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Hocki Hocki tututututu!
Sooooooo…early start on thursday! At 7.30 my phone went. Wendy and she was lost. She’s got sat nav, but apparantly the sat nav didn’t know where to find my town as she ended up in Lochem, not quite that near to where I live...Nor that I know how to get from Lochem to my town, but sat nav decided to work properly once she added the postal code and half an hour later she arrived and we were on our way to Heidelberg.

Fast I must say. I drove the first bit, once arriving in Germany I speeded up and nearly hit 180 km/h with a Seat Ibiza. Wendy then took over and downhill we did nearly 200!! In a Seat Ibiza!! But then our fun abruptly ended as we saw a couple of guys down the road with...yes...a laser gun. Busted...while doing 150 when only 120 was allowed...oops... Anyway, we must have driven to Heidelberg with an average speed of 160 km/h and arrived at about 12.30PM.
Oh right, and when I was overtaking, there was this really pushy twat in a Beemer 3 series coupe behind me, who obviously was in a rush and wanted to pass me, but I was not impressed, kindly waved at him, which annoyed him even more. Ah well, shit happens *snort*

We couldn’t check in yet, because the somewhat grumpy woman didn’t know which rooms were ready and which weren’t. So? We could have paid and recieved our key, but nooooo, we had to wait till one o’clock. We went to the nearby zoo as they’ve got some animals in front of the entrance so we had some fun with 2 bears who were making out. Knut 2 in the making!! Or Flokke 2...whatever you prefer...

We then headed back to check in and the woman was like: “I need all of your HI cards.” Yup...cool, mine expired end 2007, Carola was the only one who had a valid card and Wendy and Debbie didn’t even have one, so Carola and me checked in, claiming the others were arriving later. Now we are supposed to show our cards later...Sure...like that’s ever going to happen...Oh, and she didn’t notice my card had expired already!

Exchanged birthday presents and I’ve got the coolest clock ever! With piccies of my lovely guys! Me totally loves it!!
Watched Pirates of the Caribbean (Look! There’s a boy in the water! CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow... Right where I left you...not where I left you...Puppet! They are more like guidelines anyway. I admit...obsessed...) and then headed into town to get something to eat.

Friday meant another early start as we wanted to be at the track soon. At breakfast there was this group of catering people and their boss wore a suit!! I mean, you are in a youth hostel! You don’t wear a suit in a youth hostel!!
We of course had a DTM Virgin with us. It was her first ever race, so she had to be properly introduced to the drivers! Also, since Wendy had her birthday on April 5th and mine is on the 30th so we decided to celebrate our birthday in Hocki, and Carola has baked cakes, which we were going to offer to the drivers. We doubted they’d take one, but it was worth a try...

The first guy we ran into was Timo, I just shouted his name and he stopped, as it was really quiet, no one bugged him, but us. We had a short chat with him, at 8.30AM and he was in an totally good mood! I said he had to continue where he had left off and he said he’d try.
At the same time, Renger van der Zande came by and he recognized us, said goodmorning and laughed that we were early. Which is true, but the obsessed ones are always well on time!

Chris Albers was the next one to be seen and he was in a pretty good mood as well, although he had to go to a meeting and he said he’d be back soon. We didn’t want to wait for that and went to check out the Mercedes guys first.
Bruno came our way and was very pleased we had brought a DTM virgin with us. I’d say; proper competition for the Brunos!
Next one was Jamie and he was well surprised our DTM virgin was British. Hmmz, where have I heard that before...Jamie, you are not that original...And of course, the british gentleman that he is, he introduced himself as well.
Next up was another DTM virgin, so it’s two DTM virgins here! Maro Engel was well pleased to see us, I reckon anyways and Carola and I done a Maro sandwich.
Again we saw Renger and done a sandwich with him as well. Wonder if he’s getting fed up with us already...

Then we went to check out the F3 paddock and took some pictures there, bugged some guys and had a rather weird picture taken of a mechanic striking a rather strange pose on Renger’s car...

