Katherine Legge continued to rack up the miles as her new DTM career moved through its second race weekend, but the Briton wasn't entirely happy with her Oschersleben experience.
Having admitted pre-season to learning the circuit via video games, the Futurecom TME rookie started the weekend strongly, out-pacing former
Formula One racewinner
Ralf Schumacher in Friday's free practice session despite running a 2006-spec Audi A4 against the German's 2007 example. However, when it came to qualifying on Saturday, things didn't work out quite as well.
With the 2008 Audis again proving to be the class of the field, and the 2007 examples also holding their own against the Mercedes-mounted opposition, only the 2006-spec A4s found their session ending as early as the first phase, as Legge or TME Futurecom team-mate Christijan Albers and Katherine Legge occupied 17th and 19th on the grid.
"After the tests on Friday, we'd been hoping that the 2006-spec cars would be closer to the current cars," Legge admitted, "But, as early as Saturday morning's free practice session, things didn't go according to our wishes and, in qualifying, the car was not perfect. However, my goal had been to set a time close to that of my team-mate, and this I managed quite well. Three tenths isn't a big deal.”
Starting at the back, however, meant that raceday would be hard for the Briton, and so it proved. Despite bringing the blue-and-white Audi home for a second consecutive finish, and running as high as sixth during the second pit-stop window, she finished a frustrated 19th after spinning at turn one on lap 32 and then losing further time four laps later after serving a drive-though penalty for an on-track indiscretion.
"It was a turbulent race," Legge confirmed after crossing the line in 17th spot, one lap down on the leaders, "I had good race pace, which is pleasing, but I had some handling issues with the car in the later stages and I'm certainly not happy with the result.”
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