MORTARA WINS SATURDAY RACE

The battle for the title in the 2016 DTM season remains exciting: with a dominant victory in the 15th race of the season, Edoardo Mortara kept all his chances alive behind the wheel of his Audi RS 5 DTM and considerably reduced the gap to points’ leader Marco Wittmann. After 26 laps of the Hungaroring, Mortara crossed the finish line as the race winner from his fellow Audi drivers Jamie Green and Miguel Molina. In the following positions, Rockenfeller, Müller and Tambay completed the sextuple victory for Audi. “Of course, we are super happy with this result and I hope to be able to win the race on Sunday as well,” Mortara said. In Hungary, he scored his fourth win of the season and the seventh race victory of his DTM career. Marco Wittmann finished seventh with his BMW M4 DTM from the best-placed Mercedes-AMG driver, Felix Rosenqvist in eighth. Roberto Wickens, who had started the race from 17th place on the grid, was classified tenth behind Timo Scheider.

After 15 of this season’s 18 races, Marco Wittmann is leading the drivers’ standings with 176 points. Mortara has reduced the gap to the BMW driver, he is now only 14 points down with 162 points in second place. Jamie Green (137 points) has moved up to third place in the drivers’ standings after his second-place finish in the race. Robert Wickens is fourth with 121 points. The second DTM race of this weekend will get underway on Sunday at 15.10 hrs. Prior to that, the starting grid positions for the 16th race will be determined in qualifying from 12.50 hrs.