Edoardo Mortara heads Audi 1-2-3 at Zandvoort

Edoardo Mortara headed an Audi triple at Zandvoort in a race which proved to be eventful. The Italian won the race ahead of Mike Rockenfeller and Mattias Ekström, marking the best race of 2012 for Audi.

Mortara took the lead from Rockenfeller with some contact in a late launch in to the first corner towards the end of the race. A short rain shower had hit the track earlier, causing drama for the drivers on slick tyres.

Gary Paffett was one of the drivers being affected of the shower. The championship leader had climbed in the field and was chasing Mattias Ekström for third as they came in to the first corner where most of the rain had hit the track.

Paffett seemed to brake too late on the wet track, but behind him was Martin Tomczyk who braked even later and the both clashed. Tomczyk had to retire from the damage while Paffett spun and lost several positions to finish seventh in the end.

Paffett had to fight his way past Dirk Werner, Ralf Schumacher and Augusto Farfus Jr. The four drivers became involved in a tough fight, with Farfus and Schumacher clashing and taking revenge on each other. Farfus was really upset, as heard through the team radio, on both Paffett and Schumacher’s pass on him. And the BMW driver decided to get even on Schumacher, pushing him off track, but still finished behind him in tenth.

Jamie Green was best Mercedes driver in fourth ahead of Adrien Tambay and best BMW driver Bruno Spengler in sixth.

Pole position man Timo Scheider had a tough day as he first stalled in the start, rejoined the field last only to retire from body damage a bit later in to the race.

Paffett still holds the championship lead after Zandvoort, but has had it reduced to 16 points over team mate Green and 18 points to Spengler in third of the drivers championship. Three races remain of 2012 with the next one being held at Oschersleben on the 16th of September.