Pressure mounts for VX Racing after Rockingham qualifying

Fabrizio Giovanardi kept his HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship  title hopes on track at Rockingham today, qualifying in seventh place, seven positions ahead of Colin Turkington, his main rival for the Drivers’ Championship. Jason Plato, a long shot for the title honours, put himself back into the mix by taking pole position for the first of the three races tomorrow. Newcomer to VX Racing this season, Andrew Jordan, takes 11th place on the grid tomorrow, with Matt Neal pleased just to have taken part in the qualifying session after a heavy impact and substantial damage in a practice session accident. He starts 15th for the first race at the Corby track.  

Audi increases lead in DTM qualifying duel

- Tom Kristensen clinches another pole position for Audi
- Dane atomizes track record at Barcelona
- Six Audi A4 DTM cars in the top ten

Audi increased its lead in the qualifying duel to 7:1 at Barcelona. In the eighth race of the season, the Dane Tom Kristensen clinched the seventh Audi pole position this year. With a time of 1m 06.413s the 42-year-old achieved an impressive new track record at the Circuit de Catalunya. With six A4 DTM cars on the top nine grid positions Audi has a good overall starting base for the race on Sunday (broadcast live starting at 1:45 pm German time on “das Erste”).