Results from the weeeknd DTM race at the Hockenheimring in Germany

Pos. Driver / Entrant Laps Time Gap

1. Mattias Ekström
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
Red Bull Audi A4 DTM 37 59:17.726 59:17.726
2. Timo Scheider
Audi Sport Team Abt
GW:plus / Top Service Audi A4 DTM 37 59:18.550 00.824
3. Tom Kristensen
Audi Sport Team Abt
Audi A4 DTM 37 59:37.330 19.604
4. Bruno Spengler
Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG
Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Klasse 37 59:38.598 20.872
5. Martin Tomczyk
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
Red Bull Audi A4 DTM 37 59:38.995 21.269
6. Jamie Green
Salzgitter AMG Mercedes
Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 59:50.745 33.019
7. Gary Paffett
stern AMG Mercedes
stern AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 59:51.682 33.956
8. Bernd Schneider
Original-Teile AMG Mercedes
Original-Teile AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 59:52.452 34.726
9. Oliver Jarvis
Audi Sport Team Phoenix
Best Buddies Audi A4 DTM 37 59:57.996 40.270
10. Mike Rockenfeller
Audi Sport Team Rosberg
S line Audi A4 DTM 37 59:59.524 41.798
11. Alexandre Prémat
Audi Sport Team Phoenix
Audi Bank / Shell Helix Audi A4 DTM 37 1:00:04.065 46.339
12. Markus Winkelhock
Audi Sport Team Rosberg
Playboy Audi A4 DTM 37 1:00:04.676 46.950
13. Paul di Resta
AMG Mercedes
AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 1:00:05.593 47.867
14. Ralf Schumacher
TRILUX AMG Mercedes
TRILUX AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 1:00:07.599 49.873
15. Mathias Lauda
Pixum AMG Mercedes
Pixum AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 1:00:14.034 56.308
16. Susie Stoddart
TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes
TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 1:00:21.550 1:03.824
17. Maro Engel
JungeSterne AMG Mercedes
JungeSterne AMG Mercedes C-Klasse 37 1:00:22.887 1:05.161
18. Katherine Legge
Futurecom-TME
Audi A4 DTM 37 1:00:51.395 1:33.669

Did Not Finish

Christijan Albers
Futurecom-TME
Audi A4 DTM 3 5:51.833 34 laps

Drivers Championship

1 Ekström 10
2 Scheider 8
3 Kristensen 6
4 Spengler 5
5 Tomczyk 4
6 Green 3
7 Paffett 2
8 Schneider 1
9 Jarvis
10 Rockenfeller
11 Prémat
12 Winkelhock
13 Di Resta
14 Schumacher
15 Lauda
16 Stoddart
17 Engel
18 Legge
19 Albers

Teams Championship

1. Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline 14
2. Audi Sport Team Abt 14
3. Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG Mercedes 5
4. Salzgitter/Original-Teile AMG Mercedes 4
5. stern/Pixum AMG Mercedes 2

Mattias Ekstrom made a perfect start to his title defence by winning the opwening round in the 2008 DTM series....

Ralf Schuamcher finished 14th in his 1st race

all 18cars that finished the race where on the lead lap with only 1 DNF not bad for the 1st race of the season....