As we waited over the Persson trucks for Mathias, we saw Paul di Resta and Bruno Spengler approaching, but the guys seemed to be in somewhat of a rush. Well, Paul always is, as he usually runs past you. Bernd Schneider also approached us, as usual holding his phone. I mean, I can act like an obsessed idiot, but he’s got a phone obsession!!
Ralf was approaching as well, saying he had no time to sign, because he had to go to a meeting. Hmmz, is that the same guy as the one who claimed a short while ago that he really looked forward to the DTM and meeting the fans?

Mathias was walking around as well and we called him over, but he said he’d be back soon as the guys had a meeting. We decided to wait and the first one to return was Gary Paffett, well pleased to have his photo taken with Debbie.

And then...Mathias!! Naturally we greeted him with 3 kisses and chatted with him for a bit. We’d introduced Debbie to him as well and as Bruno was there as well, she’d done a sandwich with these two guys. I totally forgot to congratulate Mathias with his ace speedcars results, and only just realized that when I saw someone carrying a speedcar photo. Quickly congratulated him with it and said he’d done ace. He was well proud of it, and he’s got every right to be! Then Wendy and I had a foursome *cough* with Bruno and Mathias. Just because the first one was still there... :p

Susie was signing in between the trucks and she of course met our DTM virgin as well, who, by now was totally over the moon and massively impressed that it’s so easy to meet the drivers. Woot! Another one hooked on DTM! We’ve done our job right!!

Tom Kristensen was on his way inside, but I just shouted his name and he came out again, meeting our not so DTM virgin anymore. He thought he had to do with his teammate Katherine Legge, which was well, not a weird guess as there’s a clear resemblance between her and Debbie *cough* Tom was just joking around, but was really nice as well! He said he had to drink tea, because an old git like him needed a cup of tea to be fast around the track.

Our next victim was Martin Tomczyk, who chatted with us in English and his English is just adorable! He was the first one we offered a cake and he’d liked to have one! We were sooo pleased with that and it got even better when an Audi employee asked what he wanted to drink. Now he had cappuchino with cake! And yes, the cakes were perfectly okay, because we didn’t die after eating one!

Susie refused our birthday cake though, possibly because of the calories *giggles*

We then ran into Stinki Winki, aka Markus Winkelhock, aka Mister Golden Spyker and he still remembered me *whoei!* Some people dared to give him a heavy squared shaped, somewhat golden and engraved thingy, which was cool, but not as cool as our Golden Spyker, because that was made with love *snort*. Stinki Winki was offered a cake as well, but had to say no as he’d ‘already had too much chocolate’. Us, smart as ever then asked if he’d like one in the afternoon, which was fine, but we didn’t run into him anymore later on.

We then went to Süd, but were not allowed to get to the oberrang. When we asked the woman if we could get up for a brief moment to hang our banners, she agreed, which was really nice of her. We done so and then went down to watch the DTM practice. Which turned out to be delayed, due to foggy weather, resulting in the helicopter not being able to land at the nearby hospital. Instead we got the F3 practice first and then DTM. I’ve got some really cool photos!! But you’ve possible already seen those on my website and if not, shame on you and have a look soon! One of the Japanese F3 drivers crashed right in front of us, but typically enough my camera wasn’t working...
Oh and I forgot, the car of Chris Albers rocks the world! I love it! You can easily spot it eventhough it’s at the other end of the track!!
At the end of the practice there was a code red as Susie’s car got fire and apparantly the marshalls were a bit too enthusiastic in using the fire extinguiser, which was quite crap of them...

Annoyingly enough, the wind played up and we had to walk up to the Oberrang to fix the banners a couple of times *sigh* Later we gave up...

After the DTM practice we headed back to the paddock and spotted Oliver Jarvis, who was just about to enter the motorhome, but walked back out when I started to bug him. Offering him a cake was easy, he definitely wanted one! But did ask if they weren’t ‘Amsterdam cakes’ *snort* We convinced him by saying his teammate already had one and he was still walking around.

We met up with Henk and Paul who’d like to have a cake as well and while talking to them, Timo popped up and we offered him a cake. Timo wasn’t that hard to be convinced either and he opted for the chocolate one! The poor guy was not spotted by anyone, until we bugged him. Felt a bit sorry as he now had to sign for people, but at least he had a cake for later! *giggles*

We had some doubts at what time the training started, due to the earlier delays and we ran into Dr Wolfgang Ullrich. Asked him and he was like: “That’s a very good question!” Turned out he wasn’t 100% sure, but then looked on his paper and said everything was delayed for one hour. So practice was about to start.
We saw Susie, in normal pants shortly before the 2nd practice started and it was obvious she couldn’t drive the 2nd test.

