Cairoli came to Norisring as the leader of the championship, leaving but disappointed
The collision between Matteo Cairoli and Marco Mapelli was one of the great surprises of the second DTM race on Norisring. The Lamborghini Horseman hit his Ferrari from behind while braking to the first corner, thus taking him out of the race.
After two wins in Zandvoort and Lausitzring, Italian came to Nuremberg as leader of the order, but after the weekend it is now fourth in total, 34 points behind the new leader Nicki Thiim in Aston Martin.
"I can accept if I don't finish the race because it's my fault because of my mistake. But being eliminated like that is not the way I want to race."
At the time of the incident, all the drivers had dry tyres, although shortly after the start the heavy rain began.
"When the track is wet, you have to follow the cars in front of you more. I think the rider just came to me because he thought it was dry," he complained about Cairov, who drove into the barriers after contact.
"I had two contacts at the DTM this year, two contacts with the same driver," the driver Emil Frey attacks his opponent Mapelli and makes it clear, "I think that's enough."
Both Italians met in Zandvoort when Mapelli passed Cairoli's Ferrari in the first corner shortly before the end of the second race, pushed him off the track at the exit from the corner and even received a warning.
"I don't know what the reason is, but I can say that the only two contacts I had this year were with him," adds the racer for motorsports-total.de.
After assessing the video recordings and hearing the two drivers, the Commissioners concluded that Mapelli "misjudged the brake point" and thus caused an accident. For the next race in Oschersleben, the driver of the Abt stable will be moved three places back to the starting grid.