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Edoardo Mortara secures dominant race one victory in Spielberg

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The ninth race of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) at the Red Bull Ring saw Audi Sport Team Abt’s Edoardo Mortara take his first win in the series since Zandvoort 2012.

The Franco-Italian led the race to the finish after Team Rosberg’s Jamie Green retired on the second lap of the race, due to a gearbox selection issue.

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Mortara finished 1.792 seconds ahead of new points leader Pascal Wehrlein, who is the youngest to lead the standings in the series’ history.

“When I’m in front I can control the race,” explained the Audi driver. “My car was simply perfect today. I’m proud of this success and overjoyed. I’m hoping for this to continue to tomorrow.”

Scotland’s Paul di Resta rounded out the podium, followed by Christian Vietoris, who made it three Mercedes-Benz drivers in the top four.

Mattias Ekström made it into the top five, following on from a herculean battle between himself and lead BMW driver, Augusto Farfus. The two-time champion made his move in the infield on the final lap to keep himself within eight points of Wehrlein.

Gary Paffett took another welcome points finish in seventh, ahead of Mike Rockenfeller, Marco Wittmann and Adrien Tambay, who secured the last points finish of the afternoon.

Rockenfeller, Wittmann and Tambay were embroiled in a titanic battle, with the trio swapping positions are varying points out on track.

Daniel Juncadella had a solid finish in 11th place, ahead of Nico Müller, who potentially could have secured points this afternoon.

Other retirements this afternoon were Mercedes’ Robert Wickens and BMW’s Martin Tomczyk, with both drivers having to retire their cars into the garage following technical issues.

Wherein now leads the standings on 94 points, with Ekström a further eight points behind. Mortara now moves into third ahead of Jamie Green, which sees three Audi drivers in the top four overall.

Sunday’s action gets underway at 1100 CEST (1000 BST) with the morning warm-up.

Race result

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME/GAP BEST GD
1 48 Edoardo MORTARA Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 29 41:41.536 1:25.632 1
2 94 Pascal WEHRLEIN gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 1.792 1:25.758 3
3 3 Paul di RESTA SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 11.2 1:26.187 4
4 8 Christian VIETORIS gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 17.958 1:26.270 6
5 5 Mattias EKSTRÖM Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 29 19.3 1:26.175 9
6 18 Augusto FARFUS BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 29 19.902 1:26.264 5
7 2 Gary PAFFETT EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 23.272 1:26.273 8
8 99 Mike ROCKENFELLER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 29 23.534 1:26.152 10
9 1 Marco WITTMANN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 29 29.879 1:26.363 12
10 27 Adrien TAMBAY Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 29 30.368 1:26.128 11
11 12 Daniel JUNCADELLA PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 31.966 1:26.450 17
12 51 Nico MÜLLER Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 29 37.797 1:26.433 14
13 13 António Félix da COSTA BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 29 38.532 1:26.544 13
14 36 Maxime MARTIN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 29 39.35 1:26.661 19
15 7 Bruno SPENGLER BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 29 39.925 1:26.534 15
16 10 Timo SCHEIDER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 29 40.422 1:26.579 16
17 31 Tom BLOMQVIST BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 29 45.267 1:26.592 21
18 17 Miguel MOLINA Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 29 45.684 1:26.394 20
19 16 Timo GLOCK BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 29 46.8 1:26.631 23
20 84 Maximilian GÖTZ PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 47.375 1:26.659 22
21 22 Lucas AUER EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 49.453 1:26.711 24
R 77 Martin TOMCZYK BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 10 19L 1:27.501 18
R 6 Robert WICKENS SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 7 22L 1:28.120 7
R 53 Jamie GREEN Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 3 26L 1:30.809 2

Complete race results

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