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DTM Lausitz
Lausitz DTM: Green passes Ekstrom to win again
Jamie Green became the first double winner on a DTM race weekend since 2002 at Lausitz, leading an Audi 1-2-3-4-5 in round four of the DTM on Sunday.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 31, 2015, 2:08 PM
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Following the change in race format for 2015, Green’s two victories emulated the last double winner Uwe Alzen when the series previously ran two events on each weekend.
Green had to battle past Audi teammate Mattias Ekstrom, who had outdragged him off the startline.
After one failed attempt at Turn 1, Green made it stick a lap later and pulled out an advantage to keep in the lead through the mandatory pitstop cycle.
Green led Ekstrom by 1.7s at half distance, but had pulled away to the tune of 3.5s when the safety car was required with 10 minutes remaining to recover Lucas Auer’s stranded Mercedes after he had spun into the gravel at the end of the back straight.
With just five minutes remaining on the clock, Green managed the restart to perfection – despite complaining that the safety car had been driving too slowly. Ekstrom only received DRS for the last two laps, but Green had a sufficient gap to keep clear of any attack and won by 2.1s.
"I've had so many safety cars when I'm in the lead – it's a joke!" he quipped. "It took me 45 minutes to build that gap. Mattias gave me a good run for my money, not an easy race but very satisfying."
Behind them, Miguel Molina just retained his third position after Timo Scheider’s later pitstop. The German then attacked Molina as fifth-placed Edoardo Mortara closed up on him.
Scheider and Molina swapped places at Turn 1 on lap 26, but Molina tenaciously clung on. He stayed in third until the finsh, ahead of Scheider.
Mercedes youngster Dani Juncadella attacked Mortara around the outside of Turn 1 on the final lap, but was squeezed onto the grass, and only just retained sixth from fellow Merc driver Christian Vietoris and BMW’s Maxime Martin.
In other incidents, Pascal Wehrlein ploughed off at Turn 1 after a clash with Antonio Felix da Costa’s BMW, and Adrian Tambay was pushing into a late spin by Bruno Spengler.
Green now leads the series by 17 points having won three of the four races this year.
The series now heads to the Norisring, a track that has become synonymous with Green victories in recent years.
Pos Driver Car Time Gap 1 Jamie Green Audi 1h02m33.014 2 Mattias Ekstrom Audi 1h02m35.158 2.144 3 Miguel Molina Audi 1h02m38.052 5.038 4 Timo Scheider Audi 1h02m38.692 5.678 5 Edoardo Mortara Audi 1h02m40.722 7.708 6 Daniel Juncadella Mercedes 1h02m42.179 9.165 7 Christian Vietoris Mercedes 1h02m42.920 9.906 8 Maxime Martin BMW 1h02m43.803 10.789 9 Nico Muller Audi 1h02m44.201 11.187 10 Mike Rockenfeller Audi 1h02m45.069 12.055 11 Martin Tomczyk BMW 1h02m45.281 12.267 12 Timo Glock BMW 1h02m45.878 12.864 13 Pascal Wehrlein Mercedes 1h02m47.755 14.741 14 Antonio Felix da Costa BMW 1h02m47.764 14.750 15 Paul Di Resta Mercedes 1h02m48.951 15.937 16 Maximilian Gotz Mercedes 1h02m49.484 16.470 17 Marco Wittmann BMW 1h02m52.917 19.903 18 Robert Wickens Mercedes 1h02m54.339 21.325 19 Bruno Spengler BMW 1h03m14.453 41.439
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