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Bruno Spengler takes pole at the Norisring – First pole position for BMW Motorsport in the 2015 DTM season.
Sun Jun 28 13:37:00 CEST 2015 Press Release
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The curse has been broken: Bruno Spengler (CA) claimed BMW Motorsport’s first pole position of the 2015 DTM season at the Norisring (DE). On the 2.3-kilometre street circuit, the BMW Team MTEK driver clocked a time of 48.280 seconds in his BMW Bank M4 DTM – four thousandths of a second quicker than Christian Vietoris (DE, Mercedes).
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Norisring (DE), 28th June 2015. The curse has been broken: Bruno
Spengler (CA) claimed BMW Motorsport’s first pole position of the
2015 DTM season at the Norisring (DE). On the 2.3-kilometre street
circuit, the BMW Team MTEK driver clocked a time of 48.280 seconds
in his BMW Bank M4 DTM – four thousandths of a second quicker than
Christian Vietoris (DE, Mercedes).
This was Spengler’s first pole since the last race of the 2013
season in Hockenheim (DE) and the 17th overall in his DTM career.
The last BMW driver to achieve pole was Marco Wittmann (DE) at the
Nürburgring (DE) in 2014. This is BMW’s 44th DTM pole position
since 1984 and the 14th since the brand made its DTM comeback in
the 2012 season.
By qualifying in ninth, Maxime Martin (BE) also made the top
ten. Augusto Farfus (BR), Timo Glock (DE) and António Félix da
Costa (PT) qualified in positions 12, 14 and 17 respectively. Tom
Blomqvist (GB), Martin Tomczyk (DE) and Wittmann had to settle for
positions 20, 21 and 22.
Quote from the best-placed BMW driver.
“I really didn’t expect this result. Our car ran really well
on Friday and we were in the top three in the first free practice
session. We had a good race yesterday and were able to score some
good points. But, now, to be on pole… that’s huge. My car was
fantastic in qualifying. A really big thank you must go to BMW
Team MTEK. The beginning of the season was really hard, which is
why I’m all the more pleased to have achieved pole position. But
this is only half the job – we still have the rest ahead of us and
it won’t be easy. The other drivers behind me are very quick. It
will be tough to keep them behind me, but I will do my best. I
also want to thank the fans for their excellent support. The
atmosphere here at the Norisring is always amazing.” – Bruno
Spengler (BMW Team MTEK, 1st)
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Facts and Figures.
Circuit/length:
Norisring, 2.3 kilometres
Conditions:
Slightly cloudy, 20 degrees Celsius
Pole time:
Bruno Spengler (CA, BMW Team MTEK), 48.280 seconds
BMW Motorsport results*:
#7 Bruno Spengler (CA), BMW Team MTEK, BMW Bank M4 DTM
48.280 seconds – 1st place
#36 Maxime Martin (BE), BMW Team RMG, SAMSUNG BMW M4 DTM
48.484 seconds – 9th place
#18 Augusto Farfus (BR), BMW Team RBM, Shell BMW M4 DTM
48.547 seconds – 12th place
#16 Timo Glock (DE), BMW Team MTEK, DEUTSCHE POST BMW M4 DTM
48.559 seconds – 14th place
#13 António Félix da Costa (PT), BMW Team Schnitzer, Red Bull
BMW M4 DTM
48.610 seconds – 17th place
#31 Tom Blomqvist (GB), BMW Team RBM, BMW M4 DTM
48.719 seconds – 20th place
#77 Martin Tomczyk (DE), BMW Team Schnitzer, BMW M Performance
Parts M4 DTM
48.767 seconds – 21st place
#1 Marco Wittmann (DE), BMW Team RMG, Ice-Watch BMW M4 DTM
48.815 seconds – 22nd place
*The official starting grid may differ from the provisional
qualifying results published in this release.
Useful information:
Bruno Spengler’s last pole in the DTM came on 19th October
2012, at the last race of the season in Hockenheim.
This is Spengler's 17th DTM pole and the fourth at the
Norisring, the others coming in 2007, 2008 and 2011.
This ends BMW Motorsport's ten-month pole drought. The last
BMW driver to achieve pole position was Marco Wittmann at the
Nürburgring in 2014.
The sixth of this year’s 18 DTM races begins at 15:15hrs local time.