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Jamie Green leads Norisring DTM Saturday morning practice for Mercedes

Jamie Green went fastest in the second DTM free practice session at the Norisring on Saturday morning

The HWA Mercedes driver, who has been dubbed 'Mr Norisring' in deference to his three wins in the past four years at the Nuremberg street track, set the pace in 48.755s during the second half of the 90-minute session and was never seriously challenged.

Martin Tomczyk came closest to knocking Green off the top spot; a 48.764s lap at the end of the session moving the champion to within 0.009s of the Briton and hauling his RMG BMW up from seventh spot to second.

Championship leader Gary Paffett made it a pair of HWA cars inside the top three while Bruno Spengler put his Schnitzer BMW fourth.

Mattias Ekstrom headed the standings at the midway point of the session in his Abt Audi, at which point the track surface at the Scholler 'S', which had been relaid overnight after problems on Friday, was doused with water in a bid to cool down the fresh asphalt. Ekstrom fell to fifth by the end, but was still Audi's best performer.

Ralf Schumacher (HWA), Augusto Farfus (RBM BMW) and Dirk Werner (Schnitzer) were next up with Spielberg winner Edoardo Mortara ninth despite a spin at the final corner in the last minute. His Rosberg Audi team-mate Filipe Albuquerque completed the top 10.

The unluckiest driver of all was Britain's Andy Priaulx. Approaching Turn 1, the right-front suspension on his RBM BMW appeared to collapse, leaving the former World Touring Car champion powerless to prevent his car sliding off the circuit.

Priaulx did at least manage to avoid collecting Mike Rockenfeller's Phoenix Audi ahead of him, and after recovering to the track, pulled off at the following turn. He wound up 21st fastest as one of only two drivers not to improve their time in the second half of the session.

Pos  Driver              Team/Car          Time     Gap
 1.  Jamie Green         HWA Mercedes      48.755s
 2.  Martin Tomczyk      RMG BMW           48.764s  + 0.009s
 3.  Gary Paffett        HWA Mercedes      48.801s  + 0.046s
 4.  Bruno Spengler      Schnitzer BMW     48.807s  + 0.052s
 5.  Mattias Ekstrom     Abt Audi          48.818s  + 0.063s
 6.  Ralf Schumacher     HWA Mercedes      48.826s  + 0.071s
 7.  Augusto Farfus      RBM BMW           48.833s  + 0.078s
 8.  Dirk Werner         Schnitzer BMW     48.846s  + 0.091s
 9.  Edoardo Mortara     Rosberg Audi      48.864s  + 0.109s
10.  Filipe Albuquerque  Rosberg Audi      48.916s  + 0.161s
11.  Mike Rockenfeller   Phoenix Audi      48.935s  + 0.180s
12.  Christian Vietoris  HWA Mercedes      48.947s  + 0.192s
13.  David Coulthard     Mucke Mercedes    49.032s  + 0.277s
14.  Miguel Molina       Phoenix Audi      49.047s  + 0.292s
15.  Timo Scheider       Abt Audi          49.111s  + 0.356s
16.  Roberto Merhi       Persson Mercedes  49.113s  + 0.358s
17.  Susie Wolff         Persson Mercedes  49.179s  + 0.424s
18.  Joey Hand           RMG BMW           49.180s  + 0.425s
19.  Rahel Frey          Abt Audi          49.191s  + 0.436s
20.  Adrien Tambay       Abt Audi          49.215s  + 0.460s
21.  Andy Priaulx        RBM BMW           49.327s  + 0.572s
22.  Robert Wickens      Mucke Mercedes    49.458s  + 0.703s

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