Schubert BMW’s Rene Rast charged from seventh on the grid to a dominant victory within the second DTM race of the Nurburgring weekend.
The three-time DTM champion took the lead after simply six laps and went on to regulate proceedings forward of team-mate Marco Wittmann in second, with Lucas Auer finishing the rostrum in third for Landgraf Mercedes to reclaim the championship lead.
Not like Saturday’s race, when the chaotic begin induced an early race stoppage, the drivers saved it clear as Ben Dorr held the lead from pole, adopted by Auer and Rast.
However the BMW driver wasn’t completed but and went after Auer for second place. Initially of lap 4, the 38-year-old handed the Landgraf Mercedes driver and set about after Dorr, catching him two laps later, and pulled away from the sphere.
Shortly after the primary pit window opened, Jules Gounon was the primary to cease for recent tyres, however the Winward Mercedes driver suffered a problem with the left-front wheel, dropping plenty of time and dropping down the order.
Timo Glock was additionally among the many early stoppers, however his cease lasted unusually lengthy, because it later transpired a gearbox downside together with his Dorr McLaren pressured him to retire.
Lucas Auer, Mercedes-AMG Workforce Landgraf Mercedes-AMG GT3
Photograph by: Alexander Trienitz
Race chief Rast got here in final for his first cease, however nothing modified on the entrance, because the Schubert BMW driver stayed forward of Auer and Wittmann, who battled over second place – Wittmann clearly quicker at this level however couldn’t discover a well past.
Saturday’s winner Jack Aitken was hit from behind by Land Audi’s Ricardo Feller, spinning the Emil Frey Ferrari driver round, which earned the Swiss driver three penalty laps that dropped him out of the factors.
On the second spherical of stops Auer pitted earlier than Wittmann, however a left-front difficulty induced a prolonged cease for the Mercedes driver and allowed the Schubert BMW driver by way of to second with no struggle.
However on the entrance Rast cruised to his thirtieth DTM victory in his profession with an virtually 8s hole to team-mate Wittmann.
Maro Engel completed fourth for Winward Mercedes, adopted by Ayhancan Guven (Manthey Porsche) and HRT Ford driver Arjun Maini.
Comtoyou Aston Martin driver Gilles Magnus claimed seventh, his greatest DTM end result up to now, forward of polesitter Dorr after two sluggish pitstops. Jordan Pepper (Grasser Lamborghini) and Thomas Preining (Manthey Porsche) accomplished the highest 10, with former factors chief Aitken coming residence in sixteenth after his tangle with Feller.
The following two DTM races will happen in simply two weeks’ time 22-24 August on the Sachsenring.
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