Rene Rast takes dominant Saturday win in Zolder

Rene Rast has taken a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the Saturday DTM race at Zolder, leading every lap to win by sixteen seconds over Robin Frijns.

Rast started the race from pole position and remained unchallenged throughout the race, taking his third victory of the season and the twentieth victory of his DTM career.

Robin Frijns briefly took second plcace at the start but dropped back behind Timo Glock after their respective pitstops. Glock had started second but dropped back to fourth at the start. When he pitted early, he jumped back up to second but his fading tyres left him a sitting duck for Frijns.

The Dutchman challenged Glock on lap 23 but failed before sealing the move and taking second place on the next lap. Glock then dropped off the podium when he was hunted down and passed by Nico Müller, who did well to finish third after starting a disappointing seventh.

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Glock ended the race in fourth, half a second ahead of a strong Harrison Newey in fifth place. Sheldon van der Linde finished sixth, ahead of Ferdinand Habsburg and Mike Rockenfeller. Rockenfeller managed to grab points despite a very slow stop that dropped him to last.

Philipp Eng and Loic Duval completed the top ten, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein, Lucas Auer and Fabio Scherer, with Robert Kubica finishing last.

The race features two retirements. Jamie Green retired in somewhat controversial fashion after clashing with Philipp Eng, damaging the front of his Audi RS5 DTM. The subsequent damage forced the Briton to retire.

Marco Wittmann joined Green in retirement when he suffered a gearbox failure in his BMW M4 DTM.