Renger van der Zande (stern AMG Mercedes C-Class) will begin the ninth race of the 2011 DTM season in Valencia on Sunday as the best-placed Mercedes-Benz driver in third position on the grid. The DTM rookie posted a 1:31.173 minutes in the shoot-out at the end of qualifying. Mattias Ekström (Audi / 1:30.608 minutes) will be on pole.
Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class) tock the honours on the second day of the show event at the Munich Olympic Stadium, prevailing over Audi’s Edoardo Mortara in the grand finale. The Canadian was joined by two other Mercedes-Benz drivers in the semi-final: Renger Van der Zande (stern AMG Mercedes C-Class) and Christian Vietoris (Junge Sterne AMG Mercedes C-Class).
Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class) crossed the finish line in the second race of the DTM season at Zandvoort as best-performing Mercedes-Benz driver in second place and 1.4 seconds behind winner Mike Rockenfeller (Audi). This was the second podium of the 2011 season for Spengler after his victory in the opening race and the 24th of his DTM career.
Mercedes-Benz driver Bruno Spengler (Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Class) will start the second race of the 2011 DTM season from pole position on Sunday. The race starts at 14:00 CET and will be shown live on the German channel ARD (available via Astra and Eutelsat). Spengler, victor of the season opener at Hockenheim, posted a lap time of 1:31.805 minutes during the top four shoot-out at the end of qualifying. It is the ninth pole of his DTM career and the fourth for Mercedes-Benz at the Zandvoort circuit. Furthermore, this will be the 107th time in DTM history that a Mercedes-Benz driver has started from pole position.
A successful weekend for Mercedes-Benz: In addition to the hat trick for Bruno Spengler at Hockenheim (pole position, race win and fastest lap of the race), all three victories in the Formula 3 Euro Series went to drivers of Mercedes-Benz powered cars – two to Roberto Merhi and one to Daniel Juncadella. To cap it, the SLS AMG GT3 won the VLN (German endurance championship) race at the Nürburgring.