Sheldon van der Linde is the 2022 DTM champion! He took a third-place finish in the championship finale at Hockenheim, as Marco Wittmann scored his first win of the year. Full Race 2 report ⬇️
Further down the pack, Auer quickly propelled his Winward Mercedes inside the top 10 after a truncated qualifying had left him down in 11th place on the grid, but he was still too far behind van der Linde to overhaul him in the championship.
Auer was unable to make any in-roads into van der Linde’s lead in his second stint and was even repassed by the Rosberg Audi of Nico Muller, dropping back to seventh place.tumbled down the order with a puncture, moving him further clear of Auer in the championship standings. It ended a six-year winless streak for BMW in Germany’s premier racing category, with the Munich-based brand having last won a championship in 2016 with Wittmann.
Having stopped for fresh tyres a lap clear of the Walkenhorst driver, Rast was able to rapidly close in on him and sent his car up the inside into Turn 6, with the two drivers running side-by-side into the following right-hander.
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