{"id":1010,"date":"2026-09-15T16:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:46:31","slug":"victory-at-the-sachsenring-ben-doerr-triumphs-in-second-dtm-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/victory-at-the-sachsenring-ben-doerr-triumphs-in-second-dtm-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory at the Sachsenring: Ben D\u00f6rr Triumphs in Second Race"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charge into the Points on Saturday<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DTM weekend at the Sachsenring started from a challenging position for Ben D\u00f6rr and Team D\u00f6rr Motorsport. In the first qualifying session, the 21-year-old McLaren Junior placed his number 25 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo 15th on the grid.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the first race, D\u00f6rr steadily gained ground on the track. He crossed the finish line in tenth position, 35.277 seconds behind the race winner, collecting six valuable championship points. Victory in Saturday&#8217;s race went to Marco Wittmann, with Jules Gounon in second and Thomas Preining finishing third.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Triumphant Success: First Place in Race 2<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Sunday, D\u00f6rr Motorsport underlined the strong pace of the McLaren 720S GT3 Evo. In the second qualifying session, Ben D\u00f6rr secured a strong starting spot by qualifying in fourth position.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting from the second row, D\u00f6rr claimed victory on the challenging track in Sunday&#8217;s race. With first place, he earned the maximum 25 championship points. Thomas Preining in second and Ricardo Feller in third completed the podium positions behind D\u00f6rr.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Championship Standings Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his third DTM season, Ben D\u00f6rr took away a total of 31 points from the Sachsenring weekend. In the drivers&#8217; standings, the 21-year-old sits in seventh place with 123 points. The championship is led by Thomas Preining with 197 points, followed by Maro Engel on 174 points and Marco Wittmann on 173 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a charge into the points on Saturday and a race victory on Sunday, McLaren Junior Ben D\u00f6rr celebrates a successful DTM weekend at the Sachsenring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dtm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}