Race two: Schneider takes win number six

Manuel Reuter inherited second after Alzen's indiscretion, and keeps the title battle going for at least one more race meeting.

Alzen took the lead at the rolling start, with Reuter drag-racing Schneider into the first corner and snicking ahead of the Mercedes. For six laps, Schneider stayed glued to Reuter's bumper, as Alzen pulled out a four-second lead over the pair. But at the very end of lap seven, Schneider dived down the inside of Reuter at the final corner and immediately began to take chunks out of Alzen's lead.

By the end of lap 10, the gap was down to just 0.3s and the pressure was beginning to tell. Alzen handled it until lap 14, when a half spin at the hairpin put the Opel down to fourth and Schneider into the lead.

Schneider had a moment of his own when he went onto the grass with just three of the 28 laps left to run, and Reuter closed to within 0.8s. But the points-leader was soon ekeing the gap out again and had recovered to lead by 3.6s at the flag.

Behind, Klaus Ludwig made the most of others misfortunes and finished on the podium, but in the early laps, he had Helary ahead of him and playing tail-gunner to Reuter until the Frenchman spun down the order to 10th.


(gaps shown are between cars)

Bernd Schneider, Mercedes, 28 laps
Manuel Reuter, Opel, +3.6s
Klaus Ludwig, Mercedes, +4.2s
Uwe Alzen, Opel, +1.8s
Michael Bartels, Opel, +2.4s
Peter Dumbreck, Mercedes, +0.4s
Marcel Tiemann, Mercedes, +3.3s
Thomas Jager, Mercedes, +1.0s
Timo Scheider, Opel, +7.1s
Eric Helary, Opel, +1.4s