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Fraga and Preining triumph in crashfest

DTM

NORISRING (DEU)

2-3 JULY

ROUND 4/8

Felipe Fraga enjoyed a memorable 27th birthday at the Norisring last Sunday, when the Red Bull Ferrari driver captured his maiden DTM win from pole to end a run of five consecutive non-finishes. The latest of those had come in a chaotic Saturday race, when “I got a missile from behind” in the form of Esteban Muth’s Walkenhorst BMW, and in which only 11 cars finished to prompt extensive talk about driving standards. Through it all emerged Team Bernhard’s Thomas Preining to score Porsche’s first DTM win, leading Dennis Olsen’s SSR Performance example in a remarkable 1-2 for

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