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Spengler denies di Resta at Lausitz

Bruno Spengler took advantage of misfortune in the pits for Paul di Resta to take victory in the DTM race at Lausitz on Sunday

The pair had comfortably led the race throughout, with polesitter di Resta edging away from his team-mate early on before holding the gap at around three seconds.

Spengler appeared to have no answer to the Scot, but he was handed the lead when di Resta was delayed in his second stop by a problem with the left-rear wheel.

The Canadian pushed while he had clear track to jump di Resta, and then pulled away in the final stint to take his first win since the Norisring in 2007.

Di Resta's charge then faded towards the end, while behind the pair of 2009-spec Mercedes, Jamie Green was a close third after another impressive drive in his older-spec car.

The British driver had grabbed the place at the start from Mattias Ekstrom, who made a poor getaway and then hit more trouble when he was tagged into a spin at Turn 5 by Alexandre Premat.

The Swede's spinning Audi was then hit by Timo Scheider and David Coulthard. While Scheider rejoined after a pitstop, Ekstrom and Coulthard's races were run due to excessive damage.

The first lap commotion enabled Mike Rockenfeller into fourth, and the German spent the race of the race keeping Gary Paffett at bay, before pulling clear of the Mercedes driver in the final stint.

Behind Paffett, Martin Tomczyk took sixth, but the German was chased home by Susie Stoddart, who took her first ever points finish in the DTM with an strong seventh.

The Scot had benefited from the first lap chaos to jump from 12th on the first lap, but after that she kept Tomczyk in sight throughout, and was able to maintain a solid gap to Scheider once he began to come back through the field.

Pos Driver              Car               Time/Gap
 1. Bruno Spengler      Mercedes      1h12m32.740s
 2. Paul di Resta       Mercedes            +4.542
 3. Jamie Green         Mercedes            +5.323
 4. Mike Rockenfeller   Audi                +8.350
 5. Gary Paffett        Mercedes           +12.358
 6. Martin Tomczyk      Audi               +15.288
 7. Susie Stoddart      Mercedes           +17.105
 8. Timo Scheider       Audi               +26.430
 9. Ralf Schumacher     Mercedes           +34.533
10. Markus Winkelhock   Audi               +42.619
11. Oliver Jarvis       Audi               +47.559
12. Franky Cheng        Mercedes           +48.718
13. Miguel Molina       Audi             +1:02.319
14. Katherine Legge     Audi             +1:13.593
15. Maro Engel          Mercedes         +1:17.396

Not classified

    David Coulthard     Mercedes            3 laps
    Mattias Ekstrom     Audi                 1 lap
    Alexandre Premat    Audi                0 laps

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