Spengler: Pitstops crucial for BMW

Bruno Spengler believes honing pitstops and race strategies quickly will be crucial to BMW's chances of success in its return DTM campaign in 2012. The German manufacturer is returning to the series after 20 years away next year, with Spengler, who finished third in the 2011 standings, switching over from Mercedes. Speaking for the first time publicly as a BMW driver, Spengler said that perfecting pitstops, which take between two and four seconds in the DTM as opposed to the much longer stationary times in the GT contests that BMW is used to, would be a key element during the season.

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