Lausitz DTM: Green passes Ekstrom to win again

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.