Warm-up: Alzen fires warning shot

Uwe Alzen topped the warm-up times in his AMG Mercedes CLK, albeit by 0.048s from pole sitter Christian Abt, the latter backed up by Audi team mate Mattias Ekstrom.

Alzen's team mate Marcel Fassler was third fastest, ahead of Laurent Aiello (Audi), local hero Christian Albers (Mercedes), Bernd Maylander (Mercedes) and the two D2 AMG Mercs of Peter Dumbreck and Bernd Schneider.

Manuel Reuter was again the top Opel pilot, but could only manage to set the 12th quickest time.

Weather conditions were sunny for the warm-up, but the brisk sea breeze is threatening to carry in rain showers this afternoon.

The qualification race begins at 15.22 local time (14.22 BST).
The ban on overtaking at the first corner today has been lifted after a meeting between team bosses and drivers. Hefty fines will now be given out if anyone triggers an accident at Tarzan on the opening lap of either the qualification race or main event.


Uwe Alzen, 2001 Warsteiner Mercedes CLK, 1m38.065s
Christian Abt, 2001 Abt Sportsline Audi TT-R, 1m38.113s
Mattias Ekstrom, 2001 Abt Sportsline Audi TT-R, 1m38.115s
Marcel Fassler, 2001 Warsteiner Mercedes CLK, 1m38.174s
Laurent Aiello, 2001 Abt Sportsline Audi TT-R, 1m38.381s
Christijan Albers, 2000 Persson Mercedes CLK, 1m38.482s
Bernd Maylander, 2001 Eschmann-Manthey Mercedes CLK, 1m38.556s
Peter Dumbreck, 2001 D2 Mercedes CLK, 1m38.610s
Bernd Schneider, 2001 D2 Mercedes CLK, 1m38.790s
Patrick Huisman, 2001 Eschmann-Manthey Mercedes CLK, 1m38.810s
Darren Turner, 2000 Rosberg Mercedes CLK, 1m38.843s
Manuel Reuter, 2001 Phoenix Opel Astra Coupe, 1m38.970s
Martin Tomczyk, 2001 Abt Sportsline Audi TT-R, 1m39.149s
Alain Menu, 2001 Euroteam Opel Astra Coupe, 1m39.199s
Timo Scheider, 2001 Holzer Opel Astra Coupe, 1m39.235s
Thomas Jager, 2000 Persson Mercedes CLK, 1m39.374s
Michael Bartels, 2001 Holzer Opel Astra Coupe, 1m39.705s
Yves Olivier, 2000 Phoenix Opel Astra Coupe, 1m39.718s
David Saelens, 2000 Rosberg Mercedes CLK, 1m39.727s
Joachim Winkelhock, 2001 Holzer Opel Astra Coupe, 1m40.382s
Hubert Haupt, 2000 Euroteam Opel Astra Coupe, 1m40.495s
Peter Mamerow, 2000 Mamerow Opel Astra Coupe, 1m42.246s