I walked over to the grandstand with Henk and Paul (Wendy, Carola and Debbie were going to bug the F3 guys) and there was this really annoying drunk guy trying to have a conversation with us, something we weren’t really waiting for. He was quite dumb and I wondered what part of the word NO he didn’t understand...

It started to rain more and more and the track was wet! It’s soooo cool to see the DTM cars on a wet track. A few missed the corner and gone wide, but not serious happend. Got some nice photos though.

It was getting quite chilly and later on, it turned out the F3 qualifying was cancelled. I’m not quite sure why, but I reckon it’s because of the rain as that was quite heavy.

We briefly went back to the paddock, which was quite deserted, no driver to be spotted and as the weather was crap, we went back home.

We’d done some exclusive michelin kind of dinner shopping *couchcrackerssaladmeatyoghurtscough* and had dinner. It’s not allowed to bring your own food into the hostel, but then again, we’d also sneaked wine in and out of the hostel. We had to buy cutlery, and ended up at the DM store, where they’ve had baby spoons! Muwhaha, but at least they were useful and we drove back home, enjoying a michelin star style of dinner *cough*, while our banners where drying up.

In the Maro sandwich!


I couldn't resist


F3 guys


Yes, it's been dry on Friday as well


But that changed pretty quickly...

Hocki Hocki tututututu! Part 2
Saturday morning we arrived at the track quite early, hoping not all the drivers would have arrived. The first one we ran into was Oliver Jarvis, and we asked him how the cake tasted. He laughed, said he had taken a small bite, but wasn’t allowed to eat it until Sunday afternoon as apparantly he was overweight. Dunno where that came from as he doesn’t look overweight at all! He’s quite skinny, but perhaps he’s got big bones *giggles*

Next one to be spotted was Winki Winkelhock. “Have you got time for a cake now? I doubt you’ve had too much chocolate already.” But now he blamed breakfast, so we said we’d bug him after quali, which was fine. (Only we didn’t in the end, because of other stuff...)

We waited in the paddock and saw Mathias trying to run away from the fans, in which he half succeeded. Gary tried to do the same, by claiming he had to have breakfast, but gave up after a while when there was a mass of fans stopping him. Paul tried to be Paul, but did pose for a photo with Debbie though. Alex Premat looked a bit distracted, but still, he posed as well.

When we thought everyone had pretty much arrived, we headed to Audi and ran into Henk and Paul. We decided to wait for Chris, but he wasn’t anywhere to be seen. Katherine Legge came out, but I almost missed her. Almost. F3 quali was done and Henkie Waldschmidt came walking back. His body language showed total disappointment. Poor guy. Then Chris came out in his typical way of trying to avoid the fans, that weren’t there anyway, because they were all at Merc for a certain Ralf Schumacher. Finally Chris came outside and greeted us with a ‘Goodmorning!’ Turned out he had been here since 8AM. He said the car was pretty hard to drive, but despite that he did pretty good yesterday! Chris of course would like to have a cake, but was somewhat suspicious that perhaps we’ve done stuff in it, so he’d offer it to his mechanic first. When we told him Tomczyk and Jarvis already had one he was somewhat convinced and took a small bite. He drove quali later on, so he was fine.

We went to the Merc grandstand to watch the final practice and I was hoping for some flames from the guys, but they weren’t as useful as last year... Hardly any flames to be seen and no flames to be captured on camera.
The first F3 race started and Nico Hulkenberg was having a comfortable lead over Mika Mäki. Renger van der Zande did pretty good as well, after having a pretty poor qualifying. But then we had a horror moment when Jon Lancaster drove at the back of another card and launched himself into the air. He flew over, landed up side down and shove off track, turning over again when he hit the gravel. I of course did not take a photo of it. I had just zoomed my camera in at the maximum to try and get some overtaking manouvres when it happend...so that was a big disappointment. Fortunately the guy turned out to be pretty much okay, but I don’t know if he can start tomorrow. At the restart, Hulk had to park his car and Renger was one of the quickest on track. He finished 8th, starting from pole tomorrow. We waved madly with the Dutch flags and got a wave from him. We walked back to the paddock to congratulate Renger with the result and offered him another birthday cake, which he gladly accepted! Also, he asked if we were the mad idiots on the grandstand. Euh...yup! Pretty cool he spotted us! The German guy who was sitting behind us started to moan, but shut up you old miserable git, we stood there for like 30 seconds! When Renger had passed us, we dropped the flags! Moaning cow!

