The 19-year-old booked P2 on the grid in qualifying, just 0.04 seconds off pole. He successfully defended the position at the start of the race and subsequently put the leading Porsche driver Timo Bernhard under pressure as safety car deployments caused several restarts, but he was eventually unable to prevent a gap to the front opening up. After the mandatory driver change, his brother comfortably brought the Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi R8 LMS across the line in the runner-up spot.

"For us, the race was actually quite uneventful," said Sheldon van der Linde. "We started from second place and were able to maintain that for the whole race. We were unable to accomplish anything more today because the Porsche was simply too strong. But I’m still happy, because we’ve scored a lot of points."

Nicolai Sylvest and Kim-Luis Schramm registered their best result of the season so far in the Mercedes-AMG entered by Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing. Third-best Junior was BMW driver Mikkel Jensen, ably assisted by ex-DTM champion Timo Scheider; their BMW M6 GT3 finished fourth overall.

Porsche driver Jan-Erik Slooten won the Pirelli Trophy for amateurs for the third time this season, his previous two victories having come at Oschersleben and Zandvoort, "We are happy," said the driver and team manager of IronForce by RING POLICE. "Yesterday, we had a pretty chaotic day with a puncture and a damaged engine. In the circumstances, we are quite satisfied with today’s result. In the race, I got hit by Robert Renauer, but he’s already apologised. That was not a problem at all."