2018 Hungaroring Race 2

2018 Hungaroring Race 2
The Hungaroring returned to host the DTM in 2018.
Race Information
Date	3 June 2018
No.	219
Event	DTM Budapest 2018
Location	Hungaroring Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary
Format	55 min + 1 lap
Lap length	4.381 km (2.722 mi)
Distance	26 laps / 113.906 km (70.778 mi)
Qualifying Result
Pole Sitter	Lucas Auer
Team	Silberpfeil Energy Mercedes-AMG Motorsport
Time	1:36.717
Fastest Lap
Driver	Daniel Juncadella
Team	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Remus
Time	1:38.417 on lap 13
Race Result
First	Second	Third
Marco Wittmann	Timo Glock	Philipp Eng
Winner Team	BMW Team RMG
Time	1:17:50.129
Race Guide
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The DTM Budapest 2018 Race 2, otherwise known as the 2018 Hungaroring Race 2, was the sixth race of the 2018 DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship, staged at the Hungaroring in Mogyoród, Pest, Hungary, on 3 June 2018. The race would see Marco Wittmann secure victory, after a red flag was required to allow medical crews to attend injured mechanics in the pitlane after a series of accidents.

Qualifying had seen Mercedes dominate the upper echelons of the field, with Lucas Auer heading a quintet of Stuttgart machinery. Pascal Wehrlein would share the front row with the Austrian, as René Rast secured the best starting position for Audi in sixth, while Timo Glock claimed eighth for BMW.

The start of the race saw Auer secure an early lead from pole, with the majority of the Mercedes hoard giving chase behind. Daniel Juncadella, the sixth Mercedes, would make it up with them with a lunge around the outside of Rast through turn one, with the rest of the field filling in behind them.

An eventful opening lap would see Nico Müller tip Glock into a spin at turn three, prompting the German to stop, with Joel Eriksson and Mike Rockenfeller also stopping. However, the race soon settled into a procession at the notoriously narrow Hungaroring, until rain arrived at the start of lap four.

The rain combined with drivers on slick tyres resulted in some rapid revisions to the order, with Wehrlin passing Auer for the lead, while Juncadella came under fire from Rast. Several drivers would then make stops for wet tyres as the rain intensified, with Auer getting caught out on the wet concrete a sliding into his pitcrew. Moments later and Edoardo Mortara and Bruno Spengler had identical accidents when they attempted to stop, with the race ultimately stopped as the circuit's ambulances were scrambled to the pitlane.

A half-hour interruption followed, with no serious injuries reported, before the race resumed on a now drying circuit. Wehrlein and Paffett would head the charge but had yet to make their stops, with Paffett peeling off to serve his stop at the end of lap twelve.

Juncadella moved into the lead with a move on Wehrlein a lap later, with Müller and Jamie Green also closing in, although all four still had to make their stops. That left Philipp Eng in the de facto lead of the race, although Wittmann soon usurped him with Glock following him through.

Once the lead quartet had stopped the race was over, with Wittmann securing victory ahead of Glock, while Eng just kept Rockenfeller at bay to complete the podium. Behind, Paul di Resta scrambled back up to salvage fifth for Mercedes ahead of Eriksson, while Spengler, Augusto Farfus, Auer and Mortara completed the scorers.

After the race, however, it was announced that Spengler, Auer and Mortara were to be disqualified, as they had triggered the red flag. That pushed Robin Frijns, Loïc Duval and Rast into the points instead.

Background

Gary Paffett moved to the top of the Championship as a result of the first battle in Budapest, opening out a seven point lead over former leader Timo Glock. Yet, those two still held a fair margin over the chasing pack, with Paul di Resta leading the counter-charge on 56 points, and hence was sixteen behind Glock. Lucas Auer was next up ahead of Edoardo Mortara, who had also inched closer to the hunt, while Nico Müller's first points of the campaign meant that all eighteen drivers had scored after five rounds.

