How could this happen? The decision by race control to call a Full Course Yellow shortly after Marco Mapelli, Ben Dorr, and Ricardo Feller entered the pit lane propelled the trio to the front - and robbed Nicki Thiim of his first Aston Martin victory in the DTM at the Lausitzring on Saturday. It brought back memories of Oschersleben 2024, when an unfortunate FCY phase moved Marco Wittmann from 17th to the lead and caused a stir.
This time, the trigger was Timo Glock, who parked his broken McLaren on the track, causing race director Sven Stoppe to call for 80 km/h across the entire circuit. As a result, the drivers in the pit lane lost hardly any time, as the speed limit in the pits is 60 km/h.