The pitlane was open for the pitwalk and we quickly went inside. Of course the whole pitlane was full with people, so we just took a photo of Mathias’ and Susie’s car and then the pitlane closed already, so we walked to the exit where Henkie Waldschmidt’s car was still parked. He drove into someone at the start and his front suspension broke. Took some photos of that and then left the pitlane. We went to check out the Porsche paddock and the F3 paddock. Spotted the cups at team Mucke and took F3 race winner Mika Mäki in the sandwich for a photo.

Went back to the grandstand to watch DTM quali and after the quali, which was succesfull and not so successfull. Timo did awesome, he’s on pole *YAY*, Mathias didn’t do too awesome, and has to start from P18. Good news, it can only get better tomorrow!!

After quali we headed to the Porsche paddock as the guys were driving their cars over to the pitlane as they had their qualifying ahead of them. Patrick Huisman showed up and Wendy reached out to his car, with a cake in his hand. He laughed and waved, muwhaha.

We then sat down at the Mercedes VIP lounge as the Mercedes press conference was about to start. We only had to wait for 2.5 hours...*sigh*
The Porsches were done with quali and we spotted Patrick Huisman, so I shouted: “PATRICK!!!! You’d like another cake now?” but he refused, possibly because he had a team meeting.

Only two more hours to wait...
My bum was starting to hurt because I sat down on the ground for aaaages...

But finally, finally Florian König showed up and the press co was about to start, with a special guest: MIKA! That was an ace surprise!!
When he came over to our way, we said Debbie was new at DTM and she was sooo pleased to meet Mika. He was so kind to us. Chatted, joked. Really cool. Typically Mika.
After Mika, Mathias showed up and of course we screamed our lungs out. Mathias wasn’t too pleased though, which is logical, because quali didn’t go that well unfortunately.
Susie was next and she and Mika kissed! Big time busted! Muwhaha, hihi...okay...pathetic (That’s us!!). Maro Engel was next and while he was giving autographs, he practically gave the whole paddock one. Hihi, trying to gain fans! Kidding! We are lost already... :S
Gary Paffett was asked whether he spoke German already. Noooo, of course not. Gary can only race, Gary cannot learn, I reckon. Susie however, was kind enough to mention he already knew one word in German; Apfelschorle (aka Apfelsaftschorle), followed by laughter from the crowd.
Maro Engel in the meantime had come over to our side and Nobbie Haug was interviewed. When the fans could ask Nobbie questions, me and Wendy shouted “Wo ist Alex?!” But noooo, no answer on that question. Maro however had to laugh, and said it was probably hard to get Alex back in DTM. *sigh* we know that :’( Uncool! Stupid Nobbie...Stupid Merc...
Baco Bernd was proving once again he’s got a sense of humour. Ralf was next and the madhouse broke loose. *sigh* pushing people and all that. I did manage to get the three photos I had brought with me signed by him though! That was cool. But then again, they were cool photos
Jamie was next and proudly announced he knew one German word: Guten Tag. When he walked down to sign, me and Wendy shouted: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Noooo, it’s Jamie Green! He of course had to laugh and came our way a little later. We told him his banner had turned pink, because of yesterday’s rain and he didn’t really know what to think of that, but of course we’ll get him a new one for Zandvoort. No pink banner anymore! Jamie deserves a proper banner!
Last was Bruno as he qualified best. When he came down to sign we asked Jamie if it was possible to have a sandwich photo with Bruno, because that was Debbie’s mission. He then shouted: “BRUNO! Photo!” Bruno at first said he’d show up later, but Jamie insisted he had to hurry up, so Bruno hopped over. It was not that easy, but Wendy managed to take a photo of Debbies sandwich and miss Debbie was a very happy bunny!

