At the DTM’s Italian round, Audi defended its overall lead. Although scoring no points at Mugello after a jump start, Audi driver Timo Scheider continues heading the leaderboard. Tom Kristensen clinched third place for Audi in an action-packed race.

A total of five A4 DTM cars finished in the top eight, and thus in the points. Youngster Oliver Jarvis scored the first points of his young DTM career finishing fifth.

Mugello (I), 4 May, DTM round 3 1 Jamie Green (Mercedes) 33 laps in 59m 39.961s 2 Paul di Resta (Mercedes) + 3.166s3 Tom Kristensen (Audi A4 DTM) + 5.313s 4 Bernd Schneider (Mercedes) + 9.410s 5 Oliver Jarvis (Best Buddies Audi A4 DTM) + 15.037s 6 Mattias Ekström (Red Bull Audi A4 DTM) + 15.798s 7 Markus Winkelhock (Playboy Audi A4 DTM) + 16.989s 8 Alexandre Prémat (Audi Bank/Shell Helix Audi A4 DTM) + 22.656s ... 10 Timo Scheider (GW:plus/Top Service Audi A4 DTM) + 23.774s 13 Christijan Albers (Audi A4 DTM) + 45.259s14 Mike Rockenfeller (S line Audi A4 DTM) + 55.234s 17 Martin Tomczyk (Red Bull Audi A4 DTM) + 1m 13.944s 18 Katherine Legge (Audi A4 DTM) + 1m 16.587s

Positions after 3 of 11 rounds: 1 Scheider, 18 points; 2 Green 17; 3 Ekström, 14; 4 Di Resta, 13; 5 Tomczyk and Kristensen, 12; ... 9 Winkelhock, 5; 10 Jarvis, 4; 11 Rockenfeller, 2; 13 Prémat, 1.

Next race: EuroSpeedway Lausitz (D), 18 May