Antonio Felix da Costa claimed his maiden DTM victory with a lights-to-flag drive at Zandvoort.

The single seater convert made no mistakes from pole position as he opened up an early lead which he maintained once the mandatory pit stops were completed.

RBM’s Augusto Farfus applied pressure on the Portuguese driver in the second half of the race, but the Brazilian was unable to prevent the Red Bull Formula 1 reserve from taking the victory.

Farfus finished 0.4s adrift in second with the MTEK BMW of Bruno Spengler third.

BMW emerged as the manufacturer to beat with the Munich firm filling the top five positions.

Mercedes’ Pascal Wehrlein and Audi’s Mattias Ekstrom were the best of the rest in sixth and seventh.

Reigning champion Marco Wittmann made the most of a strong start to clinch his first win of the season in Race 1.

Wittmann, who started from second on the grid, quickly grabbed the lead from polesitter Farfus on the run to Turn 1.

The RMG BMW driver was shadowed by da Costa for the entire race with just 0.4s separating the pair at the flag.

Maxime Martin secured the final place on the podium as BMW occupied the top seven positions.

Audi’s Jamie Green leads the championship by five points from Ekstrom and Wehrlein.

Formula Renault 3.5

Oliver Rowland and Matthieu Vaxiviere shared the victories in the latest round of the Formula Renault 3.5 Championship at the Red Bull Ring.

Rowland dominated the opening race as he led every lap on his way to taking the chequered flag from DAMS duo Dean Stoneman and McLaren protege Nyck De Vries.

The race ended in bizarre circumstances when Nicholas Latifi collided with Roberto Merhi on the run to the finish line.

Merhi appeared to be travelling unusually slowly which caught out Latifi, who was pitched into a violent series of barrel rolls.

Both drivers escaped the frightening incident unscathed although stewards decided to exclude Merhi from the meeting for causing the crash.

After finishing sixth in Race 1, Vaxiviere was involved in a wheel-to-wheel battle with Rowland for much of Race 2 before taking the chequered flag by 4.1s, with Roy Nissany in third.

Rowland’s advantage over Vaxiviere at the top of the standings is 26 points.

WTCC

Citroen dominated the eighth round of the World Touring Car Championship on the Vila Real streets in Portugal.

Reigning world champion Jose Maria Lopez took the honours in Race 1 as he led team-mate Sebastien Loeb home with the pair split by just 1.5s.

Zengo Honda driver Norbert Michelisz managed to fend off the factory Honda Civic Type Rs of Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro to finish third.

Citroen’s Ma Qing Hua claimed his first victory of the season in a shortened second race.

The Chinese driver took the flag after 11 laps when a heavy crash involving Lada’s Nick Catsburg triggered the red flags.

Yvan Muller made it two Citroens on the podium in second with Honda’s Tarquini in third.

The race saw the introduction of the Safety Car on the opening lap due to a multiple car accident, which saw Monteiro, Jaap van Lagen and Stefano D’Aste retire.

FIA European F3 Championship

Antonio Giovinazzi, Felix Rosenqvist and Markus Pommer were victorious in the seventh round of the FIA European Formula 3 Championship.

Giovinazzi held off Rosenqvist to win a hard fought opening encounter by 1.1s, with Pommer a distant third.

The roles were reversed in the second race as Prema Powerteam’s Rosenqvist took the chequered flag from Giovinazzi with a comfortable 3.1s margin.

Britain’s Jake Dennis came home in third but a jump start saw him hit with a suspended grid penalty ahead of the final race.

Pommer came through a Safety Car punctuated Race 3 to take his maiden FIA European Formula 3 victory in the final encounter.

Despite three Safety Car periods, Pommer held his nerve to lead home Giovanazzi and Resenqvist.

Just 7.5 points separate championship leader Giovinazzi and Charles Leclerc in the series standings.

Italian GT Championship

Australian Aidan Wright scored two fifth place finishes in the Round 4 of the Italian GT Championship.

The 20-year-old from Cairns partnered Italian Franciso Mora in a Mercedes SLS at Mugello.

“I am extremely proud of the job that we did over the weekend,” said Wright.

“Our stints were flawless; our pit stops were precise, the mechanics worked extremely hard and the car didn’t fault us once. This is the result we needed.”