Leggate misses Knockhill
Fiona Leggate has opted to sit out Knockhill’s Dunlop MSA BTCC rounds this Sunday (3 September) to concentrate instead on the season’s final two meetings.
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Nicolas Kiesa joins Audi
The sixth round of the DTM at the Nürburgring marks the series’ debut for former F1-driver Nicolas Kiesa. The Dane is the new team-mate of Vanina Ickx in the Audi customer team Futurecom TME. The 28-year old will be driving his first touring car race at the Nürburgring. After success in Formula Ford, Formula 3 … More »
Howell ”up for it” on return
Just as in 2005, Gareth Howell has been drafted into Team Halfords’ squad to boost its title chances over the remaining rounds of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship season. Howell will contest the championship’s final 12 rounds of 2006 in a third Halfords Honda starting at Snetterton, Norfolk on 13 August alongside current … More »
Rickard rides Puebla pole
The man at the front of the grid tomorrow will be Rickard Rydell after posting the best lap (1:41.259) of the qualifying session with three minutes left on the clock. This is the second pole of the year for the Swede after that in Brands Hatch. His SEAT León will be joined on the fron … More »
First win for Spengler
In front of a record crowd of 147,0000 spectators, Franco-Canadian Bruno Spengler scored his maiden victory in the DTM. With his DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG-Mercedes C-Class, he finished ahead of championship leader Bernd Schneider, who extends his points lead at the halfway point of the season. Just before the end of the race, there was some … More »
Spengler sets first fastest time
In the first test at the Norisring, the 20 DTM drivers got a taste of what they can expect during the next two days: a hot weekend. In bright sunshine and with temperatures above 30 degrees, Bruno Spengler set the first fastest time. The Franco-Canadian lapped the 2.3 kilometres short street circuit in the city … More »
Ekström fastest in the afternoon
The sun is burning over Nuremberg and Mattias Ekström is striving towards another success. After setting the third fastest time in the first test, the Swede stayed cool on Friday afternoon with temperatures over 35 degrees and set the fastest time of 49.228 seconds with his Red Bull Audi A4 DTM. With the DaimlerChrysler Bank … More »
Bleekemolen 3rd in 1000km race
Past weekend, Jeroen Bleekemolen – back in DTM since the Brands Hatch round as driver of a team Futurecom TME entered Audi A4 DTM – contested the Nürburgring 1000km-Race. Together with his compatriot, Mike Hezemans, the Dutchman took his Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R to third place in the LMGT2 class. The 170 laps completed by … More »
Ekström returns to rallying
DTM ace Mattias Ekström again goes into his second major passion: rallying. Between the Norisring and the Nürburgring DTM rounds, the Swede again gets out of his Audi A4 DTM to race a Skoda Fabia WRC in the German round of the World Rally Championship, held from 10th to 13th August, at Trier. Following Ekström’s … More »
Kristensens 2nd pole in a row
British fans could not have hoped for a better warm-up for this afternoon’s eagerly awaited World Cup quarter final match between their home team and Portugal: qualifying for the fourth season round of the DTM at the 1.929 kilometres short Brands Hatch Indy circuit brought touring car action at its best. Eventually, the shoot-out session … More »