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DTM Lausitzring
Lausitzring DTM: Auer extends points lead with comfortable win
Lucas Auer dominated the first DTM race at Lausitzring to score his second win of the season in three races.
David Gruz
Edited: May 21, 2017, 10:45 AM
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The Austrian driver had a good launch off the line and led the entire race, gradually extending his lead to seven seconds by the time all the pitstops panned out, and only giving up two seconds afterwards.
Robert Wickens also finished in the same position he started, despite temporarily dropping behind Maxime Martin.
Martin slipstreamed past Wickens in the early stages and kept second until his pitstop.
The BMW driver stopped a lap later than Wickens and, while he comfortably rejoined in second, Wickens soon managed to demote the Belgian.
Martin eventually had to settle for fourth, as Rene Rast, who pitted seven laps later and enjoyed better tyres in the late stages, claimed third, his maiden podium finish in the series.
Martin also came under pressure from Mike Rockenfeller during the final laps, even though the German was on an early-stop strategy.
DTM veteran Gary Paffett was sixth, ahead of Mercedes stablemate Edoardo Mortara.
Mortara was the last driver to pit, on Lap 28 of 43, and while he rejoined in fifth, he quickly lost three praces on cold tyres, and could only re-pass Mattias Ekstrom afterwards.
Maro Engel claimed his best finish since his return to DTM in ninth, as Jamie Green made it to the top 10 from last on the grid.
Green was 12th in the qualifying, but was disqualified for using his teammate Rene Rast's tyres.
The top non-scoring positions were held by four BMWs in the order of Timo Glock, Augusto Farfus, Marco Wittmann and Bruno Spengler, as the marque was only represented by Martin in the top 10.
Glock was fifth when he pitted, but ran wide right after his pitstop, losing several positions.
Loic Duval was 15th, hindered by a five-second time penalty for a jump start, as the last two drivers were the colliding Paul di Resta and Tom Blomqvist. The former was penalised for sending the latter into a spin.
Nico Muller was the only retirement of the race, as his race was cut short by brake issues.
Race 1 results
ClaDriverCarTime/Gap 1 
Lucas Auer Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 56'37.503 2 
Robert Wickens Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 3.613 3 
René Rast Audi RS5 DTM 12.581 4 
Maxime Martin BMW M4 DTM 17.660 5 Mike Rockenfeller Audi RS5 DTM 17.810 6 
Gary Paffett Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 20.253 7 
Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 21.366 8 
Mattias Ekström Audi RS5 DTM 22.319 9 Maro Engel Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 26.361 10 Jamie Green Audi RS5 DTM 29.960 11 Timo Glock BMW M4 DTM 34.423 12 
Augusto Farfus BMW M4 DTM 35.163 13 Marco Wittmann BMW M4 DTM 36.280 14 Bruno Spengler BMW M4 DTM 38.467 15 
Loic Duval Audi RS5 DTM 39.577 16 Paul di Resta Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 48.526 17 Tom Blomqvist BMW M4 DTM 1'01.476 
Nico Müller Audi RS5 DTM 9 laps
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