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Audi’s Mike Rockenfeller and Jamie Green are thrilled with their 2-3 finish in today’s race at Oschersleben, on a day when all eight Ingolstadt cars finished in the top-10.$ W' J" M( a' S: i, Q" |6 G5 h
After dropping to fourth on the first lap, Rockenfeller pitted early on lap three and optimised an early standard-option-standard strategy to finish second and take his fourth podium of the 2013 season.
# ^4 k& W }8 K6 ?TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Despite dropping two points to race winner, Augusto Farfus, in the title race, the Phoenix Audi driver has moved even closer to claiming his first DTM title.
2 ^: w3 w9 _1 R; o( ZRockenfeller now needs a second place in either of the final two races at Zandvoort or Hockenheim to take the championship.
8 W" u- J. }+ ^, l3 gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“The second place feels good,” said Rockenfeller after the race. “For a brief moment, I was thinking that I might be able to win, [but] today, Augusto was in a class of his own.
0 o5 D. v# U8 w2 f9 rtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb“That’s why I took it easy on the car and brought second place home.
1 Z: F+ p/ Y8 N& h+ A& L/ c“These were important points for the championship again.”
& {0 n+ p: V! P5 J' URockenfeller’s Audi stable-mate, Jamie Green, took his first Audi career podium with third place after switching from Mercedes for 2013.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。2 R$ z' l: k; ]
The Leicester man inherited pole after Bruno Spengler was handed a five-place grid penalty, but lost out on the start and did not challenge Rockenfeller for the second spot on the podium in the latter stages of the race.
! d3 v. T9 T5 b: o公仔箱論壇However, Green feels he now has the confidence and speed in his Abt Sportsline run RS 5 DTM to challenge for wins in the two remaining races.公仔箱論壇: u0 n* ~- X0 P
“It’s great to be standing on the podium for the first time in my new Audi racing suit,” said Green.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb+ n' U2 I/ o- ~7 o9 d
“Surely, I should be able to do better than take third place, [but] I’m happy about my improvement, [because] my speed in the race was really good.公仔箱論壇% W# o& s( \* P8 c8 {# `! k8 `! f
“If we take that with us into the next races we’ll have the possibility to win.”
9 k$ o6 S$ T) ?0 lGreen has now moved up to 9th in the championship with 35 points. |
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