Most people expected the stewards to get involved after the DTM’s annual visit to the Norisring. But to the surprise of many it was fifth placed man Gary Paffett, not winner Jamie Green, who was penalised.
Paffett was disqualified from the final results. Did the stewards get the wrong British driver?

Mika Hakkinen took his second DTM victory of the year - but this time there’ll be no question of him being given half-points as he was at the Lausitzring.
In fact he probably deserve double points after cunning strategy propelled him into a lead which he narrowly held over Mattias Ekstrom in the dying stages.
But Bernd [...]

Bernd Schneider gave a typically virtuoso performance to win at Brands Hatch under intense pressure from the Audis of Martin Tomcyk and Mattias Ekstrom.
Schneider took the lead through some canny strategy and by being one of few drivers to successfully execute any passes. It saved him valuable time in traffic around the short Brands Hatch [...]

Paul di Resta’s lead in the DTM championship has been halved after reduced points were awarded for the Lausitzring race.
The German motor sport governing body felt that several drivers were disadvantaged by the mis-handling of the safety car period during the race.
The revised championship standings are as followed (previous score in brackets where relevant):

Mika Hakkinen took his second DTM victory after a chaotic race at the Lausitzring.
A safety car period in the middle of the race threw the running order up in the air but the Finnish twice World Champion prevailed.
Behind him an inspired Paul di Resta finished second to take the championship lead in his rookie season [...]

Gary Paffett took a magnificent win at Oschersleben in last year’s Mercedes C-Class.
If that weren’t surprising enough, team mate Paul di Resta now leads the title race in a 2005 Mercedes! He is tied at the top with Martin Tomcyk.
Oschersleben produced a massively different result to that seen at Hockenheim and leaves the title race [...]