{"id":69304,"date":"2013-05-05T19:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gtspirit.com\/?p=69304"},"modified":"2013-05-05T19:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:09:20","slug":"dtm-2013-bmw-scoops-two-wins-at-dtm-season-opener-hockenheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/05\/05\/dtm-2013-bmw-scoops-two-wins-at-dtm-season-opener-hockenheim\/","title":{"rendered":"DTM 2013: BMW Scoops Two Wins at DTM Season Opener Hockenheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspiritmedia.com\/gtspirit\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1-696x385.jpg\" alt=\"BMW wins at DTM Hockenheim\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-69305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/hockenheim-dtm-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a successful 2012, breaking the Mercedes and Audi stronghold, BMW seems to have truly mastered the art of winning DTM races. They emerged victorious in today&#8217;s season opener DTM race at Hockenheim. The result seemed assured after they set the pace during pre-season <a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/2013\/04\/14\/bmw-completes-dtm-test-days-with-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\">testing<\/a> at the very same location. Drivers covered over 8,000km&#8217;s during the pre-season leading BMW to today&#8217;s victory. <\/p>\n<p>Today, it was Augusto Farfus who took first place followed by another BMW driven by Dirk Werner. The race was interesting seeing that Farfus had started on the newly introduced option tires. He carefully managed his DRS to snatch the lead from the ABT Audi on lap six. With the safety car on track by lap 7, Farfus spent the middle section of the race out of position while negotiating a different set of tires. He overtook Danie Juncadella for fifth spot before taking the lead when the cars ahead pitted.<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-7499-69304\">\r\n\r\n\r\n\t\r\n\t<!-- Thumbnails -->\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<div id=\"ngg-image-97265\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"  >\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bmw-motorsports-at-dtm-hockenheim\/hockenheim-dtm-1.jpg\" title=\" \" class=\"thickbox\" rel=\"set_7499\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"hockenheim-dtm-1\" alt=\"hockenheim-dtm-1\" src=\"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bmw-motorsports-at-dtm-hockenheim\/thumbs\/thumbs_hockenheim-dtm-1.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" \/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\r\n\t\t\r\n \t\t\r\n\t<div id=\"ngg-image-97266\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box\"  >\r\n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\r\n\t\t\t<a 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He started in 20th position and ran an ultra-long middle stunt on option tires before finishing second. These two BMWs lead two Mercedes cars driven by Christian Vietoris and Gary Paffett who came third and fourth respectively. Vietoris had earlier on dropped from 3rd to 11th on the opening lap but used a similar strategy as Werner by passing Paffett on the final 10 laps making it to the podium for the first time just like Werner.<\/p>\n<p>Timo Scheider was the best placed Audi at position 6. The other ABT Audi, driven by Adrien Tambay\u2019s, retired after smoke plumes emerged from the engine. The safety car ended Timo\u2019s hopes of snatching a win. He had to stay out for one extra lap compared to his rivals and dropped to 19th. The time sheet below shows that Audi had a truly rough day, unlike their recent experience with the FIA WEC where they are enjoying a winning streak from the Audi R18 e-tron quattro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results after 42 laps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pos Driver              Team\/Car           Time\/Gap<br \/>\n 1. Augusto Farfus      RBM BMW            1h10m11.583s<br \/>\n 2. Dirk Werner         Schnitzer BMW       + 3.692s<br \/>\n 3. Christian Vietoris  HWA Mercedes        + 9.675s<br \/>\n 4. Gary Paffett        HWA Mercedes        + 12.613s<br \/>\n 5. Bruno Spengler      Schnitzer BMW       + 13.212s<br \/>\n 6. Timo Scheider       Abt Audi            + 13.753s<br \/>\n 7. Joey Hand           RBM BMW             + 14.100s<br \/>\n 8. Mike Rockenfeller   Phoenix Audi        + 14.477s<br \/>\n 9. Marco Wittmann      MTEK BMW            + 17.894s<br \/>\n10. Roberto Merhi       HWA Mercedes        + 19.537s<br \/>\n11. Pascal Wehrlein     Mucke Mercedes      + 20.902s<br \/>\n12. Daniel Juncadella   Mucke Mercedes      + 26.169s<br \/>\n13. Martin Tomczyk      RMG BMW             + 30.904s<br \/>\n14. Jamie Green         Abt Audi            + 41.166s<br \/>\n15. Miguel Molina       Phoenix Audi        + 43.535s<br \/>\n16. Filipe Albuquerque  Rosberg Audi        + 54.077s<br \/>\n17. Andy Priaulx        RMG BMW             + 2 laps<\/p>\n<p>Retirements:<\/p>\n<p>   Mattias Ekstrom     Abt Audi            28 laps<br \/>\n   Edoardo Mortara     Rosberg Audi        21 laps<br \/>\n   Timo Glock          MTEK BMW            17 laps<br \/>\n   Robert Wickens      HWA Mercedes        5  laps<br \/>\n   Adrien Tambay       Abt Audi            4  laps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a successful 2012, breaking the Mercedes and Audi stronghold, BMW seems to have truly mastered the art of winning DTM races. They emerged victorious in today&#8217;s season opener DTM race at Hockenheim. The result seemed assured after they set the pace during pre-season testing at the very same location. Drivers covered over 8,000km&#8217;s during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":69305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[25752,6710,4737],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtspirit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}