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Summary
Triple World Touring Car champion Andy Priaulx won the first race at Oschersleben in Germany to take his first victory in 18 months. Priaulx seized the lead from Gabriele Tarquini on lap six after a multiple crash among the midfield allowed the leaders to run away. Championship leader Yvan Muller hit a corner bollard in the chase, bursting a tyre and forcing him to retire. Dutchman Jaap van Lagen, driving a Lada, was holding fifth and looking for his first ever points when he was pushed from behind by Nicola Larini and spun off the track on the final lap. Larini has been demoted and served with a drive-through penalty for the incident sending him from fifth to 15th. Tarquini's second place gives him the championship lead. In the second race privateer Franz Engstler led for the first four laps until first Augusto Farfus of Brazil and then Guernsey's Andy Priaulx went past him. The two BMWs held those positions to the finish line with Tarquini third, Jorg Muller's BMW fourth and the BMW of Sergio Hernandez fifth. Tarquini is still championship leader with 91 points but Farfus is right behind with 90 and former leader Yvan Muller has 84.
