Canadian Mercedes-Benz driver Robert Wickens went wire-to-wire to the DTM win at the Norisring.
By: DTM Presse
June 29, 2014
Nuremberg, Germany - With his DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé, Robert Wickens has scored a dominant lights-to-flag victory at Norisring. The Canadian crossed the finish line with a comfortable margin of 23.9 seconds from Audi driver Jamie green. Mattias Ekström (Audi) completed the podium in third place. Behind Edoardo Mortara, Adrien Tambay (both Audi) and Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes-Benz), points' leader Marco Wittmann finished seventh in the best-placed BMW M4 DTM. +++ A full press release with quotes from the successful drivers will follow shortly.
The race in detail
Information Due to the rain, the race will be started behind the safety car with a minimum of 3 laps to be completed behind the safety car.
Start The cars set off behind the safety car. The race is set for 83 laps and is declared a wet race, so that the use of rain tyres is permitted and there is no pit window for the mandatory pit stop.
Lap 1 Vitaly Petrov spins coming out of the Dutzendteich hairpin.
Lap 3 Di Resta collides with Green at Dutzendteich, spins.
Lap 4 Green flags, racing conditions apply.
Lap 6 Spengler and Farfus tangle. Juncadella tangles with Molina at Schöller-S, Jiuncadella spins. Farfus, Tomczyk, Molina, Félix da Costa into the pits. Green under investigation.
Lap 7 Wickens, Green, Paffett, Wehrlein, Vietoris, Wittmann, Tambay, Martin, Glock and Di Resta is the current race order in the top ten. Hand collides with Müller, the Swiss spins at Dutzendteich. Müller, Petrov into the pits.
Lap 8 Tambay and Martin overtake Wittmann, who is now eighth.
Lap 10 Martin and Tambay battle for sixth, Martin gets past. Di Resta into the pits.
Lap 16 Green gets a five seconds' pit stop penalty for the collision with Di Resta on lap three.
Lap 21 Wickens is leading with a 2.1 seconds' margin from Green, then Paffett, Wehrlein, Vietoris, Martin, Tambay, Wittmann, Ekström and Hand. Petrov and Müller tangle at Grundig hairpin, both continue.
Lap 22 Rockenfeller misses his braking point for Grundig and runs wide. Petrov under investigation.
Lap 26 Drive-through penalties for Vitaly Petrov and Nico Müller due to not respecting blue flags.
Lap 33 Vietoris overtakes Paffett for fourth in the Dutzendteich hairpin.
Lap 34 Paffett into the pits.
Lap 38 Vietoris increases the pressure on Wehrlein, who is third. Glock spins at Grundig and loses his twelfth place.
Lap 39 Vietoris has overtaken Wehrlein and is now third.
Lap 41 Ekström keeps Martin under pressure in the battle for fifth and gets past on the main straight. Mortara overtakes Spengler for tenth.
Lap 45 Wickens has extended his margin to 8.8 seconds. Tambay overtakes Martin under braking for Grundig and is now sixth.
Lap 47 Martin into the pits.
Lap 50 Mortara overtakes Hand for seventh at Grundig. Spengler into the pits.
Lap 52 Rockenfeller, Farfus into the pits.
Lap 53 Wittmann, Scheider, Juncadella, Glock, Tomczyk, Molina into the pits.
Lap 54 Green, Wehrlein, Tambay, Hand, Petrov into the pits.
Lap 55 Vietoris, Ekström into the pits. Glock under investigation because of unsafe release.
Lap 56 Mortara, Di Resta into the pits. Glock gets a drive-through penalty for the unsafe release, he comes in at the end of the lap.
Lap 57 Wickens into the pits.
Lap 58 Tomczyk turns Paffett round at Grundig. Paffett, Félix da Costa, Tomczyk into the pits - Tomczyk retires.
Lap 60 Wickens is leading from Vietoris, Green, Ekström, Wehrlein, Tambay, Mortara, Hand, Rockenfeller, Wittmann.
Lap 67 Battle for eighth with Hand, Rockenfeller, Wittmann and Scheider.
Lap 69 Tambay and Wehrlein collide at Grundig, Wehrlein spins. The incident is being investigated by the stewards.
Lap 72 Molina into the pits, retires. DRS is now enabled.
Lap 74 Vietoris retires from second place. Right rear wheel has come loose. His car is stuck at Dutzendteich.
Lap 78 Rockenfeller attacks Hand for eighth. Vietoris has now made it into the pits. Félix da Costa is under investigation.
Lap 82 Tambay and Wehrlein battle for fifth. Final lap. Robert Wickens wins from Green, Ekström, Mortara, Tambay, Wehrlein, Wittmann, Hand, Rockenfeller and Scheider.
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