Jamie Green dominates, as BMW takes constructors’ crown

Britain’s Jamie Green dominated the final Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) race at the Hockenheimring this afternoon, claiming second place in the drivers’s standings behind new champion Pascal Wehrlein, who finished 20th, but put on a show for the crowd.

The Briton took the lead from pole sitter Gary Paffett in the early stages, and was dominant until the fireworks at the finish line signalled the end of the year’s racing. Paffett would drop back down the order and end up ninth at the finish.

Mattias Ekström and Edoardo Mortara completed a clean sweep of the podium for Audi Sport, with Paul Di Resta finishing fourth as the best placed Mercedes. Penultimate race winner Timo Scheider made it four Audis in the top five, taking fifth, ending his season in a positive way.

BMW Motorsport secured the manufacturers’ crown by just seven points from Audi Sport,  as the Munich brand had Maxime Martin, António Félix da Costa, Bruno Spengler and Martin Tomczyk finished sixth, seventh, eighth and tenth respectively.

Notable retirements were Marco Wittmann, who lost his bonnet on lap 8, along with Christian Vietoris and Adrien Tambay, who both retired after an incident involving Miguel Molina, who collided with Vietoris and Tambay being an innocent victim.

Molina would receive a drive-through, but would finish 11th ahead of Daniel Juncadella. Maximillian Götz was the best of the rookies in the final race of the year in 13th, as Tom Blomqvist and Lucas Auer would finish 17th and 19th.

Blomqvist would end up best rookie of the year, despite being issued a drive-through penalty for pushing Robert Wickens off track. Nico Müller would also receive the same penalty for an unsafe release into the path of Martin Tomczyk, with the Swiss driver ending up 16th.

The DTM ends for another year, with excitement, action and controversy, in what has been one of the best seasons in the series history. The off-season may be long, but it will be worth the wait to see what happens in 2016.

Race result

POS	NO	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME/GAP	BEST	GD
1	53	Jamie GREEN		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	39	39 LAPS	1:34.380	2
2	5	Mattias EKSTRÖM		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	39	1.351	1:34.329	3
3	48	Edoardo MORTARA		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	39	18.914	1:34.086	13
4	3	Paul di RESTA		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	28.694	1:34.774	11
5	10	Timo SCHEIDER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	39	30.581	1:34.914	8
6	36	Maxime MARTIN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	39	38.003	1:34.571	5
7	13	António Félix da COSTA		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	39	39.19	1:34.832	19
8	7	Bruno SPENGLER		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	39	39.761	1:34.818	15
9	2	Gary PAFFETT		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	40.197	1:34.986	1
10	77	Martin TOMCZYK		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	39	47.682	1:34.756	23
11	17	Miguel MOLINA		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	39	49.554	1:34.976	4
12	16	Timo GLOCK		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	39	54.04	1:35.194	21
13	12	Daniel JUNCADELLA		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	55.955	1:35.084	18
14	84	Maximilian GÖTZ		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	+01:00.941	1:35.301	9
15	18	Augusto FARFUS		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	39	+01:04.344	1:35.459	10
16	99	Mike ROCKENFELLER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	39	+01:07.538	1:35.242	14
17	51	Nico MÜLLER		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	39	+01:15.417	1:35.128	7
18	31	Tom BLOMQVIST		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	39	+01:19.406	1:35.182	12
19	6	Robert WICKENS		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	+01:21.170	1:35.311	20
20	22	Lucas AUER		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	+01:23.359	1:35.278	22
21	94	Pascal WEHRLEIN		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	39	+01:31.948	1:35.484	17
R	8	Christian VIETORIS		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	15	24 LAPS	1:35.942	24
R	27	Adrien TAMBAY		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	15	24 LAPS	1:34.888	6
R	1	Marco WITTMANN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	7	32 LAPS	1:35.626	16

Complete race results