[DTM] Race 6 - Nurburgring (GER), 16th Aug 2009

[Hazard]

What happened to Tom then? I've only just gone live.

[Hazard]

Di Resta's wing just fell off!

Mercedes workmanship for you

[helgi]

Tom took a part into tough battle during 1 lap, then went to pit-lane, made some laps and that's all. Smth mechanical..

As for Paul - there's a bump in the braking area of the 1 turn where he lost his wing.

[Hazard]

Nice bit of rude language there from Martin, taking his first win since 2006.

Think this would have happened if it hadn't been for the Zandvoort ruling though?

Result

Pos	Driver	No	Team	Car	Time
1	Martin Tomczyk	6	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi A4 DTM	1:10:19.195
2	Timo Scheider	1	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi A4 DTM	1.205
3	Mattias Ekstrom	5	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi A4 DTM	2.969
4	Markus Winkelhock	12	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi A4 DTM	16.029
5	Jamie Green	7	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	23.349
6	Bruno Spengler	9	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	27.502
7	Ralf Schumacher	4	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	28.096
8	Gary Paffett	10	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	35.719
9	Mathias Lauda	17	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	42.148
10	Mike Rockenfeller	11	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi A4 DTM	1:06.232
11	Susie Stoddart	8	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	1:09.555
12	Maro Engel	16	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	1:12.325
13	Christian Bakkerud	18	Futurecom-TME	Audi A4 DTM	1 lap
14	Johannes Seidlitz	19	Futurecom-TME	Audi A4 DTM	1 lap
15	Tomas Kostka	20	Futurecom-TME	Audi A4 DTM	1 lap
16	Paul di Resta	3	HWA Mercedes	Mercedes-Benz C-Klasse	33 laps
17	Tom Kristensen	2	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi A4 DTM	35 laps
18	Alexandre Prémat	14	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM	41 laps
19	Oliver Jarvis	15	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi A4 DTM	42 laps
20	Katherine Legge	21	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi A4 DTM	48 laps

[stedevil]

Originally Posted by helgi

Shouldn't they show a black-and-orange flag for Eki? His car is heavy damaged.

Black/Orange is not for how much superficial damage you have, but for if there are eg remaining direct dangers of pieces falling off or driver losing control of the car. Eki had no such issues (in fact he even got fastest lap of the race) so a technical flag would have been wrong. Spengler even had a big part hanging off at the back, from the same incident, but DTM usually dont bother too much about those flimsy bits falling off either.

Originally Posted by Hazard

What happened to Tom then? I've only just gone live.

Tom, Jarvis and Paul where fighting for position and Tom went too far out in a corner (pushed?) and lost the back end turning him around and into the barriers at the inside of the corner backwards. Rejoined but quit later, but I guess you saw that part.

Maybe damage from this is what made Pauls wing separate out into orbit later in the race?

Originally Posted by Hazard

Think this would have happened if it hadn't been for the Zandvoort ruling though?

Probably, if nothing else because there seems to be a little bad blood between Eki & Scheider and inter team rivalry ever since the race where Eki let past Timo because the team though he passed him during yellow, and when the verification came that Eki did a legal pass Timo ignored letting Eki back ahead of him...

For the same reason I believe, if Eki had managed to get directly behind Martin, my guess is Eki would have "found a way through" but Scheider would still have been stuck behind Martin, but that situation never happened.

Zandvoort was really just too blunt and its easy enough to fake a small mistake that lets a car behind you past. Not something you can ever punish for.

[cg7aa]

Last2LiftOff, thanks for the 'Das DTM-Rennen von Oschersleben' link in the previous race thread. Finally, a way to watch the DTM! Mind you, I wish I hadn't bothered with the Nurburgring race, 75 minutes of my life I won't get back!

[Last2LiftOff]

Oh, ah, you're welcome CG, don't mention it.

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