“My target is clear,” 2006 Hockenheim winner Spengler insisted. “After finishing runner-up twice in 2006 and 2007, I want to win the title this year. I will fight for it from the very first lap in Hockenheim.”
“In my six races at Hockenheim so far, I have started from pole position twice, posted four fastest race laps and taken one victory, in the 2007 season finale,” added Green. “I like the circuit and that's a good basis [from which] to repeat my win from the last race here.”
“Four podium finishes and fifth place overall last year were a reasonable balance of my rookie season,” said a determined di Resta, who has stepped up to the ‘works' outfit for 2008. “I want to justify my promotion to the HWA team with more good results, and hopefully I will achieve the first one in Hockenheim.”
Gary Paffett has also contributed to Mercedes' impressive tally of 26 victories at Hockenheim since the marque entered the DTM back in 1988, with the three-pointed star ominously having taken the chequered flag first in the Baden-Württemberg region ten times in the last eleven outings, missing out only in the opening round in 2007. Indeed, the Stuttgart concern has triumphed in almost half of the races it has entered in the series, against rivals from Alfa Romeo and
BMW to Opel and latterly Audi.
Though Paffett remains in a year-old car with Persson Motorsport in 2008, the 27-year-old has already proved that was no barrier to success by triumphing at Oschersleben last year, and he has happy memories of the circuit that also plays host to the German Grand Prix.
“Four years ago, I won my first DTM race in Hockenheim,” the McLaren-Mercedes
Formula 1 test driver reminisced, “and two-and-a-half years ago I won the 2005 DTM championship title here. This is my best motivation for an optimum start to the new season.”
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