Bortolotti wins for Lamborghini at Oschersleben

Mirko Bortolotti and his TGI Team by GRT won Sunday's DTM Championship race in Oschersleben after an impressive driving display, coupled with tactical brilliance. The Italian started the race from sixth place and took the checkered flag as the winner 39 laps later for his first DTM success for almost two years and the first win for the new Lamborghini Temerario GT3.

"I am incredibly proud to have claimed the first victory in the world with the new Lamborghini Temerario and to do so in the strongest racing series in which the car is used," said Bortolotti. "I would like to dedicate this success to my injured teammate, Maximilian Paul. We had a super strategy, but I also had to make the difference on the track."

Championship leader Maro Engel (Mercedes-AMG Team Ravenol) was runner-up and extended his point lead while Thomas Preining (Manthey) took third place with his Porsche 911 GT3 R in front of 55,100 spectators.

Pole-sitter Preining initially controlled the Sunday race in Oschersleben, followed by Lamborghini driver Luca Engstler (Red Bull Team Abt) and Arjun Maini (HRT Ford Racing) in second and third place. Bortolotti and Engel were sixth and seventh at this point. Bortolotti was the last driver to come in for the first of the two mandatory pit stops – a tactic that paid dividends: the Italian returned to the track in second place, behind Preining and just ahead of Engel, who had also made up ground thanks to a fast tire change.

The spectators in the full grandstands were treated to some spectacular scenes during the second pit stop in Oschersleben, when the top three all came in for new Pirelli slicks at the same time. This time race leader Preining lost more than two seconds to his closest rivals, putting Bortolotti into the lead ahead of Engel. By the time he crossed the finish line, he had opened a comfortable gap of more than three seconds.

Behind runner-up Engel, Preining managed to hang on to third place, ahead of BMW driver Marco Wittmann (Schubert Motorsport), who pushed hard until the very end. Engstler was fifth in another Lamborghini Temerario GT3.

Maini took sixth place in a Ford Mustang GT3, while Kelvin van der Linde guided the second BMW M4 GT3 Evo of home team Schubert Motorsport to seventh. Ricardo Feller (Manthey) wound up in eighth place in a Porsche 911 GT3 R, ahead of Jules Gounon (Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter) in ninth. The best-placed Ferrari driver was Matteo Cairoli (I/Emil Frey Racing) in 10th place.

The DTM returns to action the weekend of Aug. 14-16 at the Nurburgring. Watch all DTM races live on the RACER+ App.

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