2015 Lausitzring Race 2

2015 Lausitzring Race 2
The Lausitzring in 2015.
Race Information
Date	31 May 2015
No.	183
Event	DTM Lausitz 2015
Location	Lausitzring Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany
Format	60 min + 1 Lap
Lap length	3.478 km (2.161 mi)
Distance	46 laps / 159.988 km (99.412 mi)
Qualifying Result
Pole Sitter	Jamie Green
Team	Audi Sport Team Rosberg
Time	1:17.386
Fastest Lap
Driver	Jamie Green
Team	Audi Sport Team Rosberg
Time	1:18.504 on lap 5
Race Result
First	Second	Third
Jamie Green	Mattias Ekström	Miguel Molina
Winner Team	Audi Sport Team Rosberg
Time	1:02:33.014
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The 2015 Lausitzring Race 2, otherwise known as the DTM Lausitz 2015 Race 2, was the fourth round of the 2015 DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship, staged at the Lausitzring in Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany on 31 May 2015. The race would see Jamie Green collect his third victory of the campaign, after a race long battle with Mattias Ekström.

Indeed, having won the Saturday Race, Green would sweep to pole position for the Sunday race in qualifying, half a second clear of Ekström. Audis would also lock-out the second row, courtesy of Timo Scheider and Miguel Molina, while Maxime Martin qualified in fifth to be the best of the BMWs.

The start of the race would see Ekström out-drag Green into the first corner, before securing the lead on the brakes. Behind, Martin tried to repeat his Race 1 move around the outside but had to settle for fifth, with the rest of the field making it through the hairpin-esque corner without issue.

Further around the opening tour Robert Wickens was accused of pushing Marco Wittmann into the gravel, although both would continue. Ekström, meanwhile, would ease away from Green in a bid to escape from DRS range, which came on-line on lap three.

Ultimately, Ekström would fail to break far enough ahead, with Green using DRS to harass the Swede for the lead. He duly scythed past the Swede into turn one on lap seven, but had to relinquish it when Ekström slid the #5 Audi back inside, before successfully repeating the move a lap later.

Green subsequently established a small lead over Ekström, with the order settling down until the pit window opened on lap fourteen. Miguel Molina was the first to stop when the pits opened, with the rest of the field coming in over the next seven laps.

Once the pit stops were out of the way the stalemate in the fight for the lead resumed, with Ekström simply unable to trouble Green with more than a half-hearted look. Elsewhere, there would be a lot of contact between the Mercedes and BMW drivers, with Pascal Wehrlein barging past António Félix da Costa, while Augusto Farfus had to retire after whacking Maximilian Götz.

However, it was an off for Lucas Auer all on his own that would disrupt the race, with the Safety Car being called out as the Austrian beached his Mercedes in the gravel. The SC remained out for five laps, and put Ekström right on Green's tail, although the Brit would break clear when the race resumed.

With that the race was run, with Green sweeping across the line to claim victory, becoming the first driver since Laurent Aïello in 2002 to claim two race victories in a single race meeting. Ekström was next up ahead of Molina, Scheider and Edoardo Mortara, while Daniel Juncadella was the best of the Mercedes in sixth. Christian Vietoris was next up ahead of Martin, while Nico Müller and Mike Rockenfeller completed the scorers.

Background

Jamie Green had returned to the lead of the Championship after his second win of the campaign, which had moved him two ahead of Edoardo Mortara. Mortara himself was eight clear of Mattias Ekström, while Pascal Wehrlein had slipped eighteen off the lead in fourth. Mike Rockenfeller then completed the early top five, albeit some 30 points off the lead, with eighteen drivers on the scoresheet.

