2014 Hungaroring Race

2014 Hungaroring Race
The Hungaroring hosted its maiden DTM race in 2014.
Race Information
Date	1 June 2014
No.	172
Event	DTM Budapest 2014
Location	Hungaroring Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary
Format	Championship Race
Lap length	4.381 km (2.722 mi)
Distance	41 laps / 179.621 km (111.602 mi)
Qualifying Result
Pole Sitter	Marco Wittmann
Team	BMW Team RMG
Time	1:36.518
Fastest Lap
Driver	Nico Müller
Team	Audi Sport Team Rosberg
Time	1:37.556 on lap 26
Race Result
First	Second	Third
Marco Wittmann	Miguel Molina	Bruno Spengler
Winner Team	BMW Team RMG
Time	1:08:35.291
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The 2014 Hungaroring Race, otherwise known as DTM Budapest 2014, was the third race of the 2014 DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship, staged at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary on 1 June 2014. The race, which was the first DTM race to be staged at the Hungaroring since the Series reformed in 2000, would see Marco Wittmann claim victory for the second time in 2014.

Qualifying had seen Wittmann secure his second straight pole position, edging out stablemate Timo Glock as BMW dominated the top five. Miguel Molina was the lone interloper in the top five for Audi, while Pascal Wehrlein was the best of the Mercedes drivers in sixteenth.

The start of the race saw Wittmann catapult himself into an early lead, with Glock slipping into second behind the sister car. António Félix da Costa was next up in third, while Bruno Spengler stormed his way up to fourth from ninth on the grid to leave four BMWs at the head of the field.

Elsewhere, Gary Paffett was an early casualty after heavy contact from Joey Hand, after the American racer had received a whack from Christian Vietoris. Otherwise, the field would quickly settled down after Molina and Edoardo Mortara elbowed their way past Spengler, while Robert Wickens carved his way up into the top ten from seventeenth.

Wittmann would establish a healthy lead before the pit-window opened on lap seventeen, as fights further down the field drew attention. Indeed, Spengler would complete a slow tumble down the field, Molina and Mortara would pass da Costa, while Timo Scheider suffered a suspension failure after a bruising battle with Martin Tomczyk.

da Costa was the first of the leaders to stop when the pits opened, with the rest of the field trickling in over the following laps. The only incident of note came when Augusto Farfus caught his pitcrew out by coming in before they were ready, costing him a lot of time.

After the stops Wittmann led the charge, while Molina had jumped into second ahead of Glock, who was to remove himself from contention after a bruising fight with Mortara left both cars with damage. Spengler, meanwhile, would begin to charge back up the order on his softer compound tyres, while Wickens battled to get into the top ten.

With that the race was run, with Wittmann cruising through the closing stages to claim victory, while Molina claimed a comfortable second. Spengler was next up in third after his late crusade, while Mortara fended off a late assault from Adrien Tambay and Maxime Martin to secure fourth. Jamie Green was next up ahead of da Costa, while Mattias Ekström and Mike Rockenfeller completed the scorers.

Background

Mike Rockenfeller came to Hungary with the lead of the Championship, ahead of the two men who won their maiden DTM races in Hockenheim and Oschersleben. Behind Christian Vietoris, who took a shock victory for Mercedes last time out, and Wittmann was Mattias Ekström, with Adrien Tambay completing the top five.

Audi Team Phoenix led the way in the Teams' Championship with 38 points, one ahead of OT Mercedes AMG after Oschersleben. BMW Team RMG were the best placed on the BMW backed teams, behind the two Abt Audi teams of Audi Team Abt and Audi Team Abt Sportsline. Three teams had failed to pick up a single point all season, with Audi Team Rosberg the most significant of those yet to score.

