Audi's Tim🅺o Scheider is adamant he k♔ept to the same braking point prior to making contact with Mercedes' Robert Wickens during yesterday's dramatic second DTM race at the Red Bull Ring.

The pair clashed when Scheider's RS 5 ran into the back of Wickens under braking for the tight right hander of turn three. The Audi driver has questioned whether the Canadian decelerated normally for the corner since the contact, which also took Pascal Wehrlein🔯 out of the race.

"Towards the end, two Mercedes drivers attacked me hard and overtook me. I braked on entering the ne🦹xt turn, as always, but the car in front of me apparently didn't, so I caught him [Wickens]," said Scheider✃.

The Team Phoenix driver has since been d♏isqualified from the result for his part in the collision while Audi havꩲe also been accused of issuing Scheider with an 'unsporting instruction' via a radio message from the pit-wall.

Scheide𓆉r has accepted his exclusion from the race but the case surrounding the radio transmission [schieb ihn raus] - delivered, amazingly by Audi boss Dr Wolfgang Ullrich - will be heard by the DMSB'⛦s court of appeal at a later date.

Audi argue that message wasn't a direct instruction but an ou𒈔tcry of emotion shouted by Ullrich in the heat of battle without releasing his radio was transmitti🥃ng to the car.

In ꦛany case, Scheider said he did not hear the call from Ullrich during the race.

"I didn't hear any instruction. Robert braked so hard that I ran into him. That was racing on the edge, something like that ཧcan happen."

The cry from the pit gantry came after Wickens and Pascal Wehrlein seemi💮ngly coordinated a shrewd piece of race-craft designed to move Wehrlein up into sixth in aid of championship aspirations.

Despite the contact, th🌄e former double champion clarified that it was not his intention to✤ slam into the back of Wickens and eliminate both Mercedes C63's out of the race.

"Both cars slipped off track afterwards was certainly not my intention," the 3🐽6-year old conti🌠nued.

"I'm very sorry for Robert (Wickens) and Pascal (Wehr꧅lein). I know exactly how you feel in a ✨situation like that. I have to accept the exclusion from the classification."