Spengler winner DTM; Hunter-Reay in IndyCar champion
The driver quebecois Bruno Spengler was one of the heroes of the last weekend of motor sport, like American Ryan Hunter-Reay who raid the nose and beard Australian Will Power the IndyCar championship.
Bruno Spengler is on the Oschersleben circuit, a modern track, but nestles deep in the countryside of the former East Germany, he had to battle through the eighth of ten tests the 2012 DTM series. Driving his BMW M3, the weekend well debute, the Quebecois realizing the pole position ahead of his two rivals for the title, Gary Paffett and Jamie English Green, Mercedes AMG C-Coupe.
Race, Spengler remained constantly under pressure from his rivals, but never give them a chance to exceed. He thus won a very important victory because it allows him to recover the second place in the championship facing Green and return only eleven points leader Gary Paffett. A victory worth twenty to five items as F1, so everything is playable, but anyway, Bruno can be proud of the work from his time at BMW. It was in fact the third win for BMW Spengler, who makes his return to the DTM there less than six months, after twenty years of absence.
IndyCar, drivers competed for the last time this season, in a 500 mile race on the Super Oval Fontana, California. Perfectly known Team Penske, one of whose drivers Will Power track, arguing for the third year in a row the title. And as the previous two years, Power ends up in the wall, leaving the mature crown Ryan Hunter-Reay! Andretti Autosport driver needed to finish in the top five for Power exceed the final score, mission accomplished brilliantly, Hunter-Reay ending the ordeal fourth, behind winner Ed Carpenter and the Ganassi Racing teammates Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon.
Leader of the race with twenty laps to do, the Quebecois Alex Tagliani has seen its engine explode. An abrupt end to "Tag" in the small team of former Bryan Herta driver. But it seems has decided to continue the adventure with Tagliani, who brings a lot of experience to the stable and also excellent results once the engine change done before the Indy 500, while the disastrous Lotus block was replaced by the Honda.
In NASCAR, Sprint Cup has its first ordeal was counting for the final round ("The Chase"), on the oval Chicagoland, Joliet has (Illinois). The victory went to Brad Keselowski. The Nationwide series has also produced Chicagoland (Ricky Stenhouse Jr of success) while camping World Trucks series was at Newton (Iowa) or the young Ryan Blaney has prevailed.
Endurance, competitors at the World Championships competed in the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, at Interlagos (Brazil). A race event because for the first time this year, Audi was defeated, the victory going to the prototype hybrid (petrol engine / electricity) Toyota TS030 pilot Alexander Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre. Two crews Audi round off the podium. Endurance always, but this time in the American Le Mans, the duo Klaus Graf / Luhr again imposes his Honda ARX-03a prototype Virginia.
Finally, World Championship Rally, another event: Sebastien Loeb did not win! Finland's Jari-Matti Latvala (Ford Fiesta RS WRC) was the winner of the Rally of Great Britain present in the forests of Wales. However Loeb (Citroen DS3 WRC) finished second and increased his lead in the championship.