Oh and the weather was really friendly today! I even got a sunburn!

Sunday was again quite an early day. Eventhough the DTM warm up starts at 1 now, we figured quite a few people would be heading to the track early. And indeed they did. We were put on a parking lot in Stuttgart so to speak! They even ran shuttle buses to the track, but since two buses had just left, one other was approaching and the mass amount of people waiting (They could easily fill 3 buses!) we’d opted for a walk. It was about half an hour and the weather was okay. The officials had hung signs to the track, so we didn’t get lost this time!

Arriving at the track, the Porsches were just about to start and we watched those for a short moment before we headed on to the DTM paddock. Maro Engel had just arrived and we spotted Renger as well. Wished him luck for the second race, which he started from pole and when Maro came closer, Debbie was about to ask him for an autograph, when suddenly he ran away. We were like; WTF?!?! But he ran over to Renger to wish him luck as well, I reckon...Then he came our way again and Debbie got her autograph and me and Wendy got a sandwich! Oh, and he asked if we were still looking for Alex *snort*
Not all drivers had arrived, as the mass of people waiting at the driver’s parking place was huge! Bernd Schneider arrived, with his son and he first had to sign for hundreds of people before he could try and make his way to the paddock. Bruno, Susie and Gary arrived as well. Gary in a fancy (possibly rented) Mercedes A-class btw *giggles*
We then headed to the Mercedes grandstand as we still had to hang our banners and watched the F3 race. Fortunately not a horror crash like yesterday, but still quite an entertaining race, which was won by Renger! Well, after a massive lack of sleep, a sunburn and a victory from Renger, we were just getting more and more annoying and our first mission was: RENGER!
We headed to the paddock and practically ran into him. Congratulated him, but he had to go to the press co so we’d said we’d be coming over somewhat later.

Then headed to the DTM paddock to do some more stalking and my Maro radar was working perfectly. I spotted him and me and Wendy rushed towards him, shouting that Renger had won and if he had seen it. Of course he had (stupid question) and he asked if we could pass on our congratulations if we’d see Renger and he said he’d text him later (I wonder if Maro was getting annoyed by us already... :S).
Also, I spotted a dude wearing the weirdest outfit ever and I turned to Wendy saying: "Look at the outfit from that dude. He looks like a weirdo!"
With all due respect, but how was I supposed to know he was the king of some African country?!

At one of the Porsche teams there was a cup standing on the car and I took a photo of that. An annoying bloke was standing next to it, so I cut him off the photo, never realizing it was the driver of the car *sigh* I can’t know everything...can I?

We then headed to the F3 paddock and took some photos at the Prema box. Charlie Kimball’s car was standing in the middle, heavily damaged due to the start crash when some other guy and Henkie Waldschmidt drove into the back of his car.
We had our photo taken with a champagne smelling Renger and then hopped off to Nico Hülkenberg who was talking to some people.
A kiddo asked him for an autograph and he was like: "Have you got a marker with you?" The poor kiddo didn’t, but fortunately for him, there were 3 obsessed chicks waiting for Hülk, who all happend to have a marker with them, so that problem was solved quite easily. Next problem though; where to sign? The kiddo wanted his autograph on his arm and Hülk was like: "Really? Are you sure?" Followed by a heavily nodding kid. I bet he’s not gonna have a shower for a while
We asked Hülk for another sandwich photo and he was like: "Again?!" Yes mister, I wasn’t there earlier! So I still needed a photo :p

We headed back to the Porsche paddock to look for Patrick Huisman and were talking a bit about him and Mike Verschuur (Where did he finish anyways?!) and well, stupid girly talk really, when all of a sudden I noticed a bloke, walking on our left with a huuuuuuuuuuge grin on his face...Ehm...euh...could that be? Would that be? Smoothly changed the subject, in case he was. I don’t have a clue what Mike looks like, but I bet it was him. Later on we met Henk and Paul again and asked what Mike looked like. Turned out it was him...hmmz...not the cleverest move we had made there *sigh* Ah well, at least now I know for sure what he looks like!