Audi had snatched the lead of the Manufacturers' Championship in Oschersleben, taking over from BMW. Mercedes-Benz took their first points of the season last time out, although trailed BMW by over 20 points.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2014 Hungaroring Race is displayed below:

2014 Hungaroring Race Entry List
No.	Name	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine
1	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
2	Timo Scheider	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
3	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
4	Joey Hand	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
5	Christian Vietoris	Original-Teile Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	AMG C-Coupé DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
6	Paul di Resta	Original-Teile Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	AMG C-Coupé DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
7	Mattias Ekström	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
8	Miguel Molina	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
9	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
10	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
11	Gary Paffett	Thomas Sabo/Free Man's Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	AMG C-Coupé DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
12	Robert Wickens	Thomas Sabo/Free Man's Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	AMG C-Coupé DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
15	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
16	Adrien Tambay	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
17	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
18	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team MTEK	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
19	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	Mercedes C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
20	Vitaly Petrov	Petronas Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	Mercedes C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
21	Jamie Green	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
22	Nico Müller	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM 14	Audi 4.0l V8
23	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
24	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
25	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix Mercedes AMG	Mercedes	AMG C-Coupé DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
Source:

Qualifying

A dry Hungaroring greeted the DTM paddock on Saturday, in what was the first competitive session for the DTM in Hungary since 1988. The three part qualifying format was to be used as usual, with Q1 lasting thirteen minutes, Q2 for eleven, and the pole position shootout lasting nine.

Q1

Marco Wittmann was the class of the field throughout qualifying, a fact demonstrated immediately in Q1, as he set the only time under 1:37.000 in the session. Two seconds covered the rest of the field, with half of that figure covering the eighteen drivers that made it through. Of note was the fact that five of Mercedes seven entries fell in the first session, although Pascal Wehrlein and Robert Wickens survived.

Out went their two team leading HWA Team cars of Gary Paffett and Paul di Resta, the Mücke Motorsport duo of Daniel Juncadella and Vitaly Petrov, and winner last time out, Christian Vietoris.

Q2

Wittmann was, once again, the class of the field in Q2, although he was not alone in the 1:36.000s as he had been in Q1. He was joined by team mate Maxime Martin, Augusto Farfus, António Félix da Costa and Timo Glock at the top of the standings, as BMW dominated the second part of qualifying. Joining that quintet of Munich machinery in the pole position shootout were a trio of Audi's, led by Miguel Molina.

Adrien Tambay and Nico Müller were the others to book their places in Q3, as all five of the seven Champions left in qualifying were eliminated. Meanwhile, the top placed Mercedes was to be found in sixteenth, with Wehrlein leading a poor Merc performance.

Q3

Once again, making it a hatrick in qualifying, Wittmann claimed pole position with the fastest time in Q3, beating team mate Martin, who had been top of the session standings since it had started, on his last lap. Martin, for his part, dropped to fourth, as Glock made it a BMW 1-2 for the race, with Molina taking third (and, for a change, was allowed to start there). Rookie da Costa again stood out in fifth, ahead of stable mate Farfus, and the final two Audis in Tambay and Muller.

The qualifying result stood after scrutineering, the first time this had happened in 2014.

Post-Qualifying

The final qualifying result for the 2014 Hungaroring Race are outlined below:

2014 Hungaroring Race Qualifying Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team		Q1			Q2			Q3		Grid
					Pos.	Time		Pos.	Time		Pos.	Time
1st	23	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG		1st	1:36.878		1st	1:36.646		1st	1:36.518	1
2nd	17	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK		5th	1:37.138		3rd	1:36.990		2nd	1:36.731	2
3rd	8	Miguel Molina	Audi Team Abt Sportsline		3rd	1:37.094		5th	1:37.120		3rd	1:36.757	3
4th	24	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG		2nd	1:37.079		4th	1:36.996		4th	1:36.777	4
5th	18	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team MTEK		8th	1:37.423		2nd	1:36.755		5th	1:36.896	5
6th	3	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM		4th	1:37.137		6th	1:37.189		6th	1:37.061	6
7th	16	Adrien Tambay	Audi Team Abt		6th	1:37.392		8th	1:37.227		7th	1:37.134	7
8th	22	Nico Müller	Audi Team Rosberg		10th	1:37.458		7th	1:37.204		8th	1:37.174	8
9th	9	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team Schnitzer		9th	1:37.440		9th	1:37.257				9
10th	21	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg		13th	1:37.684		10th	1:37.259				10
11th	7	Mattias Ekström	Audi Team Abt Sportsline		11th	1:37.496		11th	1:37.301				11
12th	15	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Team Abt		16th	1:37.886		12th	1:37.352				12
13th	1	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix		14th	1:37.756		13th	1:37.611				13
14th	22	Joey Hand	BMW Team RBM		7th	1:37.403		14th	1:37.644				14
15th	2	Timo Scheider	Audi Team Phoenix		12th	1:37.680		15th	1:37.766				15
16th	25	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix Mercedes AMG		18th	1:38.009		16th	1:37.846				16
17th	12	Robert Wickens	TS/FM Mercedes AMG		15th	1:37.764		17th	1:37.857				17
18th	10	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer		17th	1:37.979		18th	1:37.945				18
19th	6	Paul di Resta	OT Mercedes AMG		19th	1:38.133							19
20th	19	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes AMG		20th	1:38.216							20
21st	11	Gary Paffett	TS/FM Mercedes AMG		21st	1:38.384							21
22nd	20	Vitaly Petrov	Petronas Mercedes AMG		22nd	1:38.960							22
23rd	5	Christian Vietoris	OT Mercedes AMG		23rd	1:39.022							23
Source:

• * Molina excluded from the final result after Q3.

Grid

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
	______________
Row 1	1	______________
	Marco Wittmann	2
	______________	Timo Glock
Row 2	3	______________
	Miguel Molina	4
	______________	Maxime Martin
Row 3	5	______________
	António Félix da Costa	6
	______________	Augusto Farfus
Row 4	7	______________
	Adrien Tambay	8
	______________	Nico Müller
Row 5	9	______________
	Bruno Spengler	10
	______________	Jamie Green
Row 6	11	______________
	Mattias Ekström	12
	______________	Edoardo Mortara
Row 7	13	______________
	Mike Rockenfeller	14
	______________	Joey Hand
Row 8	15	______________
	Timo Scheider	16
	______________	Pascal Wehrlein
Row 9	17	______________
	Robert Wickens	18
	______________	Martin Tomczyk
Row 10	19	______________
	Paul di Resta	20
	______________	Daniel Juncadella
Row 11	21	______________
	Gary Paffett	22
	______________	Vitaly Petrov
Row 12	23	______________
	Christian Vietoris	24
	______________	{{{24}}}

Race

A dry, but cloudy day welcomed the DTM field on Sunday, with some forecasting storms, or rain at the very least, at some point during the race. Yet, the circuit was over 30C in temperature, above the preferred minimum temperature for the soft Hankook tyres, and the sun was emerging as the grid completed their formation lap.

Report

Marco Wittmann aced his getaway when the lights went out, pulling clearly ahead of Timo Glock while António Félix da Costa claimed third. Bruno Spengler, meanwhile, would streak up to fourth from ninth on the grid, while Augusto Farfus went the other way. Otherwise, the start was fairly clean, barring the expected panel rubbing as the field charged into the hairpin first corner.

Yet, chaos would unfold as the pack came through turn two, with Gary Paffett effectively removed from the race after receiving a whack from Joey Hand. Hand himself was more of a victim than it appeared, with replays showing that Christian Vietoris had smacked into the back of his car. Neither Hand nor Vietoris would be punished for the accident, while Paffett would limp back to the pits to retire with broken suspension.

Out front, meanwhile, Wittmann managed to streak clear at the head of the field, with Glock and da Costa leading teh chase. Miguel Molina and Edoardo Mortara, meanwhile, would break into the BMW quartet that led the race, with both pushing past Spengler in short order with the Canadian racer on prime (harder) compound tyres. Mike Rockenfeller was the next to get past Spengler's hard hampered BMW, with the Canadian's countryman Robert Wickens, from seventeenth on the grid, taking seventh from him on lap five.

