Due to the performance-weight regulations, Mattias Ekström’s Audi RS 5 DTM already was the heaviest car on the Spielberg grid. No handicap for the Swede: having finished fifth on Saturday, he won the Sunday race at the Red Bull Ring, thus securing the drivers’ championship lead. These successes, however, had the result that he will have to contest the next race meeting with additional 10 kilos of performance weight aboard his vehicle. With 1137.5 kilograms, Ekström once again will race the heaviest car when DTM contests its Moscow meeting from 28^th to 30^th August. And while nearly all the Audi drivers will have to cope with a high extra load, on the sixth race weekend of the season, the BMW drivers will contest the races at the Moscow raceway with comparably extremely light vehicles.

So, the BMWs enjoy a clear weight advantage, at Moscow, with all the eight drivers holding positions at the end of the weight table. The vehicles of Marco Wittmann, António Félix da Costa and Augusto Farfus will be full 30kg lighter than Ekström’s Audi and the weight of the cars of their fellow BMW drivers even will be another 2.5kg lower and will weigh just 1105.5kg. The heaviest Mercedes-Benz at Moscow will be the one of Pascal Wehrlein. His Mercedes-AMG C 63 will roll on the grid with a weight of 1127.5kg while Maximilian Götz will race the lightest car of the Mercedes-Benz camp (1120kg).