In the Teams' Championship it was still Audi Team Rosberg who led the way, and had managed to enhance their advantage to six points. Audi Team Abt Sportsline were their closest challengers in second, while their sister squad Audi Team Abt were in third on 48. Audi therefore had a dominant lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, holding 182 points after the opening three rounds.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2015 Lausitzring Race 2 is displayed below:

2015 Lausitzring Race 2 Entry List
No.	Name	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine
1	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
2	Gary Paffett	Euronics/BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
3	Paul di Resta	Silberpfeil Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
5	Mattias Ekström	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
6	Robert Wickens	Silberpfeil Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team MTEK	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
8	Christian Vietoris	gooix/Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
10	Timo Scheider	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
12	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
13	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
16	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
17	Miguel Molina	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
18	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
22	Lucas Auer	Euronics/BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
27	Adrien Tambay	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
31	Tom Blomqvist	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
36	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
48	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
51	Nico Müller	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
53	Jamie Green	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
77	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW	M4 DTM	P66 4.0l V8
84	Maximilian Götz	Petronas Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
94	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix/Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG	C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM 15	Audi 4.0l V8
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Qualifying

Miguel Molina topped the times early on, but lost out on pole in the final moments, as Jamie Green produced a stunning lap to go more than half a second faster than anyone else.

Report

Mattias Ekström swung his Audi into second, with another double champion, Timo Scheider to be found in third. Molina dropped to fourth, beating Maxime Martin, one of only two BMWs in the top ten, amid a sea of Bavarian boys. Augusto Farfus sat in seventh, ahead of the second Audi Team Rosberg car of Nico Müller, with Mike Rockenfeller in ninth meaning there were seven Audis in the top ten.

It was a desperate situation for Mercedes, however, at a track they usually dominate, with Daniel Juncadella their best placed car in tenth. HWA were also struggling, with the main Mercedes factory car of Pascal Wehrlein to be found down in fourteenth, although Christian Vietoris and Robert Wickens were in close attendance.

Other strugglers in the field were to be found further down, with Champion Marco Wittmann down in seventeenth, although it must be said that 23 of the 24 cars were seperated, overall, by less than a second. If Green's time was factored out, then a little over half a second covered second to 23rd, with Maximilian Götz not setting a time at all.

Results

The final qualifying result for the 2015 Lausitzring Race 2 are outlined below:

2015 Lausitzring Race 2 Qualifying Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Ave. Speed	Grid
1st	53	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg	1:17.386	—	161.796 km/h	1
2nd	5	Mattias Ekström	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	1:17.906	+0.520s	160.716 km/h	2
3rd	10	Timo Scheider	Audi Team Phoenix	1:17.931	+0.545s	160.665 km/h	3
4th	17	Miguel Molina	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	1:17.940	+0.554s	160.646 km/h	4
5th	36	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG	1:17.954	+0.568s	160.617 km/h	5
6th	48	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Team Abt	1:18.024	+0.638s	160.473 km/h	6
7th	18	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	1:18.042	+0.656s	160.436 km/h	7
8th	51	Nico Müller	Audi Team Rosberg	1:18.049	+0.663s	160.422 km/h	8
9th	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix	1:18.053	+0.667s	160.414 km/h	9
10th	12	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes-AMG	1:18.056	+0.670s	160.407 km/h	10
11th	2	Gary Paffett	ART Grand Prix	1:18.068	+0.682s	160.383 km/h	11
12th	31	Tom Blomqvist	BMW Team RBM	1:18.088	+0.702s	160.342 km/h	12
13th	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team MTEK	1:18.121	+0.735s	160.274 km/h	13
14th	94	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix/OT Mercedes-AMG	1:18.151	+0.765s	160.212 km/h	14
15th	8	Christian Vietoris	gooix/OT Mercedes-AMG	1:18.205	+0.819s	160.102 km/h	15
16th	6	Robert Wickens	Silberpfeil Mercedes-AMG	1:18.216	+0.830s	160.079 km/h	16
17th	1	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	1:18.241	+0.855s	160.028 km/h	17
18th	13	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team Schnitzer	1:18.256	+0.870s	159.997 km/h	18
19th	22	Lucas Auer	ART Grand Prix	1:18.276	+0.890s	159.957 km/h	19
20th	27	Adrien Tambay	Audi Team Abt	1:18.334	+0.948s	159.838 km/h	20
21st	16	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK	1:18.346	+0.960s	159.814 km/h	21
22nd	3	Paul di Resta	Silberpfeil Mercedes-AMG	1:18.449	+1.063s	159.604 km/h	22
23rd	77	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer	1:18.484	+1.098s	159.533 km/h	23
NC	84	Maximilian Götz	Petronas Mercedes-AMG				24
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• Bold indicates a driver's best/qualifying time.

