Overview

• Rast hit the barrier head‑on in the final corner at Spielberg shortly after 14:20, triggering a red flag and ending his afternoon after roughly ten laps.
• Schubert team boss Torsten Schubert confirmed components broke on the BMW’s left front, and BMW M Motorsport has taken parts for analysis; the driver was uninjured but the car’s left front was heavily damaged.
• The incident occurred at the same spot where teammate Marco Wittmann crashed during testing about a year earlier.
• Grasser Racing trialed higher ride heights on the Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 after the SRO raised the model’s minimum front height to 105 mm in related series, with DTM’s BoP for the Red Bull Ring round still pending.
• McLaren’s Ben Dörr topped the private test with a 1:27.986, though teams cautioned the times are not definitive because private sessions run without a binding BoP and only 12 DTM cars participated.