Emil Frey Ferrari driver Jack Aitken has taken a commanding victory within the DTM’s first Nurburgring race to develop into the 2025 championship’s new chief.
Aitken transformed pole into the lead firstly of the race, as an incident between Rene Rast and Mirko Bortolotti induced the latter’s retirement, whereas the previous needed to change his entrance tyres. Chaos ensued within the following corners with Maro Engel and Thierry Vermeulen colliding; the Dutchman was spun round and dropped to the again of the sector, and Engel obtained three penalty laps.
One other incident concerned Morris Schuring and his team-mate Ayhancan Guven on lap 2, with Guven spinning out of the race – which was red-flagged because of particles, in addition to coolant from Bortolotti’s automotive.
Aitken saved the lead from Luca Engstler, Ben Green and Lucas Auer because the race restarted behind the protection automotive. A small mistake from Engstler allowed Inexperienced by, with the 2 Emil Frey Ferrari drivers making a two-second hole on the entrance.
Additionally they waited the longest for pitstops, and Inexperienced was overcut by Ricardo Feller, who was eleventh on the grid, and Marco Wittmann. Feller even attacked Aitken; he overtook the Briton across the outdoors, made a mistake, then handed him once more. In the meantime, Inexperienced forcefully took third place away from Wittmann, which earned him a warning.
Ricardo Feller, Land Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3
Photograph by: Alexander Trienitz
Feller struggled with oversteer endured late-race strain from each Aitken and Inexperienced, who simply handed him, in addition to Wittmann and Jordan Pepper, whose battle saved the Swiss driver’s podium end; Pepper prevailed for fourth.
“It was a really gratifying battle, one I actually didn’t count on,” Aitken advised ran.de when requested about his duel with Feller. “We got here out of the pits, had a cease that was okay – not one of the best – after which I noticed Ricci in my mirrors. At that second I assumed: ‘Oh man, that is going to be actually powerful’. We had a terrific combat.”
Auer got here sixth forward of Rast, Engstler, Ben Doerr and Thomas Preining.
Aitken now leads the DTM standings with a 10-point benefit over Auer, with Pepper in third.
The second race of the Nurburgring weekend will begin at 1:30pm native time on Sunday.
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