Porsche driver Thomas Preining defeated the Audis of Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller to win Sunday’s DTM race at the Lausitzring.
Manthey EMA’s Preining fell behind both van de Linde and Feller at one stage, but quickly repassed the Abt Audi duo to claim his first win of the 2024 season and move up to second in the standings. At the start of the race, the reigning champion pulled away cleanly from pole position to hold the lead over Feller, but couldn’t shake off the Swiss driver and his team-mate van der Linde, who had got the jump on the SSR Performance Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti.
Van der Linde, despite having 20kg of success ballast after his victory on Saturday, kept the pressure up on Preining till the end, but the factory Porsche driver was relatively untroubled as he took the chequered flag with a winning margin of 1.4s. Feller ended up a further 1.5s back, while Bortolotti ended up fourth in the sole-surviving SSR Lamborghini after team-mate Nicki Thiim was forced to retire early with a brake issue.
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