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Rockenfeller goes fastest as Audi lock out top seven in second DTM practice at Lausitz

Mike Rockenfeller set the pace in the second free practice session for this weekend's Lausitz DTM round as Audis took the top seven positions on Saturday morning

The A5s dominated proceedings with Rosberg driver Filipe Albuquerque and then Abt's Mattias Ekstrom heading the timesheets during the closing stages of the 90-minute session.

Ekstrom's 1m18.694s lap was not good enough to keep him on top though as Rockenfeller took his Phoenix-run car to the top spot in 1m18.352s with 90 seconds remaining.

Ekstrom was then pushed further back as his team-mates Adrien Tambay and Timo Scheider nipped in front of the Swede; Scheider, who had earlier run off the track at Turn 1 and negotiated his way around the tyre barriers on the Lausitz oval, taking second place in a time just 0.117s slower than Rockenfeller.

Tambay was third with Albuquerque also getting in front of Ekstrom in the dying seconds. Edoardo Mortara (Rosberg) and Miguel Molina (Phoenix) completed the Audi rout.

Jamie Green was the best of the Mercedes drivers in eighth for HWA, while his team-mate Christian Vietoris was next up. RBM driver Augusto Farfus completed the top 10 in the best of the BMWs.

The most significant incident of the session came within the first half hour. Bruno Spengler made a practice pitstop, but left without his right-front wheel having been properly attached.

He drove around slowly for half a lap before the wheelnut came off altogether. He stopped on track - with the wheel still attached - as a safety precaution and was towed back to the pits. Later the Schnitzer driver returned to the track and went 15th quickest in a session that featured just over a second between the top 20 cars.

David Coulthard spun his Mucke Mercedes early on at Turn 1 while Ralf Schumacher took a heavy-looking bump over the exit kerbs there in his HWA machine.

Championship leader Gary Paffett ended the session 16th in his HWA Mercedes.

Pos  Driver              Team/Car          Time       Gap
 1.  Mike Rockenfeller   Phoenix Audi      1m18.352s
 2.  Timo Scheider       Abt Audi          1m18.479s  + 0.127s
 3.  Adrien Tambay       Abt Audi          1m18.672s  + 0.320s
 4.  Filipe Albuquerque  Rosberg Audi      1m18.680s  + 0.328s
 5.  Mattias Ekstrom     Abt Audi          1m18.694s  + 0.342s
 6.  Edoardo Mortara     Rosberg Audi      1m18.707s  + 0.355s
 7.  Miguel Molina       Phoenix Audi      1m18.712s  + 0.360s
 8.  Jamie Green         HWA Mercedes      1m18.719s  + 0.367s
 9.  Christian Vietoris  HWA Mercedes      1m18.847s  + 0.495s
10.  Augusto Farfus      RMG BMW           1m18.855s  + 0.503s
11.  Robert Wickens      Mucke Mercedes    1m18.864s  + 0.512s
12.  Martin Tomczyk      RMG BMW           1m18.887s  + 0.535s
13.  Andy Priaulx        RBM BMW           1m18.909s  + 0.557s
14.  Joey Hand           RMG BMW           1m18.938s  + 0.586s
15.  Bruno Spengler      Schnitzer BMW     1m18.965s  + 0.613s
16.  Gary Paffett        HWA Mercedes      1m19.084s  + 0.732s
17.  Roberto Merhi       Persson Mercedes  1m19.115s  + 0.763s
18.  Ralf Schumacher     HWA Mercedes      1m19.153s  + 0.801s
19.  Susie Wolff         Persson Mercedes  1m19.313s  + 0.961s
20.  Rahel Frey          Abt Audi          1m19.362s  + 1.010s
21.  Dirk Werner         Schnitzer BMW     1m19.453s  + 1.101s
22.  David Coulthard     Mucke Mercedes    1m19.480s  + 1.128s

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