2001 Oschersleben Feature Race

2001 Oschersleben Feature Race
The Oschersleben A Circuit in 2001
Race Information
Date	20 May 2000
No.	22
Event	ADAC-Preis von Sachsen-Anhalt 2001
Location	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Format	100 km / 40 min (Feature Race)
Lap length	3.668 km (2.279 mi)
Distance	28 laps / 102.704 km (63.817 mi)
Qualifying Result
Pole Sitter	{{{{{natp}}}}} Unknown
Team	{{{{{natpt}}}}} Unknown
Time	Unknown
Fastest Lap
Driver	Bernd Schneider
Team	D2 AMG-Mercedes
Time	1:23.688 on lap 16
Race Result
First	Second	Third
Marcel Fässler	Bernd Schneider	Uwe Alzen
Winner Team	Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes
Time	40:16.669
Race Guide
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2001 Oschersleben Qualifying Race		2001 Sachsenring Qualifying Race

The ADAC-Preis von Sachsen-Anhalt 2001 Feature Race, otherwise known as the 2001 Oschersleben Feature Race, was the sixth race of the 2001 DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship, staged at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on 20 May 2001. The race would see Marcel Fässler sweep to his first Feature Race victory in the series, having started from pole position.

Fässler had won the earlier Qualifikationslauf to secure pole, and duly aced his start to claim an early lead. Bernd Schneider, meanwhile, would power through to secure second from Laurent Aïello into the first corner, with the Frenchman's Abt-Audi also falling to Uwe Alzen later around the opening tour.

The race quickly settled down, with Fässler eeking out a lead over Schneider, while Aïello also briefly slipped behind Mattias Ekström in the Junior Audi. The Frenchman would, however, quickly get back ahead of the Swede and escape his attentions, leaving Ekström to form a bottle neck in fifth.

Elsewhere, Martin Tomczyk was the first to stop in the top half of the field, although with cold tyres the German youth immediately slid onto the grass at pit-out. He duly dropped to the very back of the field, with Peter Dumbreck the first of the leaders to stop a lap later.

On lap seven Fässler made what was arguably his first mistake of the weekend, suffering a wiggle exiting turn three before sliding onto the grass at turn four, handing the lead to Schneider. In response the Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes squad opted to pit the Swiss racer earlier than planned, hoping to undercut Schneider.

Two laps later and Schneider was in for his stop at the end of lap thirteen, with Fässler running quicker on fresh tyres. As a result the #1 Mercedes emerged just behind the #6 Mercedes, and began to challenge the Swiss racer for the lead with a succession of quick laps.

Elsewhere, Alzen would stalk the lead duo but was unable to intervene in the fight, while Dumbreck streaked up the field to fourth after his early stop. Aïello, meanwhile, found himself in a fight with teammates Christian Abt and Ekström, while Timo Scheider was running in a lowly twelfth at the head of the Opel hoard, and lapping significantly slower than the leaders.

The fight for victory would last until the final lap, with Schneider ultimately having to concede defeat after sliding wide at Triple. Fässler hence swept across the line for his second win of the day ahead of the defending Champion, while Alzen trailed the #1 Mercedes across the line. Dumbreck secured fourth ahead of the Abt-Audi trio of Aïello, Abt and Ekström, with Marcel Tiemann, Patrick Huisman and Thomas Jäger rounding out the scorers for Mercedes.

Background

There was little change to the Championship picture after the opening race of the day, with Bernd Schneider remaining at the head of the charge. The German racer's lead had been reduced to ten points by Laurent Aïello however, while Marcel Fässler had moved closer to the pair of them after his triumph. Thomas Jäger was next up ahead of Peter Dumbreck, while Timo Scheider remained as the only Opel driver on the scoreboard.

