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Hungaroring DTM: Rast takes points lead with maiden win

Rene Rast celebrated his maiden victory in DTM in the second Hungaroring race and took the championship lead by one point.

René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM

René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM

Alexander Trienitz

Polesitter René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM with the team
Polesitter René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM
René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM
Tom Blomqvist, BMW Team RBM, BMW M4 DTM, spins
René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM
René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM
Podium: third place René Rast, Audi Sport Team Rosberg, Audi RS 5 DTM

Having taken his second straight pole earlier on Sunday, Rast had a superb start to lead the race.

BMW's Marco Wittmann, on the other hand, had a sluggish getaway from second, allowing Audi driver Nico Muller to get past.

The trio was initially followed by Mattias Ekstrom, but the Swede pitted on Lap 3, using a similar strategy he had used at Lausitzring where he pitted on the first lap and finished second from eighth on the grid in the Sunday race.

With the top three all waiting to change their tyres until more than five laps later, Ekstrom emerged ahead when all the pitstops panned out.

Moreover, Muller and Wittmann also fell behind BMW's Maxime Martin, the Belgian driver making his mandatory stop at the end of the opening lap, and running third despite having started the race from last place.

Rast spent most of the race shadowing Ekstrom, and he finally made a move with just a handful of minutes to go, going past his Audi stablemate at the first turn.

He couldn't increase the gap afterwards but it was Rast crossing the finish line first, closely followed by Ekstrom, with Martin keeping Muller at bay and denying Audi a 1-2-3.

Jamie Green made two great moves on Paul di Resta and Wittmann for fifth, as the latter's car failed when running sixth with two laps to go.

That promoted the lead Mercedes of Di Resta into sixth, the Scotsman followed by Timo Glock and Robert Wickens.

The top 10 was completed by Gary Paffett and Mike Rockenfeller, the latter losing his fifth place on the grid after having to start from the pitlane, but benefitting from a first-lap pitstop.

Rockenfeller put Paffett under pressure in the end, but his attempt to overtake resulted in him forcing the Briton off track, for which he is under investigation.

Apart from Wittmann, Lucas Auer was the only other driver not to finish the race, the erstwhile points leader dropping out of contention with a poor stop and then retiring in the pits.

Race results:

Pos.DriverCarTime/Gap
1 germany René Rast  Audi RS5 DTM 58'01.592
2 sweden Mattias Ekström  Audi RS5 DTM 1.041
3 belgium Maxime Martin  BMW M4 DTM 1.506
4 switzerland Nico Müller  Audi RS5 DTM 1.861
5 united_kingdom Jamie Green  Audi RS5 DTM 5.772
6 united_kingdom Paul di Resta  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 7.884
7 germany Timo Glock  BMW M4 DTM 8.694
8 canada Robert Wickens  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 11.999
9 united_kingdom Gary Paffett  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 12.653
10 germany Mike Rockenfeller  Audi RS5 DTM 13.159
11 italy Edoardo Mortara  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 13.630
12 brazil Augusto Farfus  BMW M4 DTM 15.087
13 united_kingdom Tom Blomqvist  BMW M4 DTM 16.289
14 canada Bruno Spengler  BMW M4 DTM 17.583
15 germany Maro Engel  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 19.828
16 france Loic Duval  Audi RS5 DTM 38.535
17 germany Marco Wittmann  BMW M4 DTM 2 laps
Ret  austria Lucas Auer  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 12 laps
 

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