Overview
- Engel’s win at the Red Bull Ring on Sunday followed an undercut at the first stop that moved him past polesitter Kelvin van der Linde.
- The Mercedes driver started fifth and pulled clear after the second stop to finish ahead of Marco Wittmann and local favorite Lucas Auer.
- BMW’s late strategy call dropped van der Linde to sixth, and he said the team made the wrong choices.
- Wittmann climbed from ninth with an early first stop, and DTM’s GT3 format with two mandatory pit stops kept strategy front and center.
- The victory is Engel’s third in DTM and his first since 2023, and it gives him the championship lead at 44 points with Zandvoort next on May 22–24.