BMW Bagged Two Wins at the Red Bull Ring Race Weekend

What a perfect race weekend for BMW on the Red Bull Ring with two wins for the two races! Timo Glock (DE) celebrated the third win of his career at the DTM race in Spielberg. This is a great follow up to Marco Wittmann’s (DE) 70th win in BMW’s 250th DTM race just a day before that.

Glock started the race at the Red Bull Ring in third but quickly took the lead with the DEUTSCHE POST BMW M4 DTM. Five other BMW drivers also made it into the points. Augusto Farfus (BR) finished in fourth place in the Shell BMW M4 DTM. Right behind him, Maxime Martin (BE, SAMSUNG BMW M4 DTM) and Tom Blomqvist (GB, Ice-Watch BMW M4 DTM) finished in fifth and sixth. On the day after his Saturday victory in the Red Bull BMW M4 DTM, Wittmann finished seventh. Bruno Spengler (CA) finished in ninth place in the BMW Bank M4 DTM.

Among the unlucky ones are António Félix da Costa (PT) who was involved in an accident that took him out of the race, thus finishing in 21st place and Martin Tomczyk (DE, BMW M Performance M4 DTM) who finished in 19th.

The reactions to the fourth race of the 2016 DTM season was very positive. Jens Marquardt, BMW Motorsport Director, says: “That was a very strong race by Timo. We had just the right strategy against the strong competition from Audi. It proved to be a very good decision to bring Timo in for an early pit stop. Mattias Ekström came on very strong again, but in the end it was enough. It was a perfect weekend for BMW Team RMG, getting the wins in both races. My congratulations on this outstanding achievement, and well done to all the other BMW drivers who finished in the points. They all did a fantastic job. Overall I am very happy with this weekend. As is so often the case, it was worth coming to Spielberg.”

Timo Glock (BMW Team RMG, 1st place), the man of the hour said: “This race was a dream. It couldn’t have gone any better. I was able to pull away on the initial laps and then assert my lead after that. After the minor error in qualifying and the misfortune in Hockenheim, this was very satisfying, and BMW Team RMG had a perfect weekend with the wins for Marco and me. This makes me really happy. In general, it was a magnificent weekend for BMW.”