Sheldon van der Linde is the 2022 DTM champion! The South African ends a six-year winless streak for BMW in the championship. Full Hockenheim race report and results:
Van der Linde arrived into the final race with a meagre two-point lead over Mercedes’ Lucas Auer and a 19-point advantage over departing Audi driver Rene Rast.
Van der Linde dropped to sixth place in his Schubert BMW on the opening lap, but capitalised on Audi duo Marius Zug and Dev Gore battling with each other to overtake both of them into one move into Turn 1. Auer was unable to make any in-roads into van der Linde’s lead in his second stint and was even repassed by the Rosberg Audi of Nico Muller, dropping back to seventh place.
It ended a six-year winless streak for BMW in Germany’s premier racing category, with the Munich-based brand having last won a championship in 2016 with Wittmann. Rast and Wittmann then made contact going into Turn 8 with the Audi driver sent wide over the run-off area, but Rast kept the foot on the throttle and finally completed the move into Turn 12.
Rast, hence, had to settle for second in his final race outing as an Audi driver, while van der Linde finished 10s behind the leading duo to secure the title.
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