Porsche's Thomas Preining received a 10-second penalty for a clash with Audi rival Nico Muller, only for DTM to change its mind three hours after the race. Here's why the penalty was withdrawn, and how it could impact the title battle:
Team Bernhard recruit Preining engaged in a race-long battle with Muller’s Audi in Saturday’s opening contest in Austria, the duo involved in three separate clashes at the Turn 3 right-hander.
The Austrian driver was absolutely livid after the race, telling Motorsport.com’s sister title Motorsport-Total.com that “if there is a penalty for this, the DTM can no longer be helped”, before adding “the amount of the penalty is a joke anyway.” . If he does end up clinching the championship in Porsche’s maiden season in the DTM, the nine-point swing in the first Red Bull Ring race will be seen as one of the deciding moments in the title fight.So just why did the DTM think Preining should have been penalised for his clash with Muller, only to later conclude that no driver was wholly responsible for the incident?
Admitting that it was he who approached the stewards to demand a review, Elkins explained how the decision was reversed more than three hours after the race had finished at around 2:30pm local time.Elkins told reporters including Motorsport-Total.com“I'm in race control [where] I'm very, very busy. We are looking at all kinds of different things. I can look at an incident but I can only look from a couple of different angles.
“They may not always like the first decision or the decision was different. But we are using the process that is in place. “We gotta get our memory cards out of the cars, we gotta pull data from the car and gather that all together.
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