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Tomczyk tops morning practice

Martin Tomczyk set the pace in the second DTM free practice session on Saturday morning

The Audi driver topped the times ahead of the 2008-spec A4 of Alexandre Premat, while a late effort from Mercedes' Bruno Spengler to jump ahead of Timo Scheider prevented Audi from locking out the top three places.

Spengler's lap meant that the quickest Mercedes was just under two tenths of a second shy of the pace, but the gap had been bigger than that for most of the session.

Audi did not have a trouble-free morning though, as several of its drivers were repeatedly locking wheels at the hairpin and going straight on.

The session did not feature the usual late flurry of activity that had become customary during Saturday free practice in the DTM, with the only other driver to improve right at the end being David Coulthard.

The Scot was down in 17th out of the 18 cars as the session drew to a close, but he moved up to 15th - ahead of Ralf Schumacher - just before the chequered flag.

Pos  Driver             Car       Time       Gap
 1.  Martin Tomczyk     Audi      1m32.560s
 2.  Alexandre Premat   Audi      1m32.726s  + 0.166s
 3.  Bruno Spengler     Mercedes  1m32.747s  + 0.187s
 4.  Timo Scheider      Audi      1m32.800s  + 0.240s
 5.  Paul di Resta      Mercedes  1m32.874s  + 0.314s
 6.  Mike Rockenfeller  Audi      1m32.923s  + 0.363s
 7.  Oliver Jarvis      Audi      1m32.973s  + 0.413s
 8.  Gary Paffett       Mercedes  1m33.054s  + 0.494s
 9.  Mattias Ekstrom    Audi      1m33.106s  + 0.546s
10.  Markus Winkelhock  Audi      1m33.182s  + 0.622s
11.  Jamie Green        Mercedes  1m33.413s  + 0.853s
12.  Miguel Molina      Audi      1m33.476s  + 0.916s
13.  Susie Stoddart     Mercedes  1m33.537s  + 0.977s
14.  Franky Cheng       Mercedes  1m33.566s  + 1.006s
15.  David Coulthard    Mercedes  1m33.796s  + 1.236s
16.  Ralf Schumacher    Mercedes  1m33.844s  + 1.284s
17.  Maro Engel         Mercedes  1m33.861s  + 1.301s
18.  Katherine Legge    Audi      1m34.149s  + 1.589s

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