Grid

The starting grid for the second race at the Lausitzring in 2015 is displayed below:

		77	Martin Tomczyk	1:18.484			16	Timo Glock	1:18.346			22	Lucas Auer	1:18.276			13	António Félix da Costa	1:18.256			6	Robert Wickens	1:18.216			94	Pascal Wehrlein	1:18.151			2	Gary Paffett	1:18.068			99	Mike Rockenfeller	1:18.053			18	Augusto Farfus	1:18.042			36	Maxime Martin	1:17.954			10	Timo Scheider	1:17.931			53	Jamie Green	1:17.386
	84	Maximilian Götz		No Time		3	Paul di Resta		1:18.449		27	Adrien Tambay		1:18.334		7	Bruno Spengler		Penalty		1	Marco Wittmann		1:18.241		8	Christian Vietoris		1:18.205		31	Tom Blomqvist		1:18.088		12	Daniel Juncadella		1:18.056		51	Nico Müller		1:18.049		48	Edoardo Mortara		1:18.024		17	Miguel Molina		1:17.940		5	Mattias Ekström		1:17.906

Race

A dry Sunday greeted the DTM field for the hour long DTM race of the weekend, with a compulsory pitstop to be taken at any time during the race. With no changes to the grid, the formation lap started at 14:20 local time to signal the start of the race.

Report

Mattias Ekström stole the lead from Jamie Green off the line, as the field all survived the first corner again, with Maxime Martin trying another ambitious move around the outside to gain places. Marco Wittmann went very wide and into the gravel, tumbling down to the back of the field, with Robert Wickens under investigation for causing it. Meanwhile, Ekström steadily built a lead at the front, although remained within a second of Green as Tom Blomqvist retired before the end of lap three.

DRS became active on lap four, while Gary Paffett came into the pits to retire, with Green now able to get onto the back of Ekström. Green tried a dive down the inside of Ekström into turn one on lap seven, taking the lead briefly, as the Swede managed to return the favour by cutting back inside the Brit into the next corner. A lap later, however, Green tried the same move, and was successful in holding the position.

Lap fourteen saw the first cars take their mandatory pitstop, with Miguel Molina leading the charge. The next seven laps saw the majority of the field pit, with the order remaining the same, although Timo Scheider was in a position to challenge Molina after. Pascal Wehrlein's recovery from a poor start saw him locked in battle with António Félix da Costa over seventeenth, with the Mercedes F1 reserve driver put under investigation for causing a collision with the Formula E driver.

Augusto Farfus brought his car into the pits to retire after heavy contact with Maximilian Götz, who also came into the pits, although his was for his mandatory stop. Wehrlein was cleared of causing a collision with da Costa, and, after taking advantage of Farfus' dramas, took Timo Glock for fourteenth. Wickens ran wide after locking up into the first corner, before Lucas Auer ran too wide and spun in the gravel, beaching himself.

The safety car was out for around five laps, destroying Green's lead, but the Brit was quick to re-establish it after the restart, with a little over five minutes to go. Adrien Tambay was sent off the track by Bruno Spengler after contact, with the Canadian handed a time penalty for causing the incident, with Tambay out of the race. But, no one could stop Green at the front of the field, as he became the first driver since Laurent Aïello to take two victories in a DTM weekend.

Ekström took second to match Edoardo Mortara's tally of 58 (as the Italian finished in fifth), with Scheider unable to find his way past Molina for third. Martin became the best placed BMW after Spengler's relegation, although his eighth place meant he finished behind Daniel Juncadella, whom just missed out on fifth in a last lap battle with Mortara. Mike Rockenfeller completed the point scorers.

Results

The final classification of the 2015 Lausitzring Race 2 is displayed below:

2015 Lausitzring Race 2 Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Race Time	Fastest lap	Pts.
1st	53	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg	46	1:02:33.014	1:18.504	25
2nd	5	Mattias Ekström	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	46	+2.144s	1:18.793	18
3rd	17	Miguel Molina	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	46	+5.038s	1:18.674	15
4th	10	Timo Scheider	Audi Team Phoenix	46	+5.678s	1:18.774	12
5	48	Edoardo Mortara	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	46	+7.708s	1:18.904	10
6th	12	Daniel Juncadella	Petronas Mercedes-AMG	46	+9.165s	1:18.930	8
7th	8	Christian Vietoris	gooix/OT Mercedes AMG	46	+9.906s	1:19.009	6
8th	36	Maxime Martin	BMW Team RMG	46	+10.789s	1:18.952	4
9th	51	Nico Müller	Audi Team Rosberg	46	+11.187s	1:19.002	2
10th	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix	46	+12.055s	1:19.123	1
11th	77	Martin Tomczyk	BMW Team Schnitzer	46	+12.267s	1:19.207
12th	16	Timo Glock	BMW Team MTEK	46	+12.864s	1:19.039
13th	94	Pascal Wehrlein	gooix/OT Mercedes-AMG	46	+14.741s	1:19.052
14th	13	António Félix da Costa	BMW Team Schnitzer	46	+14.750s	1:19.396
15th	3	Paul di Resta	Silberpfeil Mercecdes-AMG	46	+15.937s	1:19.457
16th	84	Maximilian Götz	Petronas Mercedes-AMG	46	+16.470s	1:19.256
17th	1	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	46	+19.903s	1:19.135
18th	6	Robert Wickens	Silberpfeil Mercedes-AMG	46	+21.325s	1:19.155
19th	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team MTEK	46	+41.439s	1:19.205
20th	27	Adrien Tambay	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	42	+4 laps	1:19.086
21st	22	Lucas Auer	ART Grand Prix	36	+10 laps	1:19.191
Ret	18	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RBM	30	Accident	1:19.049
Ret	2	Gary Paffett	ART Grand Prix	4	Retired	1:19.935
Ret	31	Tom Blomqvist	BMW Team Schnitzer	2	Retired	1:32.648
Source:

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

Milestones

• Twelfth victory for Jamie Green.
  • Green became the first driver to win both races at a race meeting since Laurent Aïello in 2002.

Standings

Jamie Green left the Lausitzring at the summit of the Championship, and having won three of the four opening races, was one of the favourites for the Championship. Mattias Ekström and Edoardo Mortara were the only drivers within a race victory of him, and ensured that Audi were in a dominant position for the Brands Championship. Miguel Molina made it four Audis in the top five, with Pascal Wehrlein the interloper in fourth for Mercedes-Benz.

Green's superb start also meant that Audi Team Rosberg led the Teams Championship, ahead of the first of the Audi Team Abt Sportsline entries on wins. The second Abt pairing ensured an all Audi top three, with the second HWA pair of Wehrlein and Christian Vietoris in fourth. It had not been a good start for BMW, however, as they trailed in all three Championships, with BMW Team RMG their best outfit in sixth.

2015 Drivers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Jamie Green 75 ◄0 2nd Mattias Ekström 58 ▲1 3rd Edoardo Mortara 58 ▼1 4th Pascal Wehrlein 32 ◄0 5 Miguel Molina 27 ▲5 6th Mike Rockenfeller 21 ▼1 7th Maxime Martin 16 ▲5 8th Timo Scheider 16 ▲7 9th Gary Paffett 15 ▼2 10th Paul di Resta 15 ▼4 11th Robert Wickens 14 ▼3 12th Martin Tomczyk 12 ▼3 13th Marco Wittmann 12 ▼2 14th Nico Müller 10 ▼1 15th Daniel Juncadella 9 ▲1 16th Christian Vietoris 6 ▲4 17th Timo Glock 5 ▼3 18th Bruno Spengler 2 ▼2 19th Augusto Farfus 1 ▼1

2015 Teams' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Audi Team Rosberg 85 ◄0 2nd Audi Team Abt Sportsline 85 ◄0 3rd Audi Team Abt 58 ◄0 4th gooix/OT Mercedes-AMG 38 ◄0 5th Audi Team Phoenix 37 ▲1 6th Silberpfeil Mercedes-AMG 29 ▼1 7th BMW Team RMG 28 ◄0 8th ART Grand Prix 15 ◄0 9th BMW Team Schnitzer 12 ◄0 10th Petronas Mercedes-AMG 9 ▲1 11th BMW Team MTEK 7 ▼1 12th BMW Team RBM 1 ◄0 2015 Manufacturers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Audi 264 ◄0 2nd Mercedes-AMG 91 ◄0 3rd BMW 48 ◄0

Only point scoring drivers are shown.

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