Hungaroring DTM: Mortara leads all-Audi top six in Race 1

Starting from pole, Mortara had a better launch than Jamie Green and comfortably led the way by a second after just one lap.

Although Green closed the gap back to half a second, the Italian responded.

Even though the difference between the duo never grew bigger than 1.5s, Mortara crossed the line without having to defend his position.

Green secured his sixth podium finish in second with Miguel Molina completing the first all-Audi podium of the season.

Mike Rockenfeller secured his best finish of the season in fourth with Nico Muller and Adrien Tambay putting two more Audis into the top six.

Championship leader Marco Wittmann gained three places at the start to spend the race in seventh ahead of Felix Rosenqvist.

Timo Scheider and Robert Wickens took the final pointscoring positions, the Canadian slotting into the position on Lap 1 despite starting 18th.

Mattias Ekstrom became the only non-scoring Audi after he was sent into a spin by Martin Tomczyk at Turn 2, the German then being nudged by Maxime Martin to receive the same fate.

Paul Di Resta was the only retirement after sustaining damage following an outside move on him from Antonio Felix da Costa.

With three races to go, Mortara is 14 points behind Wittmann with Green and Wickens both standing with a mathematical chance.

UPDATE: Tom Blomqvist and Martin Tomczyk received 30-second time penalties.

Race 1 results

Cla	Driver	Car	Gap	Interval
1	Edoardo Mortara	Audi RS5 DTM
2	Jamie Green	Audi RS5 DTM	1.090	1.090
3	Miguel Molina	Audi RS5 DTM	9.240	8.150
4	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi RS5 DTM	10.602	1.362
5	Nico Müller	Audi RS5 DTM	11.535	0.933
6	Adrien Tambay	Audi RS5 DTM	21.045	9.510
7	Marco Wittmann	BMW M4 DTM	23.177	2.132
8	Felix Rosenqvist	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	24.729	1.552
9	Timo Scheider	Audi RS5 DTM	25.754	1.025
10	Robert Wickens	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	26.916	1.162
11	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	29.399	2.483
12	Maxime Martin	BMW M4 DTM	32.843	3.444
13	Timo Glock	BMW M4 DTM	34.316	0.770
14	Bruno Spengler	BMW M4 DTM	36.197	1.881
15	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	37.259	1.062
16	Antonio Felix da Costa	BMW M4 DTM	44.405	7.146
17	Christian Vietoris	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	45.334	0.929
18	Mattias Ekström	Audi RS5 DTM	50.675	5.341
19	Augusto Farfus	BMW M4 DTM	53.287	2.612
20	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	54.002	0.715
21	Maximilian Götz	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	55.420	0.481
22	Tom Blomqvist	BMW M4 DTM	33.546	0.703
23	Martin Tomczyk	BMW M4 DTM	54.939	0.937
	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	15 laps	15 laps