In the morning session of the second day of testing at the Hockenheimring, held in wet conditions, Mike Rockenfeller clocked the fastest lap time. While the Mercedes-Benz works drivers had been second to none in changeable conditions at Dijon-Prenois, the 25-year old Audi works driver set the pace on the wet Hockenheimring. With a best time of 1:51.039 minutes, Rocky was 0.487 seconds faster than his second-placed fellow Audi driver Martin Tomczyk. And the following positions on the time sheets also were secured by drivers representing the Audi colours: at the wheel of the Audi test car, Tom Kristensen set the third fastest time, with Alexandre Prémat and Mattias Ekström finishing fourth and fifth respectively.Behind the five Audi drivers, the group auf Mercedes-Benz aces secured the positions six to nine, with Gary Paffett being the fastest of them. At the wheel of his AMG Mercedes C-Class, the Briton was 1.347 seconds slower than Rockenfeller but less than a second faster than Susie Stoddart, Maro Engel and Ralf Schumacher. The biggest mileage of the morning session was covered by the Audi test car: Tom Kristensen completed 62 laps on the Hockenheimring’s 4.574-kilometre Grand Prix circuit, representing a total mileage of 283.588 kilometres.
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