Timo Scheider and Martin Tomczyk were in a constant dogfight with each other as they came up through the field, dragging Paul di Resta in their wake as they caught and passed Spengler on lap nine. Yet, it was not too long before their battle took its toll, as Scheider suffered a suspension failure coming into the chicane at the back of the circuit, causing him to retire on lap twelve. Moments after that incident, di Resta was overtaken by Hand, while Mortara followed Molina past da Costa for fourth.

The race settled down after those fights, with the field settling in to wait for the pit-window to open on lap seventeen. BMW Team RBM opted to bring both of their drivers in, although Farfus caught his squad out by the suddenness of his arrival, with only two tyres ready for the Brazilian. He carried on heavily delayed, as the rest of the field, led by da Costa, took that as the signal to swap their tyres.

The stops themselves saw Molina get into second, jumping Glock outright, although he was powerless to catch Wittmann, who continued after his stop in imperious fashion.

Mortara was another to gain from the stops, now placed right on the tail of Glock as they got heat into their new tyres, and immediately attacked and passed the German racer. Glock then took offence to Mortara's physical manoeuvre, although Glock himself had moved across the Italian's path on the brakes. Their fight would continue to rumbled as, elsewhere, as Spengler began to carve his way up the order on his fresh set of softs after dropping out of the top ten in the first half of the race.

Mortara allowed Glock to re-pass him after Audi Team Abt asked him to let the #17 BMW back past in order to avoid a potential penalty, although he was back past the BMW within a lap. Further back, Nico Müller set the fastest lap of the race as dark clouds gathered overhead on lap 27. Tomczyk, meanwhile, was forced to hand Maxime Martin ninth place after being sold a dummy by the Belgian into the turn one hairpin, while Wickens began to tumble out of the top ten with his tyres fading fast.

Spengler, by this stage, was the fastest man on the circuit, caught and passed Rockenfeller and da Costa in short order, before hunting down Glock for fourth. In his wake came Müller and Jamie Green in the Audi Team Rosberg cars, as Glock attacked Mortara for third with Spengler coming. However, Glock's attempts to pass the #15 Audi proved fruitless, resulting in Spengler being allowed past him without resistant. That ploy would work beautifully for the soft-shod Canadian, who duly dived past Mortara to take third on the following tour to go chasing off after Molina.

In the closing stages, Martin caught and passed Rockenfeller, a move that allowed Adrien Tambay another on a soft assisted charge, and Muller to get through at the chicane. da Costa then fell to the trio in short order through the final sector, as the race entered its penultimate lap. Martin then proceeded to take Glock, before latching onto the back of Mortara for fourth, as Tambay pushed his Audi RS5 DTM to the limit to also get past the ex-F1 racer. He did so at the chicane, although Glock did his best to force him into the grass on the outside of the circuit.

Muller was next up to take Glock, and opted to try a move round the outside of turn one on the final lap. It was not the best move Muller could have made, with Glock running into the back of him and causing the Swiss to spin, right into the German's rear left tyre. Green profitted the most, using the incident ahead to get past Rockenfeller, while Glock limped home with a puncture. Mortara's defence, meanwhile, allowed Tambay to take Martin's fifth place away off-camera, with order remaining unchanged as they battled to the finish line.

It was a faultless drive, however, by race winner Wittmann, who held a six second margin over Molina for most of the second half of the race. Spengler was an impressive third, while the last lap drama saw Green leap into seventh, while da Costa fended off Rockenfeller and Mattias Ekström for eighth, the latter snatching ninth from Rocky at the chicane. Wickens ended the day in eleventh as best of the Mercedes, with Muller recovering to twelfth, while Glock ended the race last and in the pits.

