Red Bull Ring DTM: Rast takes record fourth straight win

Rast started only eighth on the grid but had a superb start to leave the Remus curve already in fourth behind pole-sitter Gary Paffett, Nico Muller and Paul di Resta.

Muller took the lead on the exit of Remus on lap three which was then followed by Paffett attacking Muller but unable to make a move.

The order of the top four otherwise remained unchanged until Rast pitted on lap 17.

Di Resta followed suit a lap later but had to surrender third to Rast, who then also passed Paffett next time around after a poor stop for the Briton.

Rast then moved ahead of Muller soon afterwards and cruised to the finish, winning his fourth race in a row and closing the gap to the championship lead to 30 points ahead of the Hockenheim finale.

Muller took second as Paffett and di Resta battled for third, with the Scotsman managing to make a move shortly after their pitstops.

But Paffett was able to fight back this time around at Schlossgold and secured third, 2.2s ahead of di Resta, whose points lead is now down to just four.

Joel Eriksson and Pascal Wehrlein were fifth and sixth after the start and they kept their positions until the finish.

Timo Glock was investigated but escaped a penalty for forcing Edoardo Mortara off track to take seventh ahead of Mike Rockenfeller.

Mortara lost two places in his brief off-track excursion and then fell behind Philipp Eng on the last lap to finish 10th.

Daniel Juncadella was attacking Glock for seventh in the dying stages but went off at Remus, eventually settling for 11th.

Mercedes wildcard Sebastien Ogier had to make an additional pitstop to clean his windscreen and was 17th, a lap down.

After mechanical issues in qualifying, Lucas Auer also had to retire in the pits in the race as well, as Augusto Farfus stopped on track.

Race results:

Pos.	Driver	Car	Time/Gap
1	René Rast	Audi RS5 DTM	57'45.704
2	Nico Müller	Audi RS5 DTM	0.421
3	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	4.700
4	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	6.963
5	Joel Eriksson	BMW M4 DTM	10.889
6	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	14.709
7	Timo Glock	BMW M4 DTM	15.692
8	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi RS5 DTM	20.193
9	Philipp Eng	BMW M4 DTM	24.830
10	Edoardo Mortara	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	25.685
11	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	26.314
12	Jamie Green	Audi RS5 DTM	26.647
13	Robin Frijns	Audi RS5 DTM	36.841
14	Marco Wittmann	BMW M4 DTM	37.659
15	Bruno Spengler	BMW M4 DTM	38.013
16	Loic Duval	Audi RS5 DTM	38.336
17	Sébastien Ogier	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1 Lap
18	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	13 Laps
19	Augusto Farfus	BMW M4 DTM	25 Laps