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Jamie Green Wins Norisring Thriller

Jamie Green became only the second DTM driver to win a race in a one-year old spec car, as he took his AMG Mercedes C-Klasse to victory during this weekend's race at Norisring. The Briton denied Audi of their first win at the German circuit in more than 7 years after passing works driver Timo Scheider in the very penultimate lap of the race.

Most of the action took place in the third and last stint of the race, when great pit strategy got Green in 3rd place, behind leading duo Bruno Spengler and Timo Scheider. While the two drivers battled for supremacy with 5 laps remaining, Green waited for a mistake only seconds behind.

Spengler was the first to start the show, after grabbing the lead in the final corner of the Norisring. The Canadian driver failed to maintain the lead in the closing stages of the race, however, and his running wide in the very next corner allowed both Scheider and Green to get by.

With Spengler out of the way, Green started to put pressure on Scheider in the laps couple of laps. Green's first attempt to take the lead happened in Turn One of the penultimate lap, when the two cars went side by side out of the corner. The Brit managed to get the inside of it and entered Turn 2 holding the upper hand, before powering to the lead at the exit of the next corner.

From that point on, Green had no trouble maintaining the lead, while Scheider lost no less than 2 more positions to the chequered flag. Spengler got past Scheider in the same corner as Green, while 4th placed Mattias Ekstrom made a late effort to clinch 3rd spot in the very last lap of the race.

Gary Paffett, Ralf Schumacher and Paul di Resta was the Mercedes trio to follow the leading 4 at the finish line, while Audi's Tom Kristensen grabbed the last point from 8th place.

In the overall classification, Scheider leads from Spengler by a single point, with Paffett, Green and Ekstrom all sharing 3rd place, some 3 points behind.
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