Gary Paffett tops DTM warm-up at Brands Hatch
Gary Paffett set out his stall for the Brands Hatch DTM race by setting the fastest time in warm-up
The who will start the race from the front row - hit the front after seven minutes with a lap of 42.822 seconds, knocking his HWA Mercedes team-mate Ralf Schumacher off the top in the process.
Martin Tomczyk worked his way up to second place - 0.014s behind Paffett - by the end of the session, the Phoenix Audi driver being the best of those in older-spec machinery. Timo Scheider's newer Abt A4 was third.
Schumacher fell to fourth by the end with his other team-mates Jamie Green and Bruno Spengler fifth and eighth. Between the latter HWA drivers were the older Mucke Mercedes of David Coulthard and Maro Engel.
Mattias Ekstrom (Abt Audi) and Christian Vietoris (Persson Mercedes) completed the top 10.
Once again the field was separated by a tiny margin. Just 0.3s covered the gap from Paffett back to the 16th placed Abt car of Miguel Molina.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Gary Paffett HWA Mercedes 42.822s 2. Martin Tomczyk Phoenix Audi 42.836s + 0.014s 3. Timo Scheider Abt Audi 42.850s + 0.028s 4. Ralf Schumacher HWA Mercedes 42.860s + 0.038s 5. Jamie Green HWA Mercedes 42.862s + 0.040s 6. David Coulthard Mucke Mercedes 42.885s + 0.063s 7. Maro Engel Mucke Mercedes 42.905s + 0.083s 8. Bruno Spengler HWA Mercedes 42.930s + 0.108s 9. Mattias Ekstrom Abt Audi 42.936s + 0.114s 10. Christian Vietoris Persson Mercedes 42.966s + 0.144s 11. Edoardo Mortara Rosberg Audi 42.973s + 0.151s 12. Mike Rockenfeller Abt Audi 43.001s + 0.179s 13. Oliver Jarvis Abt Audi 43.014s + 0.192s 14. Filipe Albuquerque Rosberg Audi 43.064s + 0.242s 15. Renger van der Zande Persson Mercedes 43.071s + 0.249s 16. Miguel Molina Abt Audi 43.136s + 0.314s 17. Susie Stoddart Persson Mercedes 43.381s + 0.559s 18. Rahel Frey Phoenix Audi 43.506s + 0.684s
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