Thus supplanted the Scot the leader so far, team-mate Bruno Spengler, from the top of the standings. The Canadian retired on lap 23 from early problems with the left rear wheel. "It was a surprising victory today. The start was not ideal, but the car was unbeatable and unbelievable speed. Luckily I was able to overtake Timo Scheider. to land in front of him was of course very important. We hope that we can now stay up. Between Bruno and me is the close box. But I feel full of confidence and will do my best, "said Di Resta after his sixth success in the DTM.
Di Resta behind two Audi drivers were happy about the second and third places. Timo Scheider started from pole position, led the race for a long time and had to be the end all the new overall leader Di Resta beaten. "Place is two for the Germany finals okay. Of course, I had the desired otherwise. But in racing you can do nothing, simply because there is one performance only. For next year we must take the performance from the last race, "the DTM champion said of 2009. Mike Rockenfeller presented also in good form and made it the best driver of a vehicle from 2008 still in third place on the podium. The Briton Gary Paffett (Mercedes-Benz), the mitmischte also still in the title fight, finished the final of the Germany-DTM in fourth. leads in the overall standings with 63 points ahead of Di Resta Spengler (60) and Paffett (49).
What is certain: After the early exit of Audi driver Mattias Ekström, the first time in three years to be a pilot in a new AMG Mercedes C-Class DTM Champion. In 24 years now, Mercedes-Benz will provide for the ninth time overall the DTM title holders.
The tenth DTM race weekend of the year from 29th 31 October in the Italian Adriatic instead.
Mercedes-Benz motorsport director Norbert Haug: "This success is doing very well. We had a perfect strategy and saw a very exciting race. Now we know that we will win the title. But I think it will put out only in Shanghai, who is new DTM Champion. A little bit but we celebrate today. "
Audi motorsport director Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich: "After Eki retired, we knew that we in the championship can not attack. We had hoped to win the race. At the beginning of the season we had a good performance, but many points given away. In the middle of the season we had a hole where the performance has not passed. Now we are again approaching come to the right performance. "
0 comments:
Post a Comment