Edoardo Mortara frustrated with Timo Glock after Nürburgring tussle

Audi Sport Abt’s Edoardo Mortara and BMW Team MTEK driver Timo Glock had a coming together on lap 28 in the second race at the Nürburgring, which saw Glock handed a drive-through and Mortara out with damage, seeing the gap to points leader Pascal Wehrlein lengthen in the process.

After struggles in the warm-up and during qualifying, Mortara, who had finished second in the first race on Sunday, had qualified in a lowly 20th position, but was making his way up the order when he and Mattias Ekström became stuck behind the yellow BMW.

“When you start 20th you don’t expect anything special, and up to the contact I had with Timo I’d already moved up seven or eight places,” said Mortara to TouringCarTimes. “I think it’s very disappointing where you get to a point where he’s fighting his life for 12th position. I agree he doesn’t have to let me go, but there’s a certain limit to limit to moving aggressively in the straights. He was doing it with Ekky for ten laps, anyway, we had contact and that effectively finished his race and my race.”

Timo Glock didn’t see any reason why he shouldn’t fight for the position, and puts down his contact with Mortara as a misjudgement rather than retaliation for Mortara’s nudge to get by.

“I had a really nice fight with Ekky (Mattias Ekström) for a long time in the race,” explained Glock to TouringCarTimes. “As I had no DRS I was just defending, then Ekky overtook me, and then I had Mortara behind me and he just drove into my car in Turn 2. Unfortunately I was a bit late on the brakes into Turn 3 and I touched him and he spun around. It was clear I got a penalty, it was the right decision from the race director.”