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Aberdein followed up Friday's practice session by reaching fourth place in qualifying to suggest that he was coping well with the cold conditions. He confirmed that in the race as he remained in the fight for a podium finish right to the end.
Reactions to the 15th DTM race of the 2020 season.
"After qualifying, it was clear that the race would be hard work. The cold temperatures are a real challenge. Jonathan did very well. Driving close behind another car for such a long time is tough on the front tyres. We have known that for many years in the DTM and today we saw that again with Jonathan and Timo. You have to try and overtake. If you don't manage that, things get difficult. Congratulations to Jonathan on his fourth place. That is a very good result for him. He's on an upward trajectory at the moment and I hope that he will make more progress tomorrow. Of course, three BMWs in the top ten is not the result that we had expected or hoped for. We will have to see if we can get to grips with the tyre wear a bit better tomorrow and improve a bit in qualifying. Congratulations to
"There's not much to be said after the race. We moved up from 14th place to tenth and managed to score a point. With our early pit stop, we hoped that the safety car would make another appearance but that was not the case, so the strategy didn't work out. We are losing too much time on the straights compared to the other cars around us. That is a bit frustrating. We have to analyse that and hopefully we will improve for tomorrow."
"There's really not much to be said after today's race. I think that finishing ninth represents a solid result when you consider that I started from 13th on the grid."
"I was unable to continue with the second set of tyres in qualifying due to some extreme vibration and I had to return to the pits. That knocked us back to 15th on the grid. We were relying on a safety car in the race but unfortunately that didn't work out."
"The car was really good today. I made a good start and had a good first lap. It was quite disappointing to get a drive-through penalty for my collision with
"It was a good race for us. We started from fourth position and were still in fourth as we crossed the finishing line, just a few seconds behind third place. I think we recorded the best possible result and have to be pleased with that. It was still a very big gap to first place so we still have some work to do ahead of tomorrow's race to improve the car and record as good a result as possible."
"Of course, I'm not very happy with how the race turned out. I received a penalty on the Indy restart and qualifying hadn't gone so well this morning as I made too many mistakes. We have to pull everything together for tomorrow. The car definitely has the pace to do better. The penalty cost us a few points today. That is disappointing for me but we will try again tomorrow."
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