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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
As the second test session came to an end, the DTM stalwarts restored the order, at least from their point of view. Tom Kristensen set the fastest lap time of 43.159 seconds, Bernd Schneider ranked second after 90 minutes, 0.182 seconds down. Plenty of DTM experience also in the following positions: Mattias Ekström, Mika Häkkinen, … More »
Jeroen Bleekemolen will become the new team-mate of Vanina Ickx in the Audi customer team Futurecom TME. The 24-year old Dutchman replaces Olivier Tielemans who contested the first three rounds of the season. For Bleekemolen, this move represents his DTM comeback as he contested the 2003 and 2004 DTM seasons as Opel works driver. Bleekemolen … More »
GR Asia driver Tom Coronel has built a solid lead in the Yokohama Independents’ Trophy. Since the third meeting of the season at Brands Hatch, when he switched to the new SEAT León, the Dutchman has claimed three victories out of four races. His double win in Oschersleben resulted in him stretching the leading margin … More »
Andy Priaulx took pole position today at Oschersleben, Germany. The track was quite wet and the drivers had a hard time to get clean laps. James Thompson will start second on the grid with Rickard Rydell third. Gabriele Tarquini will start fourth ahead of Augusto Farfus Jr in fifth. Farfus, and the rest of the … More »
WTCC moves on to Germany and Oschersleben. Last year Priaulx won the first with Zanardi winning the second race. BMW has dominated the races here by winning seven out of eight rounds. Rickard Rydell is the only non-BMW driver to win here in 2004. BMW is most certainly looking to continue that performance as they … More »
In bright sunshine at Brands Hatch, the impressive crowd of motor racing fans were treated to touring car racing as good as it comes in the fourth round of the DTM. After 85 laps in gruelling conditions at the 1.929 kilometres short track, Swedish Audi-driver Mattias Ekström came out on top to claim his first … More »