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Frijns tops Lausitzring DTM test for Audi
Audi driver Robin Frijns set the quickest time across four days of official pre-season testing for the new DTM season at Lausitz.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Apr 19, 2019, 7:01 AM
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Frijns' best lap of 1m35.169s was set on Wednesday, edging out Audi stablemate Mike Rockenfeller's benchmark from the opening day of the test on Monday by 0.021 seconds.
Former champion Rockenfeller finished Monday's running 0.043s up on another Audi driver, Jamie Green, whose time stood as the third-best of the week.
Rene Rast, second-quickest on Wednesday, was fourth fastest, while Nico Muller, who topped Thursday's action but with a time slower than he managed on Wednesday, completed the top five.
Best non-Audi was BMW's Joel Eriksson in sixth place on the combined timesheets with a time 0.715s off the pace of Frijns.
Two more BMW drivers, Bruno Spengler and Timo Glock, were next up, while the new WRT squad's top driver Jonathan Aberdein was ninth-fastest ahead of another Audi representative, Loic Duval.
New WRT signing Pietro Fittipaldi, whose place on the 2019 grid was confirmed on Thursday, ended up with the 11h-fastest time of the week, just over a tenth slower than teammate Aberdein.
Jake Dennis was quickest of the four-strong R-Motorsport Aston contingent in 14th overall, 1.2s off the pace, with Ferdinand Habsburg another tenth and a half back in 15th.
Testing times (combined):
Pos. Driver Car Time 1 
Robin Frijns Audi RS 5 1:35.169 2 
Mike Rockenfeller Audi RS 5 1:35.190 3 
Jamie Green Audi RS 5 1:35.233 4 Rene Rast Audi RS 5 1:35.487 5 
Nico Muller Audi RS 5 1:35.569 6 
Joel Eriksson BMW M4 1:35.884 7 
Bruno Spengler BMW M4 1:35.957 8 Timo Glock BMW M4 1:35.957 9 
Jonathan Aberdein Audi RS 5 1:36.053 10 
Loic Duval Audi RS 5 1:36.076 11 
Pietro Fittipaldi Audi RS 5 1:36.194 12 
Sheldon van der Linde BMW M4 1:36.249 13 Marco Wittmann BMW M4 1:36.255 14 
Jake Dennis Aston Martin Vantage 1:36.345 15 
Ferdinand Habsburg Aston Martin Vantage 1:36.503 16 Paul di Resta Aston Martin Vantage 1:36.580 17 
Daniel Juncadella Aston Martin Vantage 1:36.701 18 
Philipp Eng BMW M4 1:36.823
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