürburgring, when she followed him throughout the entire race whilst beeing faster.
Some nice retaliation move I would guess

 

[Thilo Falkenberg]

It would have been interesting what he would have done, had Rahel Frey passed him at Nürburgring, when she followed him throughout the entire race whilst beeing faster.
Some nice retaliation move I would guess

Maybe he would have done a (Keke) Rosberg on her

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Werner quickest in P1, tag along for a lap of this amazing flowing circuit.

http://www.dtm.tv/Index/Start/EN/1629

Pretty interesting news,

BMW set the first fastest time during the DTM weekend at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. In bright sunshine, Dirk Werner set the fastest lap time of 1:22.132 minutes with his BMW M3 DTM. He was 0.265 seconds faster than points’ leader Gary Paffett (Mercedes-Benz). Werner’s fellow BMW drivers Augusto Farfus and Andy Priaulx ended up third and fourth. Timo Scheider (Audi) drove the fastest Audi A5 DTM in fifth place.
The DTM fans can look forward to a hot racing weekend: in first free practice already, the first eleven drivers were faster than Timo Scheider’s official lap record, set in 2010. Accordingly, it seems quite certain that the record will be beaten in this year’s race. With 43 laps, Priaulx completed the highest number of laps in free practice. For the Brit, this equalled a distance of 158.928 kilometres. Sunday’s eighth DTM season round will cover 51 laps.

Hoping to see Tomczyk and Spengler keep Paffett and Green behind them.
They got so strong race pace the Mercs so it will be hard.

 

[iZ GunDaM]

Ralf Schumacher reminds me of these things you find on Sniff Petrol (fantastic website, I thoroughly reccomend it!):

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Spengler on pole!

 

[Hampus Andersson]

11 points now only

 

[Hampus Andersson]

1. 127p - Paffett
2. 116p - Spengler
3. 108p - Green
4. _75p - Rockenfeller
5. _74p - Mortara
6. _69p - Tomczyk
7. _66p - Ekström
8. _29p - Farfus
9. _24p - Vietoris
10. _19p - Scheider

You should have seen the reptile-reactions from Scheider at the start.
It was insane, he missed Molina i think it was with maybe a meter or less and that was while probably doing 100-150km/h.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

BMW will run 8 cars next season.
Latest team will be called Team MTEK (interesting name..)

Team MTEK is based in Garching near the BMW Motorsport hearquarters in Munich with Dutchman Ernest Knoors as Team Principal.
"I'm really looking forward to my new task: to guide BMW Team MTEK to DTM success," said Knoors, who most recently has been working with Ferrari as Head of customer powertrain support in Formula One.

"Over the course of my career I have experienced most forms of motor racing, and I know the high level of operation in the DTM. BMW Motorsport is currently contesting a fantastic debut season. We are also set to have our share in giving the BMW fans reason to celebrate regularly in 2013. It's obvious there will be a lot for us to learn as a new team. I'm convinced we will have a steep learning curve. The current 2012 season has given impressive proof of the general competitiveness of the BMW M3 DTM."

BMW has as of yet not revealed the identity of the two drivers set for Team MTEK in the DTM next year.

Team RMG

- Tomczyk

- Hand

Team Schnitzer

- Spengler

- Werner

Team RBM

- Farfus

- Priaulx

Team MTEK
? - ?
? - ?


Interesting to note that only Spengler and Tomczyk are sponsored by BMW.
The rest run various other sponsors.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Rumors of Zanardi possibly joining BMW
Source is Auto123.com not sure how valid that source is.

Would be awesome if he came in and won a couple of races

 

[M1GHTY M4VS]

There are more sources claiming it could be the truth, he said he's up for that challenge if they let him drive. Truth is they're testing new drivers this month including him, Maxime Martin, Fabio Leimer and Marco Wittmann. Martin is probably the best out of them.

http://www.bmw-syndikat.de/bmwsyndi...Motorsport__Automobil-_und_BMW_News-Blog.html