By alley - Sep 24, 2016, 10:31 AM ET

DTM: Mortara closes on points lead with victory

Edoardo Mortara boosted his DTM title hopes with a fourth win of the season at the Hungaroring, his second victory in as many races.

Having claimed his first pole of the season earlier on Saturday, Mortara led from lights to flag at the Hungaroring to reduce his deficit to points leader Marco Wittmann, eventually winning by 1.090 seconds ahead of Jamie Green.

Any thoughts of Mortara losing his lead were quickly dispelled as the Italian made a stunning start away from the grid, as Green protected his second place from fellow Audi driver Miguel Molina.

Green, fourth in the championship, stayed with the leader for the majority of the race to prove he had the pace to challenge for victory, but never looked like attacking Audi's lead title hope and eased off in the final laps.

That allowed Mortara to stroke his RS5 home in the final laps to claim his sixth victory in the DTM since joining the grid in 2011.

Abt driver Molina clinched third with a comfortable enough margin over Mike Rockenfeller, who secured his best result of 2016 by some distance in fourth.

Nico Muller repassed Adrien Tambay for fifth in one of the race's few significant overtakes after the start, with Tambay rounding out an Audi top six as the marque's drivers made the most of a significant weight break compared to Mercedes and BMW.

Championship leader Wittmann did a fine job of damage limitation, bringing his Team RMG BMW M4 best of the non-Audis in seventh.

Wittmann made the most of a strong getaway to jump up ahead of Audi drivers Timo Scheider and Mattias Ekstrom and Mercedes' Felix Rosenqvist, and held station thereafter to pick up six points from 10th on the grid.

The German did however have his lead cut from 33 points to 14, with Sunday's second Hungaroring race and the two season-ending affairs at the Hockenheim to come.

Fresh from the announcement that

he would complete the season

with the ART Mercedes team, Rosenqvist claimed his best finish since replacing F1-bound Esteban Ocon at Moscow Raceway with eighth, ahead of Scheider.

Like Wittmann, Mercedes' title hopeful Robert Wickens made the most of a fast start to haul himself into the points in 10th, advancing from 17th on the grid.

RACE ONE RESULT

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Laps	Gap
1	Edoardo Mortara	Abt	Audi	26	42m20.736s
2	Jamie Green	Rosberg	Audi	26	1.090s
3	Miguel Molina	Abt	Audi	26	9.240s
4	Mike Rockenfeller	Phoenix	Audi	26	10.602s
5	Nico Muller	Abt	Audi	26	11.535s
6	Adrien Tambay	Rosberg	Audi	26	21.045s
7	Marco Wittmann	RMG	BMW	26	23.177s
8	Felix Rosenqvist	ART	Mercedes	26	24.729s
9	Timo Scheider	Phoenix	Audi	26	25.754s
10	Robert Wickens	HWA	Mercedes	26	26.916s
11	Daniel Juncadella	HWA	Mercedes	26	29.399s
12	Maxime Martin	RBM	BMW	26	32.843s
13	Tom Blomqvist	RBM	BMW	26	33.546s
14	Timo Glock	RMG	BMW	26	34.316s
15	Bruno Spengler	MTEK	BMW	26	36.197s
16	Lucas Auer	Mucke	Mercedes	26	37.259s
17	Antonio Felix da Costa	Schnitzer	BMW	26	44.405s
18	Christian Vietoris	Mucke	Mercedes	26	45.334s
19	Mattias Ekstrom	Abt	Audi	26	50.675s
20	Augusto Farfus	MTEK	BMW	26	53.287s
21	Gary Paffett	ART	Mercedes	26	54.002s
22	Martin Tomczyk	Schnitzer	BMW	26	54.939s
23	Maximilian Gotz	HWA	Mercedes	26	55.420s
-	Paul Di Resta	HWA	Mercedes	11	Retirement