Results

The final classification of the 2014 Hungaroring Race is displayed below:

2014 Hungaroring Race Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Time	Strat.	Fastest lap	Pts.
1st	23	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	41	1:08:35.291	-	1:38.105	25
2nd	8	Miguel Molina	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	41	+6.615s	-	1:38.241	18
3rd	9	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team Schnitzer	41	+21.842s	-	1:38.005	15
4th	15	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Team Abt	41	+29.960s	-	1:38.296	12
5th	16	Adrien Tambay	Audi Team Abt	41	+30.112s	-	1:38.070	10
6th	24	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG	41	+30.357s	-	1:38.102	8
7th	21	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg	41	+34.403s	-	1:38.058	6
8th	18	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team MTEK	41	+34.560s	-	1:38.433	4
9th	7	Mattias Ekström	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	41	+34.826s	-	1:38.334	2
10th	1	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix	41	+36.017s	-	1:36.634	1
11th	12	Robert Wickens	TS/FM Mercedes AMG	41	+38.732s	-	1:39.116
12th	22	Nico Müller	Audi Team Rosberg	41	+41.105s	-	1:37.556
13th	10	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer	41	+1:00.014	-	1:39.396
14th	25	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix Mercedes AMG	41	+1:00.170	-	1:38.785
15th	4	Joey Hand	BMW Team RBM	41	+1:04.407	-	1:39.491
16th	19	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes AMG	41	+1:04.809	-	1:39.090
17th	20	Vitaly Petrov	Petronas Mercedes AMG	41	+1:19.739	-	1:39.151
18th	6	Paul di Resta	OT Mercedes AMG	41	+1:25.635	-	1:40.270
19th	17	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK	41	+1:28.687	-	1:38.278
Ret	5	Christian Vietoris	OT Mercedes AMG	36	Electrical	-	1:40.730
Ret	3	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	31	Retired	-	1:38.902
Ret	2	Timo Scheider	Audi Team Phoenix	10	Suspension	-	1:39.113
Ret	11	Gary Paffett	TS/FM Mercedes AMG	1	Damage		—
Source:

• Bold indicates a driver started from pole.
• Italics indicate that a driver set fastest lap.

Standings

Marco Wittmann therefore left at the top of the Championship, and with a healthy 19 point lead over Mike Rockenfeller. Edoardo Mortara was now third, overtaking team mate Adrien Tambay (who stayed fifth) and Christian Vietoris, although Miguel Molina was the man on the move, leaping up seven places to fourth. Joey Hand was the last of those drivers to have scored a point, down in eighteenth.

BMW Team RMG led the way in the Teams' Championship, with Maxime Martin's first points of his DTM career giving them a five point margin over Team Abt. ABT Sportsline and Team Phoenix proceeded the first of the HWA teams, on a weekend where, once again, Mercedes failed to score a single point. Audi, meanwhile, saw their gap at the top of the Manufacturers standings increase marginally.

2014 Drivers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Marco Wittmann 50 ▲2 2nd Mike Rockenfeller 31 ▼1 3rd Edoardo Mortara 27 ▲3 4th Miguel Molina 26 ▲7 5th Adrien Tambay 26 ◄0 6th Christian Vietoris 25 ▼4 7th Bruno Spengler 23 ▲3 8th Mattias Ekström 20 ▼4 9th Augusto Farfus 14 ▼2 10th Paul di Resta 12 ▼2 11th Timo Glock 10 ▼2 12th Maxime Martin 8 ▲4 13th Timo Scheider 8 ▼1 14th Martin Tomczyk 8 ▼1 15th Jamie Green 6 ▲1 16th António Félix da Costa 4 ▲1 17th Gary Paffett 4 ▼3 18th Joey Hand 1 ▼3

2014 Teams' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st BMW Team RMG 58 ▲4 2nd Audi Team Abt 53 ▲1 3rd Audi Team Abt Sportsline 46 ▲1 4th Audi Team Phoenix 39 ▼3 5th OT Mercedes AMG 37 ▼3 6th BMW Team Schnitzer 31 ◄0 7th BMW Team RBM 15 ◄0 8th BMW Team MTEK 14 ◄0 9th Audi Team Rosberg 6 ▲1 10th TS/FM Mercedes AMG 4 ▼1 2014 Manufacturers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Audi 144 ◄0 2nd BMW 118 ◄0 3rd AMG-Mercedes 41 ◄0

Only point scoring drivers and teams are shown.

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