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DTM - Brands Hatch 2012 - Analysis

am 21. From on 21 May 2012 at 17:00 │ Comments {1}

The third race of the season at only around 1.9 km-long version of the Indy Brands Hatch Circuit near London, was scheduled for 98 laps and is characterized by its curved and hilly layout of a demanding classic in this year's DTM calendar.

Leading championship Gary Paffett was the pole on Saturday in front of Christian Vietoris and Bruno Spengler safe. At launch, however Patze the English and read tire spin while Vietoris on P2 also had a bad start, Bruno Spengler was with his BMW immediately attack the Mercedes of Paffett, saw in the first einzwei rounds so as if the Canadians at Paffett push past.

Vietoris, who has secured the qualifying nor surprising was the second on the grid after his mess up quickly from the start chasing pack, led by Tomczyk cashed. It even seemed as if Vietoris been so surprised by the overtaking Tomczyk that he is moving in behind Ekström and Farfus did not notice and immediately waved through with. One lap later, Tomczyk was able to overtake again in the same place, this time Tambay was his "victims" and again, it also managed to slip through Matthias Ekstrom also included.

Further back loses Andy Priaulx in his BMW M3 and landed briefly in the gravel, but he can continue, but it is flushed to the end of the field later on lap 15 he had to leave his BMW because of stability problems at all. He has found this weekend to clear difficulties for its shape. (Managed, he was simultaneously in Q3 Vietoris, but Vietoris had driven the time more so it does not Tomczyk in Q4), a very different impression is Martin Tomczyk, despite or precisely because he was unlucky in qualifying, Tomczyk took a bit of anger in stomach and was always pressure on his front man. Also, a too slow stop messenger could hardly stop him.

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DTM - Brands Hatch 2012 - Preliminary Report

am 17. From on 17 May 2012 at 18:00 │ Comments {0}

On the third weekend of the season it goes for the DTM teams of Audi, BMW and Mercedes in the British tradition course "Brands Hatch". Which is near London, the course with only 1.929 kilometers in length, the shortest on the DTM calendar this year.

Even if the reading in the DTM Indy layout of the course, at first glance looks quite simple, the circuit is regarded as particularly challenging for the drivers as the track leaves little error and permits through its many curves for the driver enough time for breathers. Qualifying will play this weekend for all the drivers have a particularly important role, as the short track lap times will be very close to each other and be compensated for such a small slip on a fast lap, barely can. further accelerate →

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DTM - Lausitzring 2012 - Analysis

am 7. From on 7 May 2012 at 09:00 │ Comments {0}

The second race of the DTM season began on Saturday with a clear request from BMW. In qualifying, it managed the DTM returnees from Bavaria with Bruno Spengler and Augusto Farfus conquer the first row of its own. Starting in third place secured Hockenheim winner Gary Paffett.
At the very start and even before the first corner can Paffett set before Farfus behind it is Rockenfeller ausbeschleunigt Mortara who once tried to attack the now lying in third place Farfus. Bruno Spengler is easily in the lead, while Rockefeller is now also collected by Jamie Green. Andy Prixaulx loses in the battle in midfield with David Coulthard a lot of ground, falling from 13th place start in the first round up to 19 Square back.

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DTM - Lausitzring 2012 - Preliminary Report

am 5. From on 5 May 2012 at 08:15 │ Comments {0}

Just a week after the season opener at Hockenheim it's been on the Second Brandenburg Lausitzring totaling only 10 DTM championship races at the start. The Lausitzring has a much different track than Hockenheim and consists of a very fast section of the super speedway and a twisty section in the "infield" of the Super Speedway.
The Lausitzring was designed as a high-speed track for the American Indycar-/CART-Serie, which unfortunately has appeared only twice in the Lausitz. The first appearance of the CART series should have stopped many of the serious accident of the two-time CART champion Alex Zanardi in memory. The course offers the 2-mile Superspeedway and the Grand Prix circuit including a DEKRA test track, a motocross track and a 11.3-km-long route. The DTM will use a variation of the 3.4 kilometer Grand Prix circuit, without the big banked corner of Turn 1 Superspeedway since it came here in 2003 to punctures in some DTM cars.

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DTM - Hockenheim 2012 - Analysis

am 1. From on 1 May 2012 at 16:35 │ Comments {4}

The first DTM race of the "new generation" promised by a new manufacturer and new regulations, more variety and excitement as in previous years.

One can truly say that the innovations had quite a positive effect on the series. The changes to the regulations were aimed, among other things aims to bring more action into the race and, above all, that the vehicles are less sensitive to touch and thus can be real touring car racing, with push and shove. The start went off still relatively clear, but the best-placed BMW driver Dirk Werner at No. 3, did not come off very well and lost with his Schnitzer BMW a few places. Ralf Schumacher took the new regulations (remember "push and shove") was a bit too seriously and probably chosen the BMW to welcome in the DTM because he saw in the hairpin in two consecutive rounds of accidents.

