DTM: Injured Tambay replaced by Rast at Audi

Audi's Adrien Tambay has been replaced by Rene Rast for the second race of the DTM weekend at Zandvoort due to an injury sustained in a start-line crash on Saturday.

Tambay's Team Rosberg RS5 was collected in a chain reaction, with his car hit on the right side at the front axle, and the Frenchman suffered severe pains in his left hand from the impact with the steering wheel.

Hospital X-rays revealed no breakages, but Tambay has been ruled out of action for Sunday.

His place has been taken by Rene Rast, the 29-year-old German who is one of the spearheads of Audi's GT3 effort, predominantly in the Blancpain GT Series.

Rast completed his first DTM race-weekend session in the Sunday warm-up, propping up the timing screens in 24th place but just a couple of hundredths of a second adrift of the next-slowest driver.

BMW's Martin Tomczyk was given a drive-through penalty in the race for causing the collision, which also eliminated the Mercedes of Maximilian Gotz.

Originally on Autosport.com