In the Teams' Championship it was Mercedes-AMG Petronas who still led the field, moving onto 118 points for the season. Sister squad Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil had moved into second with 99 points, while BMW Team RMR had dropped to third, but were just a point behind Silberpfeil. Mercedes, meanwhile, would continue to head the Manufacturers' challenge, moving onto 278 points, with BMW and Audi having lost more ground.

Entry List

The full entry list for the 2018 Hungaroring Race 2 is displayed below:

2018 Hungaroring Race 2 Entry List
No.	Name	Entrant	Constructor	Chassis	Engine
2	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Petronas	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
3	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Remus	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
4	Robin Frijns	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
11	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
15	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RMG	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
16	Timo Glock	BMW Team RMR	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
22	Lucas Auer	Silberpfeil Energy Mercedes-AMG Motorsport	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
23	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Remus	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
25	Philipp Eng	BMW Team RMR	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
28	Loïc Duval	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
33	René Rast	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
47	Joel Eriksson	BMW Team RBM	BMW	M4 DTM	P66/1 4.0l V8
48	Edoardo Mortara	Silberpfeil Energy Mercedes-AMG Motorsport	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
51	Nico Müller	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
53	Jamie Green	Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes-AMG Motorsport Petronas	Mercedes	AMG C63 DTM	AMG 4.0l V8
99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi	RS5 DTM	Audi 4.0l V8
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Qualifying

Results

The final qualifying result for the 2018 Hungaroring Race 2 are outlined below:

2018 Hungaroring Race 2 Qualifying Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Time	Gap	Ave. Speed	Grid
1st	22	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil	1:36.717	—	163.069 km/h	1
2nd	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes-AMG Petronas	1:36.780	+0.063s	162.963 km/h	2
3rd	3	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG Remus	1:36.977	+0.260s	162.632 km/h	3
4th	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil	1:37.016	+0.299s	162.566 km/h	4
5th	2	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG Petronas	1:37.025	+0.308s	162.551 km/h	5
6th	33	René Rast	Audi Team Rosberg	1:37.046	+0.329s	162.516 km/h	6
7th	23	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG Remus	1:37.058	+0.341s	162.496 km/h	7
8th	16	Timo Glock	BMW Team RMR	1:37.105	+0.388s	162.418 km/h	8
9th	51	Nico Müller	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	1:37.219	+0.502s	162.227 km/h	9
10th	53	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg	1:37.259	+0.542s	162.160 km/h	10
11th	4	Robin Frijns	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	1:37.265	+0.548s	162.150 km/h	11
12th	15	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RMG	1:37.332	+0.615s	162.039 km/h	12
13th	28	Loïc Duval	Audi Team Phoenix	1:37.430	+0.713s	161.876 km/h	13
14th	11	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	1:37.453	+0.736s	161.838 km/h	14
15th	25	Philipp Eng	BMW Team RMR	1:37.505	+0.788s	161.751 km/h	15
16th	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix	1:37.510	+0.793s	161.743 km/h	16
17th	47	Joel Eriksson	BMW Team RBM	1:37.530	+0.813s	161.710 km/h	17
18th	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team RBM	1:37.750	+1.033s	161.346 km/h	18
Source:

• Bold indicates a driver's best/qualifying time.

Grid

	Pos.	Pos.
	Driver	Driver
	______________
Row 1	1	______________
	Lucas Auer	2
	______________	Pascal Wehrlein
Row 2	3	______________
	Paul di Resta	4
	______________	Edoardo Mortara
Row 3	5	______________
	Gary Paffett	6
	______________	René Rast
Row 4	7	______________
	Daniel Juncadella	8
	______________	Timo Glock
Row 5	9	______________
	Nico Müller	10
	______________	Jamie Green
Row 6	11	______________
	Robin Frijns	12
	______________	Augusto Farfus
Row 7	13	______________
	Loïc Duval	14
	______________	Marco Wittmann
Row 8	15	______________
	Philipp Eng	16
	______________	Mike Rockenfeller
Row 9	17	______________
	Joel Eriksson	18
	______________	Bruno Spengler

Race

Results

The final classification of the 2018 Hungaroring Race 2 is displayed below:

