{"id":700,"date":"2026-05-25T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/p2-in-zandvoort-first-dtm-podium-and-a-piece-of-mclaren-history\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:18:58","slug":"p2-in-zandvoort-first-dtm-podium-and-a-piece-of-mclaren-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/p2-in-zandvoort-first-dtm-podium-and-a-piece-of-mclaren-history\/","title":{"rendered":"P2 in Zandvoort: First DTM podium \u2014 and a piece of McLaren history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This moment now has its own line in the DTM history books: On May 24, 2026, Ben D\u00f6rr crossed the line in Zandvoort in second place \u2014 his first DTM podium and, at the same time, <strong>the first podium for McLaren in DTM history<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A weekend on level terms with the best<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday\u2019s race in the dunes was already strong: fifth place and 11 points. On Sunday, it then became historic \u2014 and that despite a moment of alarm: At the first pit stop, a wheel nut jammed and cost valuable time. Ben kept his cool, regained the position on track, and brought the No. 25 McLaren 720S GT3 Evo home in second \u2014 behind winner Kelvin van der Linde and ahead of record champion Marco Wittmann.  <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">P6 in the championship<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 42 points after four of 16 races, Ben is sixth in the drivers\u2019 standings as the best McLaren driver. Next up is the Lausitzring from June 19 to 21. <\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zandvoort result<\/h3>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Race 1: <strong>P5<\/strong><\/li><li>Race 2: <strong>P2<\/strong> \u2014 first DTM podium, first McLaren podium in DTM history<\/li><li>Drivers\u2019 standings afterwards: <strong>P6<\/strong> (42 points)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Data: DTM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second place in Zandvoort: Ben D\u00f6rr\u2019s first DTM podium is also the first McLaren podium in DTM history \u2014 despite a sticking wheel nut at the first stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","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\/700","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendoerr-racing.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}