By alley - Aug 21, 2016, 8:01 AM ET

DTM: Wittmann reclaims points lead with Moscow win

Marco Wittmann seized back the DTM points lead with a commanding Race 2 win at Moscow Raceway.

BMW Team RMG driver Wittmann led from pole and cantered clear of runner-up Tom Blomqvist to claim his second victory of the season, eventually winning by four seconds.

Wittmann was allowed to escape at the start in part thanks to the efforts of Robert Wickens who, promoted to third on the grid after a qualifying crash forced third-place qualifier Maxime Martin to start from the back, pestered Blomqvist at the start of the first stint.

That allowed Wittmann to build a comfortable three-second cushion before the pit stop phase, and after completing a clean stop eked out his advantage until the finish.

Blomqvist recorded his third second-place finish of the season well clear of those behind, with Bruno Spengler and Augusto Farfus completing a BMW 1-2-3-4 after working their way around an ailing Wickens.

Leading Mercedes man Wickens had dropped away slightly from Blomqvist before the pit stop phase, with a slow stop dropping him further back before he began to complain about the driveability of his C63.

Wickens was rapidly caught by the chasing pack, led initially by HWA teammate Dani Juncadella, and though he was able to put up a fight he was soon picked off by Spengler at Turn 2 on lap 30 after the BMW driver had worked his way around Juncadella.

Spengler raced away from there into a clear third, but Farfus was another man to make it by Wickens before the finish, the Brazilian making the most of an aggressive strategy to emerge in sixth behind Juncadella before jumping the Spaniard and Wickens to claim fourth.

Having taken the lead of the championship a day earlier, Wickens did at least limit the damage with a dogged run to fifth, just holding off Edoardo Mortara for the position at the flag.

Nico Muller grabbed seventh from Adrien Tambay, while Mattias Ekstrom and Lucas Auer completed the points.

Juncadella finished 12th, paying the price for assisting Wickens' cause, while Paul di Resta also dropped out of the points late on after he was handed a drive-through penalty for pushing Timo Glock out of the race.

RESULTS - 40 LAPS:

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	Marco Wittmann	RMG	BMW	1h02m03.216s
2	Tom Blomqvist	RBM	BMW	4.123s
3	Bruno Spengler	MTEK	BMW	18.119s
4	Augusto Farfus	MTEK	BMW	24.650s
5	Robert Wickens	HWA	Mercedes	38.818s
6	Edoardo Mortara	Abt	Audi	38.885s
7	Nico Muller	Abt	Audi	39.158s
8	Adrien Tambay	Rosberg	Audi	41.193s
9	Mattias Ekstrom	Abt	Audi	41.223s
10	Lucas Auer	Mucke	Mercedes	42.138s
11	Miguel Molina	Abt	Audi	42.245s
12	Daniel Juncadella	HWA	Mercedes	42.562s
13	Timo Scheider	Phoenix	Audi	42.641s
14	Christian Vietoris	Mucke	Mercedes	46.076s
15	Mike Rockenfeller	Phoenix	Audi	47.432s
16	Maximilian Gotz	HWA	Mercedes	48.338s
17	Maxime Martin	RBM	BMW	51.310s
18	Gary Paffett	ART	Mercedes	52.078s
19	Antonio Felix da Costa	Schnitzer	BMW	55.563s
20	Paul Di Resta	HWA	Mercedes	57.467s
21	Felix Rosenqvist	ART	Mercedes	57.979s
22	Jamie Green	Rosberg	Audi	1m01.627s
23	Martin Tomczyk	Schnitzer	BMW	1m04.773s
-	Timo Glock	RMG	BMW	Retirement

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS

Pos	Driver	Points
1	Marco Wittmann	130
2	Robert Wickens	118
3	Jamie Green	104
4	Edoardo Mortara	100
5	Paul Di Resta	92
6	Tom Blomqvist	71
7	Maxime Martin	71
8	Mattias Ekstrom	70
9	Nico Muller	68
10	Gary Paffett	67
11	Timo Glock	48
12	Lucas Auer	44
13	Augusto Farfus	44
14	Bruno Spengler	43
15	Christian Vietoris	42
16	Miguel Molina	26
17	Maximilian Gotz	16
18	Antonio Felix da Costa	16
19	Adrien Tambay	14
20	Martin Tomczyk	13
21	Mike Rockenfeller	5
22	Daniel Juncadella	4
23	Timo Scheider	3
24	Esteban Ocon	2
25	Felix Rosenqvist	1
26	Rene Rast	0