I'm still trying to work through watching the race (working on Sundays sucks fat hairy balls), but by lap 7 I had to unload onto the forums.
Forgive me for being an American and watching DTM races several hours after they've aired on Youtube. I'm currently 7 laps (of 49) into this morning's Nurburgring race and I've already seen more excitement in less than 10 laps than in an entire season of racing on uninspired, boring "motorsport park" tracks. I'm not saying the 'Ring's GP track isn't boring, it's probably the worst offender of them all considering the fantastic Nordschleife it tags onto.
This race has been exciting just because of the rain and what it's done to the field!
I'm a huge BMW fan and watching Mike Rockenfeller only get to P11 in qualifying was somewhat tempered by Bruno Spengler not doing much better and ending in P10. My spirits rose when i watched Augusto Farfus and Marco Wittman (the newcomer I can't help but love) get P1 and P2 respectively for BMW.
Enter rain. Right at the start into the turn 1 hairpin, Rockenfeller gets taken out by a self-sacrificing BMW driver (thanks Joey Hand), which drops him nearly to last in field, he gets a couple of spots back when more cars spun out in turn 2, but he's off Spengler's tail so I'm happy, right?
**** got real in the next few laps. Safety car comes out, Rocky dives into the pits earlier than anyone else (before the official pit window opened, actually) and puts on the wets while everyone else is still out in slicks. He comes out and is immediately dominating, passing cars left and right, by lap 4 he's already gone from dead last to 14th. Lap 5, pit lane officially opens and everyone dives in including Farfus who managed to hold on to P1 but Wittman stays out keeping a BMW up front for us until the very next lap when he biffs a corner and runs into the barrier. I still don't know if he got out of there. Guess I'll find out.
Now Rocky's 5th right back behind Spengler who's moved up to 4th due to the pit entry and Wittman's rookie mistake. This is all bad news. Rocky's on wets, Bruno's on slicks, and sure enough by the next go 'round Rocky's passed Bruno and the two cars left in front of them pit, Bruno pits and bam! Mike Rockenfeller is P1 where he's been many a time the last few races and my dreams of seeing him toppled from the top of the driver points race may be crushed. Granted, I've got 42 more laps of racing to watch, Farfus got out of the pits in time to be P3 and Rockenfeller's first pit didn't count because it was before the pit window, so he's still got to do two more pit stops to everyone else's 1.
I just needed someplace to share why my heart is racing right now, don't mind me guys.
Pretty much only a cosmetic difference though... Although.. It will be a damn sexy cosmetic difference!!
Meh, it's gonna look great. Not quite disappointed that it's only a cosmetic difference, but I'm definitely disappointed no gt3/gt3 m4 will be around yet. Now THAT would look sick and not be a silhouette car. Not that the Z4s don't look great.
And, when I met him, he seemed to be a nice guy, too.
Doesn't make the actual racing any less exciting though.
