BMW DTM has once again dominated the race at Assen

In Sunday’s race at Assen (NED), a momentous win happened for Sheldon van der Linde (RSA, Shell BMW M4 DTM) – it was the first DTM win of his carrer and the first DTM win for a South African. Despite the rain and difficult track conditions, the BMW Team RBM driver has managed to flawlessly advance into the race. With a perfect team strategy, they were able to move up from 14^th on the grid to P1.

Timo Glock (GER, iQOO BMW M4 DTM), Marco Wittmann (GER, Schaeffler BMW M4 DTM), Philipp Eng (AUT, ZF BMW M4 DTM) and Lucas Auer (AUT, BMW Bank M4 DTM) also did great in spite of the situation and succeeded to get in the top ten.

Just after the dry qualifying round, heavy rain started to pour in shortly before the race has begun. As the rain eased off in the first half, Glock commenced in an extraordinary pace to gain positions with sharp overtaking manoeuvres, allowing him to move up into second place. On the other hand, Van der Linde had an early compulsory pit stop and subsequently owned a clear run which moved him up into the lead as his rivals made later pit stops.

An accident and heavy rain setting in again interrupted the race temporarily. On the restart, van der Linde held on to his top-spot commandingly and brought the win home. Jonathan Aberdein (RSA, CATL BMW M4 DTM) was the highest qualifying BMW driver in sixth, but was unable to keep up with the pace at the front in the rain and ended up finishing in .

Due to heavy rain setting in again and an accident, the race was temporarily interrupted. Upon restart, van der Linde retained his top-spot and brought the win home. Whereas, Jonathan Aberdein (RSA, CATL BMW M4 DTM) who was the highest qualifying BMW driver in sixth, was unable to maintain its pace at the front in the rain, completed the race in the 13^th place.