Tuesday 8th May 2012

BMW takes first win of its DTM comeback

It's been a long time since BMW tasted the champagne in DTM - the last race of 1992 - but the boys and girls from Munich are back

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BMW took its first race win in the DTM for two decades, when Canadian Bruno Spengler won at the Lausitzring over the weekend.

BMW's DTM comeback has already brought a spark of excitement back to touring cars - sufficient for us to make the pilgrimage to Hockenheim the other week to witness the reappearance of BMW at first hand. Now, in only the second round of the series, it's staked a firm claim to be right at the sharp end of the grid.

Spengler bagged pole on Saturday, with Brazilian Augusto Farfus making it a front-row lock-out for BMW. And if that makes it sound like it was a dull lights-to-flag parade for Spengler and his BMW, the fact that Brit Gary Paffett finished just a single second behind in his Mercedes - after 52 laps - rather suggests otherwise...

So that's one win to Mercedes, one win to BMW. Does that mean it's Audi's turn when DTM hits Brands Hatch Indy on 20th May?

[anonymous-user]

Why all the fanfare? Where was it when Plato and MG took the lead in the BTCC?
PH - biased sucking of German arse matters!

[anonymous-user]

Ahonen said:

Something to do with the look of the cars, the speed, money, quality of drivers etc, etc.

Most people who want to see BTCC already know it's on - hence the lively debate during each race over who is the dirtiest driver out there.

So are you saying the BTCC and MG isn't worthy of mention in the PH news section? Perhaps there are PHers who don't really follow BTCC (yet) and may be inspired to with a little snippet of news about it. Using your logic there needs be no report on the DTM on here as those who follow it will already know that news. It seems to me that PH journos are in denial of the BTCC and MG. I would say that MG taking a rehashed Rover or a brand new Chinese car (,however you want to see it)and taking on and beating the established teams is more of an accomplishment than BMW's.

[anonymous-user]

Ahonen said:

Something to do with the look of the cars, the speed, money, quality of drivers etc, etc.

Most people who want to see BTCC already know it's on - hence the lively debate during each race over who is the dirtiest driver out there.

So are you saying the BTCC and MG isn't worthy of mention in the PH news section? Perhaps there are PHers who don't really follow BTCC (yet) and may be inspired to with a little snippet of news about it. Using your logic there needs be no report on the DTM on here as those who follow it will already know that news. It seems to me that PH journos are in denial of the BTCC and MG. I would say that MG taking a rehashed Rover or a brand new Chinese car (,however you want to see it)and taking on and beating the established teams is more of an accomplishment than BMW's.