Published September 21, 2008
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It was such a great race this morning from Barcelona. Pure excitement from start to finish. Bernd Scneider held pole for about a second before being past by Timo Scheider and Paul di Resta. Scheider was leading for good bit but seemed to be a bit down on speed compared to di Resta. He did pass Timo with contact but Timo was smart enough to back off.
With a cleverly clinched second place, Audi driver Timo Scheider defended his overall DTM lead at Barcelona. Before the last two rounds, the 29-year-old German has a seven-point advantage over the Scot Paul di Resta (Mercedes) and thus the chance of securing the champion’s title early at the next race at Le Mans on 5 October. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi driver Scheider defends DTM lead’
Published September 21, 2008
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With the race just about to start, we saw this news. Poor Tom!
After qualifying, Danish Audi driver Tom Kristensen was dropped back ten places on the grid and given a fin of 2,500 Euros by the stewards because of an infringement. Continue reading ‘DTM: Kristensen dropped back ten places’
Published September 20, 2008
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At the DTM’s ninth round at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona (Spain) leader of the standings Timo Scheider will again start from the first row of the grid. In the most gripping qualifying session the season has seen so far the Audi “factory” driver was merely 31 thousandths of a second short of reaching the pole position. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi driver Timo Scheider on front row again’
At the eighth DTM round at Brands Hatch, Audi celebrated their fourth win of the 2008 season. In unstable weather conditions Timo Scheider defended an extremely narrow lead against Mercedes driver Paul di Resta on the British circuit. In front of 26,800 spectators (throughout the weekend) Timo Scheider thus extended his leadership of the standings to nine points. Mattias Ekström shone with a brilliant recovery from seventh to third place. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi wins at Brands Hatch and extends DTM lead’
Published August 30, 2008
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Qualifying turned out great for Timo Scheider as he carried his times over from practice. MArtin Tomczyk also had a good result and hope fully he will have some luck during the race. . Oliver Jarvis was the surprise in 6th, toping Mattias Ekstrom, Tom Kristensen! Qualifying break down after the jump. Timo leads the points by 4 over Jamie Green then Ekstrom is 2 back with 4 races (includes tomoarrow) left.
Timo Scheider back on top at Brands HatchFor the fourth time this season and for the sixth time in his career, Timo Scheider (Audi) will be on pole position for a DTM race. In qualifying for the eighth season round of the DTM at Brands Hatch, the German secured himself the best possible grid position with the Audi A4 DTM with a lap time of 42.084 seconds. Lining up alongside Scheider will be local hero Paul di Resta (Mercedes-Benz), who qualified second. With his AMG Mercedes C-Class, di Resta only came 0.090 seconds short of Scheider’s fastest lap time. Continue reading ‘DTM: Timo Scheider on pole position at Brands Hatch’
Published August 30, 2008
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For the third time during this Brands Hatch weekend, Audi scored a fastest time: Mattias Ekström, who had topped the time sheets in the second test on Friday, was fastest in free practice, too. On his fastest lap (42.301 seconds), the Swede improved the fastest lap time from the day before by more than two tenths of a second. The Audi trio in front was completed by Timo Scheider and Tom Kristensen in second and third place. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi also on top in free practice’
Published August 29, 2008
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With temperatures rising up to 24 degrees, the 19 drivers from Audi and Mercedes-Benz failed to match the times from the morning session in the second DTM test. In the final minutes of the second test, Mattias Ekström set the fastest lap time. With his Audi A4 DTM, the Swede outpaced his team-mate Martin Tomczyk, who had been on top of the leaderboard for quite a while, by 0.244 seconds. Timo Scheider, who had set the fastest lap time of the day with 42.577 minutes in the morning session, completed the Audi trio on top after the second test. Continue reading ‘DTM: Ekström sets fastest lap time in test 2′
Published August 29, 2008
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The first of two test sessions on Friday ended with a fastest time set by Audi driver Timo Scheider. At the shortest circuit on the DTM calendar with 1.929 kilometres, Schneider drove his fastest lap in 42.577 seconds. Paul di Resta occupied second place in the first test at a considerable distance. At the end of the 90 minutes’ session, the Scot was 0.494 seconds short of Scheider’s fastest time. Continue reading ‘DTM: Scheider fastest in first test at Brands Hatch’
Published August 25, 2008
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Spanish lady racer María de Villota will be at the wheel of an Audi A4 DTM during the DTM race event at Barcelona in Spain from September 19th till 21st. In front of a crowd of Spanish race fans, the daughter of ex-Formula 1 driver Emilio de Villota will be completing a DTM test with the 470 hp strong Audi touring car. Continue reading ‘DTM: María de Villota to test Audi A4 DTM’
Published July 28, 2008
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I’m not even sure how to start this… We were streaming the race but missed the first 10 laps due to coverage of the Tour De France. We didn’t have the live ticker opened but upon catching up I thought it was a mistake. The top 8 or so were all AMG. WTF!!!! I said!
Tom Kristensen lands in the kitty litterHow could a meteorologist get it wrong but first, how could Audi! We see it time and time again in racing but tire choice is huge when it comes to weather. I won’t go into it as you can read on but highly disappointing in the end.
A few more surprises, Tom Kristensen takes poll and then DNF’s. Rockenfeller who was second on poll, dropped to 15th and 1 lap down. De Riesta had a 22sec lead over 2nd pace Bernd Scnieder who then wins. Schumacher scores a point.
With a fifth-place finish Audi driver Timo Scheider defended his overall lead in the DTM. However, a tyre choice that failed to work out deprived Audi of a possible fourth victory of the season in the Eifel. Continue reading ‘DTM: Audi driver Timo Scheider defends points lead’
