Edoardo Mortara leads close Norisring practice

Edoardo Mortara headed the first DTM practice session at the Norisring where the top four drivers were covered within one tenth of a second.

Marco Wittmann was second fastest for BMW, 0.057 seconds behind, with Mattias Ekström making it two Audis in the top three, a further 0.033 seconds adrift.

Audi was in charge of the first session with four of the top five places, seeing Nico Müller in fourth and Adrien Tambay in fifth.

Fastest of the Mercedes drivers was Robert Wickens, setting a lap time of 49.002 that was 0.124 from the fastest time.

Next up is free practice two, starting at 09:15 CET tomorrow.