Rockenfeller fastest in Nurburgring DTM practice as Audi dominates
Mike Rockenfeller led another DTM practice dominated by Audi at the Nurburgring, following a brief delay after a red flag caused by Jake Dennis's R-Motorsport Aston Martin losing its door
Audi driver Loic Duval had initially set the pace after an early three-minute delay to recover Dennis's door, setting a 1m21.301s benchmark before quickly lowering it to a 1m20.742s effort.
But Rockenfeller then went top moments later with a 1m20.691s and his time was never beaten as a run of Audi drivers placed themselves out of reach of BMW.
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WRT Audi's Jonathan Aberdein demonstrated his squad's one-lap pace to go second ahead of Robin Frijns.
Title contender Nico Muller then led championship rival Rene Rast for fourth place - Rast had topped the morning's practice session - with Duval completing an all-Audi top six in the afternoon.
Outside title bet Marco Wittmann was seventh and the leading BMW, preventing Audi locking out the top eight by placing ahead of Jamie Green and WRT's Pietro Fittipaldi.
Philipp Eng rounded out the top 10 in his BMW ahead of Sheldon van der Linde.
The leading R-Motorsport Aston belonged to Paul di Resa who placed 11th, with team-mates Daniel Juncadella 15th and Ferdinand Habsburg 17th.
Dennis completed just four laps following his red-flag-causing incident and said on Instagram that he had an engine problem during the second practice session after "issues" in the morning's running.
The final three BMW's placed 13th, 14th and 16th through Joel Eriksson, Timo Glock and Bruno Spengler respectively.
Free practice two result
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rene Rast | Rosberg | Audi | 1m20.438s | 28 |
2 | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix | Audi | 0.436s | 30 |
3 | Nico Muller | Abt | Audi | 0.446s | 28 |
4 | Jonathan Aberdein | WRT | Audi | 0.450s | 29 |
5 | Jamie Green | Rosberg | Audi | 0.793s | 27 |
6 | Loic Duval | Phoenix | Audi | 0.875s | 30 |
7 | Robin Frijns | Abt | Audi | 0.921s | 23 |
8 | Marco Wittmann | RMG | BMW | 0.970s | 25 |
9 | Pietro Fittipaldi | WRT | Audi | 1.198s | 29 |
10 | Paul Di Resta | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.261s | 29 |
11 | Philipp Eng | RMR | BMW | 1.506s | 28 |
12 | Daniel Juncadella | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.592s | 29 |
13 | Bruno Spengler | RMG | BMW | 1.837s | 26 |
14 | Sheldon van der Linde | RBM | BMW | 1.974s | 29 |
15 | Joel Eriksson | RBM | BMW | 1.997s | 30 |
16 | Ferdinand Habsburg | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 2.357s | 23 |
17 | Jake Dennis | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 2.451s | 24 |
18 | Timo Glock | RMR | BMW | 2.541s | 14 |
Free practice one result
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Rene Rast | Rosberg | Audi | 1m20.438s | 28 |
2 | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix | Audi | 0.436s | 30 |
3 | Nico Muller | Abt | Audi | 0.446s | 28 |
4 | Jonathan Aberdein | WRT | Audi | 0.450s | 29 |
5 | Jamie Green | Rosberg | Audi | 0.793s | 27 |
6 | Loic Duval | Phoenix | Audi | 0.875s | 30 |
7 | Robin Frijns | Abt | Audi | 0.921s | 23 |
8 | Marco Wittmann | RMG | BMW | 0.970s | 25 |
9 | Pietro Fittipaldi | WRT | Audi | 1.198s | 29 |
10 | Paul Di Resta | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.261s | 29 |
11 | Philipp Eng | RMR | BMW | 1.506s | 28 |
12 | Daniel Juncadella | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.592s | 29 |
13 | Bruno Spengler | RMG | BMW | 1.837s | 26 |
14 | Sheldon van der Linde | RBM | BMW | 1.974s | 29 |
15 | Joel Eriksson | RBM | BMW | 1.997s | 30 |
16 | Ferdinand Habsburg | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 2.357s | 23 |
17 | Jake Dennis | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 2.451s | 24 |
18 | Timo Glock | RMR | BMW | 2.541s | 14 |
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