DTM - Spa

j_t_8_8_8 · 13 May 2005, 12:24 (Ref:1299853)

In the first practice Opel's Manuel Reuter set the fastest time, followed in 2nd place by Aiello

1st Test
Pos. Driver/team Laps Time Gap
1. Manuel Reuter Team OPC Opel Vectra GTS V8 21 2:13.658
2. Laurent Aiello Team OPC Opel Vectra GTS V8 18 2:14.269 00.611
3. Tom Kristensen Audi Sport Team Abt Audi A4 DTM 16 2:14.343 00.685
4. Mattias Ekström Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM 16 2:14.360 00.702
5. Martin Tomczyk Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi A4 DTM 20 2:14.438 00.780
6. Heinz-Harald Frentzen Stern Team OPC Opel Vectra GTS V8 14 2:14.451 00.793
7. Jean Alesi AMG-Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 21 2:14.928 01.270
8. Bernd Schneider Vodafone AMG-Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 18 2:15.214 01.556
9. Mika Häkkinen Sport Edition AMG-Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 17 2:15.292 01.634
10. Marcel Fässler GMAC Team OPC Opel Vectra GTS V8 17 2:15.325 01.667
11. Alexandros Margaritis Mücke Motorsport AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 21 2:15.368 01.710
12. Jamie Green Salzgitter AMG-Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 19 2:15.445 01.787
13. Stefan Mücke Mücke Motorsport AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 12 2:15.582 01.924
14. Gary Paffett DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG-Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 23 2:15.817 02.159
15. Pierre Kaffer Audi Sport Team Joest Racin Audi A4 DTM 21 2:15.865 02.207
16. Allan McNish Audi Sport Team Abt Audi A4 DTM 12 2:16.036 02.378
17. Christian Abt Audi Sport Team Joest Racing Audi A4 DTM 6 2:16.307 02.649
18. Bruno Spengler Junge Gebrauchte von Mercedes AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 20 2:16.505 02.847
19. Frank Stippler Audi Sport Team Joest Audi A4 DTM 23 2:16.656 02.998
20. Rinaldo Capello Audi Sport Team Joest Audi A4 DTM 16 2:16.882 03.224

toot toot · 13 May 2005, 14:48 (Ref:1299969)

2nd Test
Pos. Driver/team Laps Time Gap
1. Jamie Green
Salzgitter AMG-Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 19 2:13.525
2. Gary Paffett
DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG-Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 20 2:13.788 00.263
3. Marcel Fässler
GMAC Team OPC
Opel Vectra GTS V8 20 2:13.879 00.354
4. Mika Häkkinen
Sport Edition AMG-Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 18 2:13.949 00.424
5. Jean Alesi
AMG-Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 19 2:14.092 00.567
6. Frank Stippler
Audi Sport Team Joest
Audi A4 DTM 9 2:14.145 00.620
7. Bernd Schneider
Vodafone AMG-Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 20 2:14.284 00.759
8. Bruno Spengler
Junge Gebrauchte von Mercedes
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 21 2:14.617 01.092
9. Mattias Ekström
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
Audi A4 DTM 12 2:14.752 01.227
10. Laurent Aiello
Team OPC
Opel Vectra GTS V8 13 2:14.885 01.360
11. Tom Kristensen
Audi Sport Team Abt
Audi A4 DTM 23 2:15.255 01.730
12. Manuel Reuter
Team OPC
Opel Vectra GTS V8 21 2:15.412 01.887
13. Pierre Kaffer
Audi Sport Team Joest Racing
Audi A4 DTM 10 2:15.844 02.319
14. Alexandros Margaritis
Mücke Motorsport
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 14 2:15.962 02.437
15. Heinz-Harald Frentzen
Stern Team OPC
Opel Vectra GTS V8 21 2:16.251 02.726
16. Martin Tomczyk
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
Audi A4 DTM 13 2:16.393 02.868
17. Allan McNish
Audi Sport Team Abt
Audi A4 DTM 12 2:16.580 03.055
18. Stefan Mücke
Mücke Motorsport
AMG-Mercedes C-Klasse 19 2:16.581 03.056
19. Rinaldo Capello
Audi Sport Team Joest
Audi A4 DTM 17 2:16.878 03.353

Mercedes still setting the pace despite there weight disadvantage. Green looking good, heres hoping he can have an eventless race so we can see what his race pace is like. Paffet and Hakkinen have got to be the fancied ones though.

roger dee · 14 May 2005, 09:35 (Ref:1300592)

Green to win.

Kicking-back · 14 May 2005, 11:31 (Ref:1300639)

It's very very wet for qualifying

luke · 14 May 2005, 12:49 (Ref:1300678)

A great shame Gary crashed his car nearly at the end of qualifying, so he couldn't do his super pole lap.
Also a shame Jamie ran wide on his super pole lap.

