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Maiden win for António Félix da Costa in Zandvoort race two

#13 António Félix da Costa, BMW M4 DTMAntónio Félix da Costa followed up his first pole position in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) with a maiden win at Zandvoort, finishing ahead of Augusto Farfus and Bruno Spengler as BMW finished 1-2-3-4-5.

BMW Team Schnitzer’s Da Costa scored a comfortable first win in the German series, finishing half a second ahead of Team RBM’s Farfus at the flag.

The Portuguese youngster had earlier got off to a strong start to lead the race early on, leading from Spengler up until the first round of pitstops. Farfus got the jump on Spengler in the pitlane on lap 12 to take second, making up for the podium he lost in Saturday’s first race.

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Timo Glock took the chequered flag in fourth, having got past BMW stable-mate Marco Wittmann and Audi’s Miguel Molina in the pit stop phase of the race.

Reigning champion Wittmann crossed the line in fifth to continue BMW’s dominance, which featured a historic top seven result on Saturday. The Team RMG driver did not have an easy race, however, as he made contact with Mercedes’ Lucas Auer on lap 16.

The bunching caused as Wittmann hit the Austrian also caught out Marco Tomczyk, who was running in 13th at the time. Tomczyk nudged the back of Molina’s Audi, who in turn was trying to take advantage of the slowed Wittmann. The result saw Tomczyk’s bonnet come loose and the damage put the former champion out of the race.

Pascal Wehrlein finished as the top Mercedes driver in sixth, ahead of the top Audi of Mattias Ekström in seventh, with the duo tied in second overall in the drivers’ championship, five points behind leader Jamie Green.

Audi’s Adrien Tambay scored his first points of the season in ninth, ahead of the Mercedes of Gary Paffett in tenth.

Another difficult race saw Green fail to finish in the points, with the Brit classified in 13th, having started down in 18th position. Fellow Brit Paul di Resta, who crashed out of Saturday’s first race, was a position behind in 14th.

Brit Tom Blomqvist finished 18th, having been hit with a drive-through penalty for causing a collision with Canadian Robert Wickens, who finished a place behind in 19th. Neither the BMW driver nor the Mercedes’ pilot had been battling for points at the time of the incident at turn one.

Audi’s Edoardo Mortara and Mercedes’ Daniel Juncadella failed to finish the race following contact on lap 21 at the high-speed Slotemakerbocht, resulting in suspension damage to Juncadella’s car.

The result sees Green remain at the lead of the championship standings, despite a point-less weekend for the Team Rosberg driver, with Wehrlein and Ekström tied for second.

Race result

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME/GAP BEST GD
1 13 António Félix da COSTA BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 39 1:02:07.601 1:33.872 1
2 18 Augusto FARFUS BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 39 0.473 1:33.694 3
3 7 Bruno SPENGLER BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 39 1.091 1:33.838 2
4 16 Timo GLOCK BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 39 1.71 1:33.635 7
5 1 Marco WITTMANN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 39 4.975 1:34.009 4
6 94 Pascal WEHRLEIN gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 10.954 1:33.857 6
7 5 Mattias EKSTRÖM Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 39 11.275 1:33.947 16
8 8 Christian VIETORIS gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 11.567 1:34.239 10
9 27 Adrien TAMBAY Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 39 11.91 1:34.126 17
10 2 Gary PAFFETT EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 12.247 1:33.728 9
11 99 Mike ROCKENFELLER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 39 12.661 1:34.164 19
12 17 Miguel MOLINA Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 39 15.13 1:33.932 5
13 53 Jamie GREEN Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 39 15.942 1:34.070 18
14 3 Paul di RESTA SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 16.456 1:34.090 23
15 10 Timo SCHEIDER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 39 16.853 1:34.027 22
16 84 Maximilian GÖTZ PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 18.319 1:34.144 14
17 36 Maxime MARTIN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 39 29.708 1:34.414 11
18 31 Tom BLOMQVIST BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 39 32.67 1:34.238 21
19 6 Robert WICKENS SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 52.235 1:34.253 15
20 22 Lucas AUER EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 39 52.818 1:34.625 24
R 51 Nico MÜLLER Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 31 8L 1:34.341 20
R 48 Edoardo MORTARA Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 21 18L 1:34.129 12
R 12 Daniel JUNCADELLA PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 21 18L 1:34.004 8
R 77 Martin TOMCZYK BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 16 23L 1:34.137 13

Complete race results

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