We headed back to the Mercedes grandstand and saw Mika was giving an interview on stage. By the time we got there he was done and drove back to the paddock on his scooter.
The good thing about the Mercedes grandstand is the fact that they always have an interview in front of it, this time with Mika, Nobbie, Niki Lauda and Mr Hamilton. Lewis wasn’t there, but he’s most likely to attend a DTM race this year as him and his dad are massive DTM fans.

Oh, hihi, and on the screen we saw drivers hopping to the toilet. Ralf was done, Stinki Winki was next and Mathias had to wait for his turn *giggle* So they are human after all!
During the drivers parade we noticed a couple of guys were missing; Mathias Lauda (we figured Winki had locked him up in the toilet ), Bruno Spengler and Mike Rockenfeller weren’t there. Miss Legge was waving American Style and Ralf (who absolutely adores his fans...) couldn’t really be arsed to...We were shouting when Jamie was interviewed and he must have spotted us as we were the only for standing at that time :S
Oh, and judging the photos some of the drivers and the guys that were interviewed before the driver’s parade noticed our banners *YAY*. On one photo Niki Lauda looks like; wtf?! Has my son got a banner made for him?!

The DTM race was pretty boring. Not that much action. Just some overtaking attempts in front of us, of which some succeeded. The only one who didn’t manage to finish was Chris Albers, because Ralf had collided with him in the Spitzkehre and Chris had to give up. I was well pleased Timo was second (so he did continue where he had left off!), a little less pleased with the results of Jamie, Mathias and Maro, but the season has just started, a lot can still happen! And I’d rather seen Martin Tomczyk overtaking Bruno Spengler. He tried everything he could, but didn’t succeed. Pity.

By that time, dark clouds had reached the track, but the rain came a bit too late. And it was just a small shower anyways, because the sun was back really quick. I finally spotted Sabrina (I was beginning to think she wasn’t there this weekend) and had a brief chat with her. Then headed to the media center to congratulate Timo, but the guys took a short route towards the Audi VIP lounge. Bugger!

Sat down at Mercedes and just watched people. Maro was going to the pits with a garbage bag, filled with whatever. See, now there’s a driver who’s helpful to the team!
My Mathias radar wasn’t working that well though as I did say: Ey, who’s standing over there? When a mass of people rushed over to one of the trucks. Wendy, who’s Mathias radar was working a little better and me rushed over and took some pics.
Tom Kristensen came back, with a beer in his hand and signed for a few people, then said he had to go back to Audi.
My Timo radar though, was working perfectly and I spotted Timo from miles away. Jumped up, congratulated him with P2 and had my photo taken with him. Mattias Ekström walked past us a short while after.
When we were about to leave, we spotted Mathias and waited for a bit. When he came over we had a short chat (he was about to leave as well) and then took the long walk back to the parking lot. Had dinner at the McDonalds and then drove back home.

We must have set a new record! Seriously! We were fast!! And...even better news; WE HIT THE 200 KM/H!!!! Downhill that is, but we did it! I wanted to take a photo of it for proof, but by that time we had to slow down because of traffic. Oh, and no guys with laser guns this time, well at least, not that we’ve seen

MIKA!


Mathias on track. Took this pic with my mate's camera, which is ab fab! But she didn't want to swap cameras, so now I am stuck with my crappy one again


Renger after his first victory of the season! I'm a tad pissed I didn't get the whole car on camera though. And yes, I've asked him on Hyves whether he spotted us, because it does look like he's looking our direction1


Renger in the sandwich!


Start of the DTM race


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Wow!!! what a great report!!!! Sorry for the late response - I tried to read it while at work but every time I was getting in to thte story I got busted by the boss

Great time ))) those DTM guys at least are not scared of the fans like most of the racing drivers from other categories! )) gold star for the DTM Virgin, I'm sure she's a proper convert now

When is the next one?

Mika's shot seemed cool!

As for the helpful driver Maro, I remember seeing Jorg Muller during the WTCC round in Brands Hatch - with a hoover!!!!!

"Today I am in charge of ze hooover"

The next one is F1 in Monaco and after that it's the DTM in Zandvoort

Haha! Speaking of Jörg Müller and 'ze' WTCC, there's a cool clip on the dutch website featuring Tom Coronel, Rob Huff and Jörg Müller having a guy talk in the bar of a hotel. There's some Dutch at the beginning, but soon the convo turns to English and occassionally it's hilarious!!

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