Reigning DTM champ💛ion Rene Rast has taken his se🅠cond victory of the 2018 season for Audi after beating BMW's Bruno Spengler to the race one win at the Nurburgring.

The Audi RS 5 driver took the win by just under a second ahead of Team RBM's Spengler after starting the opening race𒀰 from pole position.

Rast's second win of the season has moved the Team Rosberg driver back up into the top-fiv♔e of the DTM drivers' standings, albeit 73-points behind new leader Gary Paffett.

Paffett took the fin♛al podium position in third to reclaim the DTM points lead ahead of his Mercedes team mate Paul di Resta, who suffered contact early in the race and finished out of the points paying positions in last, as a result.

Just eight points separate the two former champions, while fe𒉰llow Mercedes driver Edoardo Mortara sits a further 56-points back from Paf✱fett in third.

Forme💯r F1-star Timo Glock finished just 0.4 adrift of Paffett's podium position in fourth, whi♊le Marco Wittmann completed the top-five order for BMW in fifth.

Pascal Wehrlein was the next best placed💧 Mercedes driver in seventh, 🐟marginally ahead of Loic Duval in eighth for Audi.

Au💫gust🐽o Farfus and Nico Muller completed the remainder of the points paying positions in ninth and tenth.