Norisring DTM: Mortara wins as Ekstrom crashes into leading Mercs
Edoardo Mortara became the first repeat winner of the 2016 DTM season after securing the win in Race 1 at Norisring, following contact among the early race leaders.
Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
Christian Vietoris, starting from pole, had a good launch off the line and took the race lead into Turn 1, closely followed by a group of drivers that was initially headed by Mattias Ekstrom.
However, the Swede ended up losing a spot when he made a small mistake at Turn 1 and ran wide just enough to allow Robert Wickens through.
Wickens did not challenge for the lead for the rest of the race's first half before an incident was triggered that removed the top three out of contention.
Ekstrom, trying to pass Wickens into Turn 1, touched the Canadian and then went straight on into Vietoris, sending the German into a spin and taking both himself and Wickens out of the race.
The lead was inherited by fourth-placed Edoardo Mortara, who held off Jamie Green and Paul di Resta after the safety car restart.
The British duo kept up with Mortara throughout the rest of the race with Green putting increasing pressure on his stablemate during the final minutes.
However, Mortara did not put a foot wrong and took the chequered flag first.
Marco Wittmann ended up as the lead BMW in fourth after an overtake on Bruno Spengler, as Maxime Martin took sixth.
Both the Belgian and Adrien Tambay passed Vietoris, the early race leader having to settle for eighth.
The Mercedes of Maximilian Gotz and BMW of Antonio Felix da Costa completed the top 10.
Race results
Pos. | Driver | Car | Time/Gap |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Edoardo Mortara | Audi RS5 DTM | 41'09.983 |
2 | Jamie Green | Audi RS5 DTM | 0.531 |
3 | Paul di Resta | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 0.903 |
4 | Marco Wittmann | BMW M4 DTM | 4.135 |
5 | Bruno Spengler | BMW M4 DTM | 6.731 |
6 | Maxime Martin | BMW M4 DTM | 9.951 |
7 | Adrien Tambay | Audi RS5 DTM | 10.875 |
8 | Maximilian Götz | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 13.501 |
9 | Antonio Felix da Costa | BMW M4 DTM | 15.337 |
10 | Christian Vietoris | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 15.477 |
11 | Augusto Farfus | BMW M4 DTM | 16.939 |
12 | Martin Tomczyk | BMW M4 DTM | 17.699 |
13 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 17.985 |
14 | Timo Glock | BMW M4 DTM | 18.674 |
15 | Gary Paffett | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 19.208 |
16 | Tom Blomqvist | BMW M4 DTM | 19.571 |
17 | Timo Scheider | Audi RS5 DTM | 20.202 |
18 | Miguel Molina | Audi RS5 DTM | 20.799 |
19 | Mike Rockenfeller | Audi RS5 DTM | 21.350 |
20 | Daniel Juncadella | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 21.562 |
21 | Nico Müller | Audi RS5 DTM | 22.171 |
Esteban Ocon | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | ||
Mattias Ekström | Audi RS5 DTM | ||
Robert Wickens | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM |
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