Polesitter Marco Wittmann won the second DTM race of the weekend at Zolder in the #11 BMW Walkenhorst Motorsport, his first DTM race win since 2019, and Walkenhorst’s first ever DTM win in only their third weekend in the series.
#4 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT’s Maxi Götz finished second, with championship challenger Liam Lawson in third in the #23 Ferrari Red Bull AF Corse.
Nico Müller came through in fourth in the #51 Audi Team Rosberg after a late charge, just seven tenths off Lawson. In fifth was #22 Mercedes-AMG Team Winward’s Lucas Auer, although he crossed the line in second, but had a five second penalty applied for a pit stop infringement, dropping him behind Götz, Lawson, and Müller.
Lawson’s teammate Alex Albon finished sixth in the #23 Ferrari AlphaTauri AF Corse, with #31 BMW ROWE Racing’s Sheldon van der Linde finishing seventh, in front of his older brother, Kelvin, in the #3 Audi ABT Sportsline.
In ninth was Belgian Esteban Muth in the #10 Lamborghini T3 Motorsport, after a charging drive to pass Daniel Juncadella, Maximilian Buhk, and Mike Rockenfeller. However, he couldn’t find a way past championship challenger Kelvin van der Linde, despite multiple side-by-side attempts on the narrow Circuit Zolder.
Muth split the two ABT Sportsline cars, with Rockenfeller in the #9 Audi ABT Sportsline in tenth, ahead of Buhk in the #18 Mercedes-AMG Mücke Motorsport and Juncadella in #8 the Mercedes-AMG GruppeM Racing.
There were two retirements from the race: Vincent Abril, in the #5 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT got hit by #57 Mercedes-AMG Team Winward’s Philip Ellis at turn 1 on the first lap had race-ending damage, pulling off at the Kleine Chicane to end his race. Ellis later received a drive through penalty for his trouble, dropping him back to 16th after running in the top 10. And #99 Audi Team ABT, Sophia Floersch, who retired with brake issues.
In terms of the championship, Kelvin van der Linde leads by 21 points from Lawson, with Götz a further eight points behind. The next race weekend will take place at the Nurburgring on August 20-22.
| # | Driver | Car | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marco Wittmann | BMW M6 GT3 | |
| 2 | Maximilian Götz | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 1.711 |
| 3 | Liam Lawson | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | 3.557 |
| 4 | Nico Müller | Audi R8 LMS Evo | 4.286 |
| 5 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 10.666 |
| 6 | Alex Albon | Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 | 10.851 |
| 7 | Sheldon van der Linde | BMW M6 GT3 | 19.894 |
| 8 | Kelvin van der Linde | Audi R8 LMS Evo | 23.775 |
| 9 | Esteban Muth | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | 24.249 |
| 10 | Mike Rockenfeller | Audi R8 LMS Evo | 25.111 |
| 11 | Maximilian Buhk | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 27.887 |
| 12 | Daniel Juncadella | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 28.557 |
| 13 | Esmee Hawkey | Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo | 30.661 |
| 14 | Christian Klien | McLaren 720S GT3 | 32.882 |
| 15 | Dev Gore | Audi R8 LMS Evo | 41.145 |
| 16 | Philip Ellis | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo | 57.895 |
| 17 | Timo Glock | BMW M6 GT3 | 1’04.428 |
| 18 | Sophia Flörsch | Audi R8 LMS Evo | 14 Laps |
| 19 | Vincent Abril | Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo |
