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Filipe Albuquerque stays on top in second DTM practice at Oschersleben

Filipe Albuquerque continued his excellent practice form at Oschersleben by setting the pace in the second session for this weekend's DTM race at the circuit

The Portuguese driver's 1m22.306s lap with half an hour to go was 0.056s faster than the similar old-spec Audi of Miguel Molina, and allowed the Team Rosberg driver to stay on top, ahead of the Abt man, for the rest of the session.

Bruno Spengler was the best of the Mercedes drivers, and the quickest of those in newer-spec machinery. The HWA man was third, 0.199s off Albuquerque's pace, but significantly five places ahead of championship leader Martin Tomczyk.

Mike Rockenfeller and Timo Scheider were fourth and sixth quickest in their Abt Audis, the pair sandwiching Ralf Schumacher's HWA Mercedes, despite both having offs at Turn 1 during the session.

Oliver Jarvis (Abt Audi), Tomczyk (Phoenix Audi) and Gary Paffett (HWA Mercedes) were next up, while Mattias Ekstrom completed the top 10.

Abt driver Ekstrom, like his team-mates Rockenfeller and Scheider, went off at Turn 1 after outbraking himself. Each of the trio was able to make a U-turn on the small patch of asphalt run-off without reaching the gravel trap.

Grand prix winner David Coulthard was the best of the old-spec Mercedes drivers in 11th for Mucke while Jamie Green (HWA) and Albuquerque's team-mate Edoardo Mortara were lower than usual in 13th and 15th.

Pos  Driver                Team/Car          Time       Gap
 1.  Filipe Albuquerque    Rosberg Audi      1m22.306s
 2.  Miguel Molina         Abt Audi          1m22.362s  + 0.056s
 3.  Bruno Spengler        HWA Mercedes      1m22.505s  + 0.199s
 4.  Mike Rockenfeller     Abt Audi          1m22.517s  + 0.211s
 5.  Ralf Schumacher       HWA Mercedes      1m22.525s  + 0.219s
 6.  Timo Scheider         Abt Audi          1m22.625s  + 0.319s
 7.  Oliver Jarvis         Abt Audi          1m22.636s  + 0.330s
 8.  Martin Tomczyk        Phoenix Audi      1m22.674s  + 0.368s
 9.  Gary Paffett          HWA Mercedes      1m22.768s  + 0.462s
10.  Mattias Ekstrom       Abt Audi          1m22.774s  + 0.468s
11.  David Coulthard       Mucke Mercedes    1m22.817s  + 0.511s
12.  Christian Vietoris    Persson Mercedes  1m22.825s  + 0.519s
13.  Jamie Green           HWA Mercedes      1m22.901s  + 0.595s
14.  Maro Engel            Mucke Mercedes    1m22.919s  + 0.613s
15.  Edoardo Mortara       Rosberg Audi      1m23.075s  + 0.769s
16.  Renger van der Zande  Persson Mercedes  1m23.091s  + 0.785s
17.  Susie Stoddart        Persson Mercedes  1m23.569s  + 1.263s
18.  Rahel Frey            Phoenix Audi      1m23.611s  + 1.305s

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