Mattias Ekström was victorious in the ninth season round of the DTM at Zandvoort in The Netherlands and thus secured the first victory for Audi this season. In a thrilling closing stage of the race, the 36-year-old worked his way up through the field in an impressive way and claimed the lead. The two times’ champion finished ahead of the newly-crowned champion Marco Wittmann and Martin Tomczyk (both BMW), who were second and third respectively. “In the DTM, racing is always extremely hard and today was no exception. After all the bad luck of the past months, now, things were running perfectly for us at last. I enjoyed every lap of this race,” said a delighted Ekström after scoring his fourth DTM career win at Zandvoort.
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
1 | Mattias Ekstrom | Abt | Audi | 1h16m35.761s |
2 | Marco Wittmann | RMG | BMW | 7.414s |
3 | Martin Tomczyk | Schnitzer | BMW | 11.144s |
4 | Edoardo Mortara | Abt | Audi | 12.234s |
5 | Christian Vietoris | HWA | Mercedes | 12.730s |
6 | Maxime Martin | RMG | BMW | 14.260s |
7 | Pascal Wehrlein | HWA | Mercedes | 15.128s |
8 | Daniel Juncadella | Mucke | Mercedes | 15.729s |
9 | Robert Wickens | HWA | Mercedes | 16.182s |
10 | Timo Scheider | Phoenix | Audi | 16.792s |
11 | Joey Hand | RBM | BMW | 20.736s |
12 | Vitaly Petrov | Mucke | Mercedes | 21.518s |
13 | Timo Glock | MTEK | BMW | 23.799s |
14 | Antonio Felix da Costa | MTEK | BMW | 24.233s |
15 | Jamie Green | Rosberg | Audi | 25.008s |
16 | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix | Audi | 36.746s |
17 | Bruno Spengler | Schnitzer | BMW | 45.591s |
18 | Miguel Molina | Abt | Audi | 1 Lap |
19 | Gary Paffett | HWA | Mercedes | 9 Laps |
– | Nico Muller | Rosberg | Audi | Retirement |
– | Augusto Farfus Jr. | RBM | BMW | Retirement |
– | Paul Di Resta | HWA | Mercedes | Retirement |
– | Adrien Tambay | Abt | Audi | Retirement |