Kicking-back · 14 May 2005, 12:53 (Ref:1300680)

Looks like pole for Mika then!

YES!

Silk Cut Jaguar · 14 May 2005, 13:28 (Ref:1300707)

I can't believe Mika got pole. I know he's got the talent and it was only a matter of time, but to bag it in only his third race in a new car? That's pretty special if you ask me.

Real shame about Paffett binning it during regular quali, I can't help but think he might have robbed Mika of the moment.

SALEEN S7R · 14 May 2005, 13:35 (Ref:1300715)

Great to see Mika back on top of his game and doing well, that said when it comes to the race ill be cheering on Jamie and Gary all the same.

**FIRE** · 14 May 2005, 13:37 (Ref:1300716)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silk Cut Jaguar

I can't believe Mika got pole. I know he's got the talent and it was only a matter of time, but to bag it in only his third race in a new car? That's pretty special if you ask me.

He's indeed doing very well.
BTW Alesi took victory in his 3rd race.

**touringlegend** · 14 May 2005, 15:09 (Ref:1300791)

I have to admit I wasn't expecting much of Mika Hakkinen this year..

He's proved me wrong so far, now let's see how tomorrows race gets on.

Hazard · 14 May 2005, 15:24 (Ref:1300806)

Quote:

Originally Posted by touringlegend

I have to admit I wasn't expecting much of Mika Hakkinen this year..

He's proved me wrong so far, now let's see how tomorrows race gets on.

Yep, nice work from the daddy.

Damn, I wanted my Opel 1-2!

Russ-Turner · 14 May 2005, 16:46 (Ref:1300836)

Pro job

Knowlesy · 14 May 2005, 17:24 (Ref:1300861)

Go Mika!

Kicking-back · 14 May 2005, 18:14 (Ref:1300906)

An excellent job from Mika - I always expected him to do well - you don't lose class!

**Adam43** · 14 May 2005, 20:07 (Ref:1300953)

A fantastic result.

Apart from Mika the Mercs aren't up there so it should be a good race as it unfolds.

luke · 14 May 2005, 22:10 (Ref:1300985)

Nice to see Mika doing fastest in a Merc again, haven't seen that for a few years.
I really hope Green and Paffett get on the podium and if it's a wet race then it's certainly possible.

Knowlesy · 15 May 2005, 10:52 (Ref:1301271)

I too expected Mika to do well KB, but I expected him to start at Spa really. As it is, he has done well from the very beginning. Great to see!

**Adam43** · 15 May 2005, 12:36 (Ref:1301407)

It is great to see these cars at Spa.

Ekstrom got a great start and pulled out a little on the first lap or so. Howere Mika had a great stop and came out just ahead after the first stops. Defense into Eau Rouge kept him ahead.

Paffet had a drive through after a dodgy move into th Bus Stop.

Kicking-back · 15 May 2005, 12:58 (Ref:1301416)

Thank god for the tarmac run off and tyre walls at Eau Rouge - that accident for Bernd Schneider was in so many ways a repeat of the one that cost Stefan Bellof his life twenty years ago.

mike_slh · 15 May 2005, 12:58 (Ref:1301417)

Green slows and retires in Les Combe,he really is having some terrible luck this season

Kicking-back · 15 May 2005, 12:59 (Ref:1301418)

MIKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Supreme performance.

I said a couple of weeks ago Hakkinen+Spa = immense.

It was an more.

Excellent win, excellent race, excellent entertainment.

luke · 15 May 2005, 13:41 (Ref:1301439)

Now a Mika fan! Nothing personal just wan't his number 1 fan back in F1. At first I thought he'd lost it, but after he got into a rythm he was back to his old days in F1, when he set blistering laps, obviously the driver of the day without a doubt.
The DTM the real Grand Prix racing, well what it used to be.

Silk Cut Jaguar · 15 May 2005, 16:59 (Ref:1301577)

Mika was supreme on the out laps today, really had the measure of everybody who dared to show up.

What a great 2 hours worth of racing, some guys really showing some brass going side by side into eau rouge. Fantastic.

**FIRE** · 15 May 2005, 17:04 (Ref:1301580)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Silk Cut Jaguar

Mika was supreme on the out laps today, really had the measure of everybody who dared to show up.

What a great 2 hours worth of racing, some guys really showing some brass going side by side into eau rouge. Fantastic.

2 hours?

Silk Cut Jaguar · 15 May 2005, 17:13 (Ref:1301584)

Ignore me, I was thinking of when I saw the lap times at the end... you know, 2:13. My bad.