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Mercedes-AMG Wins Rain-Filled DTM Race at Oschersleben

After yet another disappointing performance in qualifying at Oschersleben, the speed-lacking Mercedes-AMG C-Coupe of Christian Vietoris took him to the finish line in none other than first place, as the rain-filled race equalized the performance of all cars on the grid.
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In front of no less than 65,000 spectators, yesterday's Oschersleben DTM race provided all viewers with quite a lot of heart-attack moments, most of them happening because of difficult and changeable weather conditions.

Christian Vietoris' maiden win in his 34th race was made even more outstanding by the fact that the former Mercedes Junior had started from 16th position, therefore managing to gain no less than 15 places throughout the 44 completed laps.

Speaking of which, due to the three safety car periods and very difficult weather conditions, the race was stopped after the maximum race time of 75 minutes, with the cars completing just 44 laps out 51.

Christian Vietoris: “My first DTM victory! To have secured it under such difficult circumstances and in such an eventful race is simply incredible. I’m absolutely delighted. We had been hoping for rain because our pace in the dry still isn’t good enough. A wet weather race was our only chance of challenging for the win today, and we exploited this opportunity to the full. My team did a fantastic job today with the pit stops and strategy – this victory belongs to everyone in the crew. All the same, we need to keep our feet firmly planted on the ground. We are fully aware that we have to raise our performance under normal race conditions, and we’ll be going about that very systematically in the coming weeks.”

Thanks to Christian Vietoris' win, Paul Di Resta's fourth place and Gary Paffett's eight place, the Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG team is now in second place in the team championship, a single point behind Audi Sport Team Phoenix, while Vietoris himself is just five points behind Driver's Championship leader Mike Rockenfeller, from Audi.

Despite the good amount of points gathered at Oschersleben, pretty much the entire Mercedes-AMG DTM team is well aware of the drastically-low level of performance compared with both Audi and BMW in uneventful and dry races, so they must definitely catch up from that point of view until the next race in Hungary.
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Alex handled his first real steering wheel at the age of five (on a field) and started practicing "Scandinavian Flicks" at 14 (on non-public gravel roads). Following his time at the University of Journalism, he landed his first real job at the local franchise of Top Gear magazine a few years before Mircea (Panait). Not long after, Alex entered the New Media realm with the autoevolution.com project.
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