13.07.2012 ROBERTO MERHI DEBUTS AT THE DTM SHOW WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF OFFERING THE MAXIMUM SPECTACULAR - Grupo Concesur
Spain's Roberto Merhi will participate this weekend in the DTM Show, a very special event that will take place at the Olympic Stadium in Munich and will mark the official halfway point of the 2012 season.
This second edition of the show that the DTM promoter has been organizing since last year will bring together all the participants in a competition that is very different from the others, in which no points will be distributed and whose main objective is to offer the greatest possible spectacle to the more than 50,000 fans who will gather at the stadium.
For this purpose, this year two identical and symmetrical tracks of 614 meters in length have been designed, on which different elimination rounds will be held in pairs until a final winner is proclaimed. On Saturday, the brand competition will take place, in which the four best representatives of each of the three manufacturers taking part in the championship will take part in pairs, and on Sunday the individual race will be held.
In the first of them, Merhi will face his teammate Jamie Green in a first race to fight for one of the four places of the Mercedes-Benz team. On Sunday, his first rival will be BMW's American Joey Hand, with whom he already had a very interesting fight in the last race.
"It will be a totally new experience for me," Merhi acknowledged. "I've never had the chance to participate in a race with this kind of format, so a priori everything is a mystery. The fact that it does not score for the championship will allow me to face it with much more tranquility, but I will try as always to do my best, offering the maximum show to the fans."
The Spaniard traveled to Munich directly from Slovenia, where this week he attended the international presentation of the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class to the media. Merhi accompanied the group of Spanish journalists and had the opportunity to test the different versions that will make up the range that will be marketed in Spain from September 20.
"I find the new A-Class a really nice car," he noted. "Compared to the previous model, it is much more youthful and its design is very sporty. During the presentation, I had the opportunity to test it with the Spanish journalists on all kinds of roads, even on a circuit, and the truth is that it has a really incredible feel at the wheel for a production car. Personally, I would buy it.
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