DTM
NURBURGRING (DEU)
27-28 AUGUST
ROUND 5/8
If Mirko Bortolotti doesn’t win the 2022 DTM title, the inquest will surely point to the Grasser Lamborghini man’s weekend at the Nurburgring as a principal factor. The pre-event championship leader’s nine-point advantage became a 21-point deficit to Schubert BMW’s Sheldon van der Linde after he came away emptyhanded from a weekend when second and fifth were there for the taking. Bortolotti has been a study in consistency all year, fast everywhere, albeit without winning a race. But the desire to right that statistic proved his undoing.
Dense fog that caused Saturday’s qualifying session to be cancelled meant the grid was set
