DTM radio scandal: “No one should buy an Audi next week” – THE WORLD

With the questionable radiogram “Timo, pushing him out” made Audi’s head of motorsport Wolfgang Ullrich on Sunday for a scandal in the DTM. In the last round pushed Audi driver Timo Scheider, Mercedes drivers Pascal Wehrlein and Robert Wickens from the track, just after the radio call of Ullrich. The three riders fought at this time to rank six, the Wehrlein would have been enough to defend his overall lead. But nothing came of it because Scheider paved the Siegesweg for his teammate Mattias Ekström. The Swede drove his 21st DTM win in his career.

Photo: AP Rendition was Pascal Wehrlein pushed from the Audi drivers Timo Scheider into the gravel

Scheider was excluded from the German Motor Sport Association from the vote because the stewards accused the 36-year-olds the intention. The two-time DTM Champion insisted to have not even heard the radio call, but to be Wickens moved inadvertently to the rear, because the latter had slowed down earlier in difficult visibility conditions, as was to be expected.

Audi released three hours after the race a written apology from motorsport director Ullrich: “It was definitely not an instruction to Timo I can only apologize to Mercedes for this saying such a statement does not express.. my understanding of Motorsport, but was due solely to the adrenaline in this moment. ” Really credible are all the statements if the facts do not.

DTM Mercedes boss Ulrich Fritz calls clear sign

The anger at the Mercedes-camp is certainly big huge. “If there was the radio message, then should the one who did that, never again on a race track must,” said Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff complained. And Mercedes DTM boss Ulrich Fritz is now demanding drastic consequences: “It’s all captured in words, sound and images There is a clear radio signal, ‘Timo pushing him out’ Shortly after you see two of our vehicles are in the gravel… Since one does not have much to say. “

Photo: picture alliance / dpa DTM Mercedes boss Ulrich Fritz demands a clear sign of the verdict against Audi

Fritz is now demanding punishment for the entire Audi camp held only for Scheider himself:. “We’ve got confidence in the Commissioners and the DMSB Just to give Timo Scheider a penalty, would be bound to short . Everything else must be left to the professionals. ” So that the scandal had no further effect on the DTM, Fritz expects a clear signal in this situation: “It must give a clear indication in the judgment, because such behavior can not be tolerated.”

” Nobody should next week Buy an Audi “

Even the victims of the radio message scandal, Pascal Wehrlein, does not think much of the dubious excuses and excuses from Audi. “If Audi wants to win the championship, then I’d say they have launched a major war today,” he told the Internet portal “autosport.com”: “I hope this has serious consequences Everyone should write about it and no one will come. week an Audi for sale. “

The frustration runs deep, because in the overall standings Wehrlein has now 17 points behind the leader Ekström, who at 111 points topped stands. The eleventh and twelfth round of the season takes place on the last weekend of August in Moscow, nor is Wehrlein within striking distance.

Photo: Bongarts / Getty Images Mercedes driver Pascal Wehrlein is his overall lead in the DTM first time going. He speaks of “war” and goes head-on Audi los

The DMSB began the investigation immediately after the race. The reasons why one Scheider took from the vote, reads clearly: “In the opinion of the stewards must be assumed due to the telemetry data and the present video recordings that the collision was caused deliberately.” On Timo Scheider and the entire Audi team therefore restless days.

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