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Super GT: Lexus to launch a surprise in Okayama

am 9. By on 9 April 2012 at 18:26 │ Comments {0}

300 km (82 laps) were in the season opener of the Japanese Super GT on 1 April in Okayama. For Honda, it would prefer to have 83 laps, because in the end cheered the competition from the Lexus at home, which was before the weekend so really no one on the list.

The Okayama International Circuit is considered technically challenging course. The SC430 Lexus are a bit at a disadvantage because they can exploit their power on the short straights not quite. As favorites were therefore in addition to the Honda HSV-010 (better cornering speed), the Nissan GT-R wagon, distinguished by its sleek good braking during deceleration time. The first surprise then, however, Lexus put in the qualification: Under mixed conditions (rain first, then towards the end, a slightly dry road surface) is introduced to the center Cerumo SC430 (Yuji Tachikawa / Kohei Hirate) on the pole position. Behind the Raybrig joined HSV-010 (Takuya Izawa / Naoki Yamamoto) and the Petronas Tom's SC430 (Kazuki Nakajima / Loic Duval). further accelerate →

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ADAC GT Masters season opener at Oschersleben Preview &

am 31. From 31 March 2012 at 07:08 │ Comments {0}

BMW ALPINA B6 GT3, Lamborghini Gallardo LP600 + Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3, Ferrari 458 Italia GT3, McLaren MP4-12C GT3, Porsche 911 GT3 R, Corvette Z06 GT3, BMW Z4 GT3, Audi R8 LMS Ultra, Nissan GT-R GT3 , Aston Martin Vantage GT3, GT3 and Chevrolet Camaro Ford GT GT3 so the vehicles this year in the GT Masters season are enrolled. World in almost any other series is expected to be higher than on December in the ADAC GT Masters. The start of the series will be celebrated this weekend on the winding course of Oschersleben.
The FIA ​​GT Championship enters its sixth Season and there are more nominations than ever before, so you can see in Oschersleben all 41 cars from 13 different brands, which is much longer ('s GT3 European Championship, GT1 and BES) and one in the other series of the SRO. Even TV is technically once again gained live broadcast, a cable because as even the last two years shows all the races live! But apart from these many constants, such as the TV coverage and the full starting fields, there are some innovations that could still cause a stir throughout the season.

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Formula 1: Germany Qualifyinganalyse

am 24. From on 24 July 2010 at 17:04 │ Comments {2}

(At the end of the article are links to pictures that made ​​Don Dahlmann, who is on site at Hockenheim, more pictures throughout the weekend at: http://twitter.com/Racingblog )

What had been hinted at in the three free practice sessions, was finally confirmed in qualifying. Ferrari could finally realize the upward trend in some countable and gained the best Qualifyingposition the season. At the front is, however, again a Red Bull, and free MercedesGP disappointed by supposedly good workout. Even McLaren is not as strong as in recent races.

The free practice sessions at Hockenheim gave a surprisingly accurate and true picture of the balance of power, not mentioning of MercedesGP. In the free practice sessions, it looked as if it bomb-proof in qualifying somewhere in the 5-8 places could be placed, depending on how strong the McLaren really. That as the final result at home GP then positions 11 and 9 for Michael Schumacher in it for Nico Rosberg is disastrous. Whether Schumacher is now scarce in Q3 and then 10th or is eleventh in Q2, no matter where Eleventh really is still the better position, since he started on the clean side. No, it's about the overall performance that is simply bad.

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Formula 1: Germany Friday analysis

am 23. From on 23 July 2010 at 17:15 │ Comments {4}

The rain will probably dominate the entire weekend, making an assessment difficult, but it seems to have been some shifts in power. Red Bull and Ferrari are probably suddenly at eye level and look behind McLaren, while Mercedes is just as always there: Not really up front, but far enough back to be fifth team to not suddenly.

Today I share the analysis in 1 and 2 Training because they took place under different conditions:

First free training:

The first free practice before all what one thing wet. It was only towards the end a little drier, so that one could at least go with intermediate tires. Although somewhat surprising but not totally unexpected, it Suitl the Force India Adrian managed in the first free practice session on the 1 to make and proved his class as a driver's rain, with rain Suitl and yes sometimes even more of a "hate love". In wet race, he is often quite far forward, but then throws the car off somewhere by you. His teammate Liuzzi was ninth

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Formula One: China GP / backgrounds to Ron Dennis

am 16. From on 16 April 2009 at 20:24 │ Comments {2}

The verdict is in, Formula One can (hopefully) return to what it does best: deliver exciting racing

Shanghai Because regardless of previous GPs in the ranking of Formula One is not nearly as secure as you think. Presumably BrawnGP will indicate the tone again in China, the question will be but also how closely Toyota will be tuned to the English. Ross Brawn himself has mentioned in early times, that he does not believe that his team will be on all routes forward. This may be an understatement, but can also vote. Noticed I feel that in the qualification was not the speed that you could go in the race. This was on many fuel in the tank, and I'm curious how long Brawn go with the risk of tank filling in Q2. Now of course in Shanghai is not so much different than in Malaysia. He has but two passages that will be very interesting.

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