2018 Hungaroring Race 2 Result
Pos.	No.	Name	Team	Laps	Race Time	Fastest lap	Pts.
1st	11	Marco Wittmann	BMW Team RMG	26	1:17:50.129	1:38.854	25
2nd	16	Timo Glock	BMW Team RMR	26	+5.870s	1:38.908	18
3rd	25	Philipp Eng	BMW Team RMR	26	+13.457s	1:39.374	15
4th	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi Team Phoenix	26	+13.937s	1:39.194	12
5th	3	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG Remus	26	+16.276s	1:39.202	101
6th	47	Joel Eriksson	BMW Team RBM	26	+20.446s	1:39.411	8
7th	15	Augusto Farfus	BMW Team RMG	26	+21.464s	1:39.347	6
8th	4	Robin Frijns	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	26	+23.350s	1:38.574	4
9th	28	Loïc Duval	Audi Team Phoenix	26	+23.772s	1:39.266	2
10th	33	René Rast	Audi Team Rosberg	26	+24.263s	1:38.829	1
11th	23	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG Remus	26	+24.580s	1:38.417
12th	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes-AMG Petronas	26	+25.185s	1:38.608	2
13th	53	Jamie Green	Audi Team Rosberg	26	+27.098s	1:38.562
14th	51	Nico Müller	Audi Team Abt Sportsline	26	+54.865s	1:38.683
15th	2	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG Petronas	26	+1:15.907	1:39.265
DSQ*	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW Team RBM	26	Disqualified	1:39.319
DSQ*	22	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil	26	Disqualified	1:39.020	3
DSQ*	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil	26	Disqualified	1:39.253
Source:

• ³ Indicates a driver was awarded points for qualifying in the top three.
• Bold indicates a driver started from pole.
• Italics indicate that a driver set fastest lap.
• * Spengler, Auer and Mortara were all disqualified for causing the red flag period.

Milestones

• Tenth career victory for Marco Wittmann.

Standings

Timo Glock had returned to the head of the Championship hunt as the weekend in Hungary came to an end, with his advantage established at a relatively healthy eleven points. Gary Paffett was his closest challenger in second having lost the initiative, while Paul di Resta had held third. Lucas Auer and Marco Wittmann completed the top five, with all eighteen drivers on the score sheet.

BMW Team RMR led the charge in the Teams' Championship after six rounds, having left Hungary on 131 points. That meant they were eleven ahead of Mercedes-AMG Petronas, the former leaders, while Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil were still relatively close in third. Mercedes, meanwhile, would continue to dominate the precedings in the Manufacturers' Championship, leaving Hungary with 58 points in hand over BMW in second.

2018 Drivers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Timo Glock 90 ▲1 2nd Gary Paffett 79 ▼1 3rd Paul di Resta 67 ◄0 4th Lucas Auer 55 ◄0 5th Marco Wittmann 51 ▲2 6th Edoardo Mortara 47 ▼1 7th Philipp Eng 41 ▲1 8th Pascal Wehrlein 41 ▼2 9th Mike Rockenfeller 34 ▲1 10th Joel Eriksson 23 ▲3 11th René Rast 23 ◄0 12th Bruno Spengler 23 ▼3 13th Nico Müller 17 ▼1 14th Loïc Duval 17 ◄0 15th Robin Frijns 11 ▲1 16th Jamie Green 10 ▼1 17th Augusto Farfus 8 ▲1 18th Daniel Juncadella 5 ▼1

2018 Teams' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st BMW Team RMR 131 ▲2 2nd Mercedes-AMG Petronas 120 ▼1 3rd Mercedes-AMG Silberpfeil 102 ▼1 4th Mercedes-AMG Remus 72 ◄0 5th BMW Team RMG 59 ▲3 6th Audi Team Phoenix 51 ◄0 7th BMW Team RBM 46 ▼2 8th Audi Team Rosberg 33 ▼1 9th Audi Team Abt Sportsline 28 ◄0 2018 Manufacturers' Championship Pos. Name Pts. +/- 1st Mercedes 294 ◄0 2nd BMW 236 ◄0 3rd Audi 112 ◄0

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