Green takes another Norisring win

The Persson Mercedes driver inherited the lead in the early stages when pole-sitter Ralf Schumacher was penalised for a jump start. He pulled away from Bruno Spengler in the first half of the race, but then came under pressure from Ekstrom when the Swede moved into second during the final round of pitstops.

Green's advantage over the Audi had been as much as five seconds, but Ekstrom chipped away through the final stint and spent the last 14 laps within a second of the 2008-spec Mercedes.

The gap got as low as half a second, but Green was able to stay far enough ahead that Ekstrom was unable to launch an attack.

Championship leader Spengler was catching both of them towards the end, but there was not enough time for the Canadian to join the battle and he had to settle for third.

Behind them, Oliver Jarvis scored his first points of the season with a solid fourth, while Timo Scheider took fifth after jumping Gary Paffett in the second round of pitstops.

Alexandre Premat and Martin Tomczyk completed the points, after both had tricky first laps. Tomczyk's car bogged down badly from fourth on the grid, dropping him to 13th, while Premat was briefly investigated by the stewards after he spun Paul di Resta at Turn 2.

Pos  Driver             Car           Time/Gap
 1.  Jamie Green        Mercedes  1h08m05.282s
 2.  Mattias Ekstrom    Audi          + 0.591s
 3.  Bruno Spengler     Mercedes      + 1.910s
 4.  Oliver Jarvis      Audi          + 9.946s
 5.  Timo Scheider      Audi         + 12.315s
 6.  Gary Paffett       Mercedes     + 14.521s
 7.  Alexandre Premat   Audi         + 15.834s
 8.  Martin Tomczyk     Audi         + 16.100s
 9.  Maro Engel         Mercedes     + 22.154s
10.  Paul di Resta      Mercedes     + 31.536s
11.  Ralf Schumacher    Mercedes     + 31.979s
12.  Mike Rockenfeller  Audi         + 34.790s
13.  David Coulthard    Mercedes     + 35.751s
14.  Franky Cheng       Mercedes       + 1 lap
15.  Susie Stoddart     Mercedes       + 1 lap
16.  Katherine Legge    Audi           + 1 lap

Retirements:

     Miguel Molina      Audi      29 laps
     Markus Winkelhock  Audi      16 laps