Feller Converts Pole to Victory in Zandvoort Race 2

Ricardo Feller took a lights-to-flag victory in the Sunday DTM race at Zandvoort.

The Swiss driver converted pole position to victory aboard the No. 7 ABT Sportsline Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II, finishing 3 seconds clear of the No. 91 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Thomas Preining.

Feller led the field into the first corner and kept the race lead, after which he ran a clean race and cruised to the second DTM victory of his career.

The 23-year-old captured his maiden win during the Sunday race at Imola last year.

Preining finished second after running much of the opening half of the race in third place, losing out in a first-lap battle with the No. 48 Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo driven by Saturday race winner Maro Engel.

Engel passed Preining into the first corner, but the German fell to fifth on his out lap following his mandatory pitstop behind by Preining, Luca Stolz and Marco Wittmann.

Stolz completed the podium in third place, but withstood pressure from Wittmann throughout the final 30 minutes.

The No. 4 Mercedes-AMG and the No. 11 Team Project 1 BMW M4 GT3 were separated by just 0.249 seconds at the checkered flag.

Engel finished fifth, ahead of the No. 3 ABT Sportsline Audi driven by Kelvin van der Linde and KÜS Team Bernhard’s Ayhancan Guven.

Patric Niederhauser finished eighth behind the wheel of the No. 83 Tresor Orange 1 Audi.

The German saw a potential top five finish fall away after serving a penalty lap for an unsafe release involving Van der Linde’s No. 3 Audi.

Dennis Olsen and Sheldon van der Linde completed the top ten, ahead of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart.

Mattia Drudi, Franck Perera and Luca Engstler rounded out the top fifteen and were classified as the final points scorers.

RESULTS: Race 2