In the Teams' Championship D2 AMG-Mercedes remained at the head of the hunt, although Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes had closed the gap to seventeen points. Abt Sportsline had also made ground in third, albeit not much, while Original Teile AMG-Mercedes had retained fourth. Service 24h AMG-Mercedes and Abt Sportsline Junior were next up with Eschmann AMG-Mercedes and OPC Team Holzer I the only other scorers.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2001 Oschersleben Feature Race is displayed below:

2001 Oschersleben Feature Race Entry List
No.	Name	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Livery
1	Bernd Schneider	D2 AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:BSC 01 Livery.png
2	Peter Dumbreck	D2 AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:DUM 01 Livery.png
3	Joachim Winkelhock	Opel Team Holzer I	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2001	File:WIN 01 Livery.png
4	Timo Scheider	Opel Team Holzer I	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2001	File:TSC 01 Livery.png
5	Uwe Alzen	Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:ALZ 01 Livery.png
6	Marcel Fässler	Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:FAE 01 Livery.png
7	Manuel Reuter	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2001	File:REU 01 Livery.png
8	Yves Olivier	Opel Team Phoenix	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2000	File:OLI 01 Livery.png
9	Marcel Tiemann	Eschmann AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:TIE 01 Livery.png
10	Patrick Huisman	Eschmann AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2001	File:HUI 01 Livery.png
11	Michael Bartels	Opel Team Holzer II	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2001	File:BAR 01 Livery.png
14	Thomas Jäger	Original Teile AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2000	File:JAE 01 Livery.png
15	Christijan Albers	Original Teile AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2000	File:ALB 01 Livery.png
16	Alain Menu	OPC Euroteam	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2000	File:MEN 01 Livery.png
17	Hubert Haupt	OPC Euroteam	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2000	File:HAU 01 Livery.png
18	Christian Abt	Team Abt Sportsline	Abt-Audi	TT-R 2001	File:ABT 01 Livery.png
19	Laurent Aïello	Team Abt Sportsline	Abt-Audi	TT-R 2001	File:AIE 01 Livery.png
20	Peter Mamerow	Mamerow Racing Team	Opel	Astra V8 Coupé DTM 2000	File:MAM 01 Livery.png
22	Mattias Ekström	Team Abt Sportsline Junior	Abt-Audi	TT-R 2001	File:EKS 01 Livery.png
23	Martin Tomczyk	Team Abt Sportsline Junior	Abt-Audi	TT-R 2001	File:TOM 01 Livery.png
24	David Saelens	Service 24h AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2000	File:SAE 01 Livery.png
42	Darren Turner	Service 24h AMG-Mercedes	AMG-Mercedes	CLK-DTM 2000	File:TUR 01 Livery.png
Source:

Grid

The grid for the 2001 Oschersleben Feature Race was based on the results from the 2001 Oschersleben Qualifying Race:

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
		______________
Row 1	______________	1
	2	Marcel Fässler
	Laurent Aïello	______________
Row 2	______________	3
	4	Bernd Schneider
	Uwe Alzen	______________
Row 3	______________	5
	6	Peter Dumbreck
	Mattias Ekström	______________
Row 4	______________	7
	8	Patrick Huisman
	Christian Abt	______________
Row 5	______________	9
	10	Thomas Jäger
	Martin Tomczyk	______________
Row 6	______________	11
	12	Christijan Albers
	Marcel Tiemann	______________
Row 7	______________	13
	14	Manuel Reuter
	Darren Turner	______________
Row 8	______________	15
	16	Yves Olivier
	Alain Menu	______________
Row 9	______________	17
	18	Michael Bartels
	Timo Scheider	______________
Row 10	______________	19
	20	David Saelens
	Hubert Haupt	______________
Row 11	______________	21
	22	Joachim Winkelhock
	Peter Mamerow	______________

Race

Results

The final classification of the 2001 Oschersleben Feature Race is displayed below:

