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The BMW M4 GT3 EVO is back on the top step. Marco Wittmann drove the #11 Schaeffler car to victory in Sunday’s DTM race at the Nürburgring. It was his first win of the season. It was also the twentieth of his DTM career. The two-time champion has waited a long while for this one.
The weekend built steadily. Wittmann qualified fourth on Saturday and sixth on Sunday. Neither slot was perfect. He turned both into points. Saturday brought third place and a podium. Sunday brought the lot. Schubert Motorsport nailed the strategy, and the crew delivered clean, quick stops. Wittmann did the rest at the wheel. His previous DTM win came at Zandvoort back in 2024, so the drought has run deep.
The finish was no cruise. Thomas Preining and Tom Kalender piled on pressure through the closing laps. Kalender had fresher rubber and genuine pace. Preining sat between the pair of them and acted as a buffer. Wittmann held his line and took the flag.
The points swing matters. He now sits fifth on 135 points, 25 adrift of the championship leader, with four races still to run. Schubert Motorsport holds third in the teams’ standings on 201 points, 30 off the top. A third drivers’ crown has gone from fanciful to plausible in a single weekend.
Kelvin van der Linde had the opposite Sunday. A technical fault ended his Saturday in the #3 Shell BMW M4 GT3 EVO. A start-line accident, none of it his doing, ended the second race as well. Two retirements, no points, and a season that refuses to break his way. BMW M Motorsport boss Andreas Roos called Wittmann a hot title contender and conceded the squad needed precisely this result after a rough run. Team principal Torsten Schubert put it more bluntly. The fight is alive again, if only just.
