Blomqvist tops final pre-season DTM test

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Rookie Tom Blomqvist kept BMW on top in the second day of the DTM’s final pre-season test at Oschersleben, leading fellow Brit Gary Paffett.

After reigning champion Marco Wittmann led Tuesday’s first day of running, Blomqvist was fastest on Wednesday with a 1m20.216s lap set in the afternoon.

In a strong day, the F3 graduate was also second in the morning, his 1m20.431s just over a tenth behind pacesetter Paffett in the ART-run Mercedes.

While he didn’t improve in the afternoon and was fifth for the session, Paffett’s 1m20.309s remained the second-fastest of the day, while Mattias Ekstrom was third for Audi, ensuring each manufacturer was represented in the top three.

“We basically had a great test,” two-time DTM champion Ekstrom said.

“The conditions were good and we tried a lot of different things. Fine-tuning is the name of the game in the DTM at the moment.”

Led by Blomqvist, the afternoon was dominated by BMW, with Martin Tomczyk and Maxime Martin second and third.

Tomczyk’s 1m20.578s, set inside the final 10 minutes, elevated him from seventh in the morning to fourth overall.

Mercedes pair Pascal Wehrlein and Daniel Juncadella missed the bulk of the morning running, with Juncadella’s stoppage causing a red flag, and they ended the day fifth and 12th respectively.

Beyond Ekstrom it was a quiet day for Audi with Jamie Green and Timo Scheider the next best in eighth and ninth.

Scheider handed his car over to Phoenix team-mate Mike Rockenfeller at lunchtime, meaning a total of 13 drivers set times.

The three-day test concludes on Thursday.

DAY TWO TIMES:

Pos  Driver             Car        Time         Gap      Laps
 1.  Tom Blomqvist      BMW        1m20.216s             132
 2.  Gary Paffett       Mercedes   1m20.309s    0.093s   146
 3.  Mattias Ekstrom    Audi       1m20.531s    0.315s   158
 4.  Martin Tomczyk     BMW        1m20.578s    0.362s   138
 5.  Pascal Wehrlein    Mercedes   1m20.622s    0.406s   83
 6.  Maxime Martin      BMW        1m20.640s    0.424s   154
 7.  Timo Glock         BMW        1m20.804s    0.588s   142
 8.  Jamie Green        Audi       1m20.906s    0.690s   147
 9.  Timo Scheider      Audi       1m20.984s    0.768s   74 
10.  Paul di Resta      Mercedes   1m21.010s    0.794s   124
11.  Edoardo Mortara    Audi       1m21.021s    0.805s   136
12.  Daniel Juncadella  Mercedes   1m21.218s    1.002s   75
13.  Mike Rockenfeller  Audi       1m21.243s    1.027s   66

Blomqvist tops final pre-season DTM test

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