2001 Oschersleben Feature Race Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Race Time	Fastest lap	Pts.
1st	6	Marcel Fässler	Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes	28	40:16.669		20
2nd	1	Bernd Schneider	D2 AMG-Mercedes	28	+4.228s	1:23.688	15
3rd	5	Uwe Alzen	Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes	28	+5.209s		12
4th	2	Peter Dumbreck	D2 AMG-Mercedes	28	+10.524s		10
5th	19	Laurent Aïello	Abt Sportsline	28	+12.170s		8
6th	18	Christian Abt	Abt Sportsline	28	+16.658s		6
7th	22	Mattias Ekström	Abt Sportsline Junior	28	+19.839s		4
8th	9	Marcel Tiemann	Eschmann AMG-Mercedes	28	+24.844s		3
9th	10	Patrick Huisman	Eschmann AMG-Mercedes	28	+32.837s		2
10th	14	Thomas Jäger	Original Teile AMG-Mercedes	28	+36.678s		1
11th	15	Christijan Albers	Original Teile AMG-Mercedes	28	+37.008s
12th	4	Timo Scheider	OPC Team Holzer I	28	+37.454s
13th	8	Yves Olivier	OPC Team Phoenix	28	+40.135s
14th	11	Michael Bartels	OPC Team Holzer II	28	+55.084s
15th	7	Manuel Reuter	OPC Team Phoenix	28	+57.648s
16th	16	Alain Menu	OPC Euroteam	28	+59.186s
17th	3	Joachim Winkelhock	OPC Team Holzer I	28	+28.814s
18th	17	Hubert Haupt	OPC Euroteam	27	+1 Lap
19th	24	David Saelens	Service 24h AMG-Mercedes	26	+2 Laps
20th	23	Martin Tomczyk	Abt Sportsline Junior	20	+8 Laps
DSQ*	42	Darren Turner	Service 24h AMG-Mercedes	28	Disqualified
Ret	20	Peter Mamerow	Opel Team Mamerow	5	Damage
Source:

• Italics indicate that a driver set fastest lap.
• * Turner was disqualified from the race results for using tyres outside of his allocation.

Milestones

• Second victory for Marcel Fässler.
• HWA Team claimed their twelfth victory as an entrant.
  • Mercedes registered their twelfth win as a manufacturer.

Standings

Bernd Schneider had retained the lead in the Championship after the third weekend of racing came to a close, having moved onto 54 points for the campaign. However, race winner Marcel Fässler had closed the gap to second with 46 points, while Laurent Aïello had closed to within fourteen of the leader after a strong weekend. Peter Dumbreck was next up in fourth on 28 points ahead of Uwe Alzen, while Marcel Tiemann had become the season's fifteenth different scorer.

In the Teams' Championship it was D2 AMG-Mercedes whom still led the charge, having moved onto 82 points for the campaign. Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes were next up in second on 68 points, while Abt Sportsline were in third on 44 points. Fourth place was occupied by Original Teile AMG-Mercedes on 22 points ahead of Service 24h AMG-Mercedes, while OPC Team Holzer I were still Opel's only scorers in eighth.

2001 Drivers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Bernd Schneider 54 ◄0 2nd Marcel Fässler 46 ▲1 3rd Laurent Aïello 37 ▼1 4th Peter Dumbreck 28 ▲1 5th Uwe Alzen 22 ▲3 6th Thomas Jäger 22 ▼2 7th Martin Tomczyk 12 ▼1 8th Pedro Lamy 12 ▼1 9th Christian Abt 7 ▲5 10th Patrick Huisman 6 ▼1 11th Mattias Ekström 6 ▲1 12th Darren Turner 3 ▼2 13th Marcel Tiemann 3 ▲10 14th Bernd Mayländer 2 ▼3 15th Timo Scheider 1 ▼2

2001 Teams' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st D2 AMG-Mercedes 82 ◄0 2nd Warsteiner AMG-Mercedes 68 ◄0 3rd Abt Sportsline 44 ◄0 4th Original Teile AMG-Mercedes 22 ◄0 5th Abt Sportsline Junior 18 ▲1 6th Service 24h AMG-Mercedes 15 ▼1 7th Eschmann AMG-Mercedes 11 ◄0 8th OPC Team Holzer I 1 ◄0

Only point scoring drivers and teams are shown.

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