Kristensen sets the benchmark
Tom Kristensen lowered the Brands Hatch Indy circuit lap time benchmark in the second session of testing for this weekend's maiden round at the track
After being second quickest in this morning's session, the Dane improved his best lap time by half a second to top the second 90-minute session of testing at the British circuit.
Kristensen's lap of 43.158 seconds was nearly two tenths of a second quicker than the rest of the field, with Bernd Schneider's Mercedes the next quickest.
The pace the cars have run today shows just how quick DTM cars are on the 1.2-mile Indy layout. By comparison, the fastest ever British Touring Car lap was set by Yvan Muller in his Astra Coupe in April 2001, with a time nearly six seconds slower - 48.942.
Mattias Ekstrom showed well, as he bids to get his championship challenge back on track, with the third quickest time this afternoon, ahead of the Mercedes of Mika Hakkinen, just five hundredths of a second further back.
Continuing the Audi/Mercedes split at the front of the field was Heinz-Harald Frentzen's Audi in fifth, ahead of Jean Alesi's 2005-spec Mercedes.
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