Spielberg DTM: Glock dominates Race 2, Mercedes draws a blank

Off the line, front row starters Green and Felix da Costa appeared to get a marginally better getaway than their rivals - but, as Felix da Costa challenged Green into Turn 1 and ran wide over the kerbs, he lost speed, falling prey to Glock at Remus.

The ex-Formula 1 driver then reeled in Green in no time and pulled off another Turn 2 pass on the second lap, easing past the Briton with DRS.

Green would not get an immediate chance to respond as his Audi stablemate Nico Muller was punted off by Robert Wickens at Wurth Kurve, coming to a halt in the barriers and bringing out a safety car.

That proved beneficial for Glock, the BMW driver nailing the restart to immediately pull away from Green as the Briton again was hassled by Felix da Costa.

And again, it did not pan out for the Portuguese, with Green holding off Felix da Costa into Rauch and allowing Edoardo Mortara, Augusto Farfus and Maxime Martin to pass the Portuguese driver through the next few corners.

By that point, the gap between Glock and Green was up to two seconds, but the Briton managed to prevent the lead from growing further before the mandatory pitstops begun.

Glock was among the first takers, pitting on Lap 15 to emerge in clear air - and while Green ramped up the pace for this next few laps, his decision to pit later, on Lap 19, did not alter the status quo.

With the gap between the duo slowly but surely increasing over the next few laps, Lap 25 saw the introduction of the slow zone in sector two after a collision between two other frontrunners.

Felix da Costa, having climbed back up the order by stopping early, had passed Mortara out of Schlosshold and tried to close the door on the Italian into Rauch - which resulted in Mortara punting the Portuguese off and himself getting beached in the gravel.

As such, the position was inherited by Farfus - only for Mattias Ekstrom to then emerge ahead of the Brazilian, in third place, by stopping on Lap 28.

With the Swede on fresher tyres, Green eventually surrendered the spot without a fight to allow his fellow Audi driver a shot at Glock.

However, Ekstrom could only get the gap down to 2.2s at the chequered flag.

Green took third, well ahead of BMW quartet Farfus, Martin, Tom Blomqvist and Marco Wittmann, with Mike Rockenfeller, Bruno Spengler and Timo Scheider making up the top 10.

It was another miserable day for Mercedes, which became the first DTM manufacturer in 2016 to take no points out of a race.

Gary Paffett, admittedly, came close, challenging Scheider for P10 in the final stages, but was forced out wide and dropped down the order.

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time/Gap
1	Timo Glock	BMW	1:01:30.006
2	Mattias Ekstrom	Audi	2.215
3	Jamie Green	Audi	6.014
4	Augusto Farfus	BMW	10.399
5	Maxime Martin	BMW	11.012
6	Tom Blomqvist	BMW	11.643
7	Marco Wittmann	BMW	12.242
8	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi	14.301
9	Bruno Spengler	BMW	16.607
10	Timo Scheider	Audi	20.127
11	Adrien Tambay	Audi	20.937
12	Dani Juncadella	Mercedes	21.331
13	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	21.858
14	Miguel Molina	Audi	22.178
15	Paul di Resta	Mercedes	22.537
16	Lucas Auer	Mercedes	23.344
17	Christian Vietoris	Mercedes	23.684
18	Esteban Ocon	Mercedes	25.286
19	Martin Tomczyk	BMW	26.232
20	Robert Wickens	Mercedes	26.565
21	Antonio Felix da Costa	BMW	32.223
22	Maximilian Gotz	Mercedes	33.139
Ret	Edoardo Mortara	Audi
Ret	Nico Muller	Audi