Green crosses the finish line as the DTM's customary end-of-year fireworks commence - Photo Credit: dtm.com
Jamie Green took the last victory for the current set of DTM technical regulations in comfortable style at Hockenheim.
The Briton got the better of polesitter Miguel Molina on the run down to the first corner and went on to take an unchallenged victory, his first since Norising last year and the first for a Mercedes driver since Bruno Spengler won this year's Norising race back in July.
“I feel very proud to have won this race which is also the final outing for the AMG Mercedes C-Class, the most successful car in DTM history,” said Green. “My car was perfect and I'm so pleased to have won here at Hockenheim for the second time.
“Now I can start the winter break on a high as a race winner this year. Many thanks to my team for all their work today and throughout the season. I'm looking forward to the new DTM era which starts in 2012.”
Molina also lost out to 2011 champion Martin Tomczyk on the opening lap, but the latter did not have the speed to match Green and finished seven seconds down the road.
“It was an outstanding race and a nice conclusion of the season, which I enjoyed very much,” he said. “I wasn't able to completely keep up with Jamie's pace, but that was secondary today.
“It was great to finish the year on the podium and to start into the winter break this way. My thanks go to everyone in Audi Sport Team Phoenix and at Audi who has supported me. It's been a brilliant season.”
Molina secured his maiden podium finish in third, some way ahead of Mike Rockenfeller. Gary Paffett came home right behind Rockenfeller after passing Timo Scheider just after the German had completed his first stop, which came one lap later than Paffett's.
Mattias Ekstrom also passed Scheider later in the race to finish sixth, with it securing the runner-up spot in the championship. He was able to overhaul Bruno Spengler after the Canadian fell to ninth on the opening lap of the race. Scheider and Oliver Jarvis came home in formation in front of Spengler.
Race results – 38 laps:
| Pos. | Driver / Entrant / Car | Time/Gap |
| 1. | Jamie Green AMG Mercedes AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:00:45.734 |
| 2. | Martin Tomczyk Audi Sport Team Phoenix Schaeffler Audi A4 DTM |
7.620 |
| 3. | Miguel Molina Audi Sport Team Abt Junior Red Bull Audi A4 DTM |
10.142 |
| 4. | Mike Rockenfeller Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline E-POSTBRIEF Audi A4 DTM |
22.486 |
| 5. | Gary Paffett Thomas Sabo AMG Mercedes Thomas Sabo AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
23.985 |
| 6. | Mattias Ekström Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Red Bull Audi A4 DTM |
24.418 |
| 7. | Timo Scheider Audi Sport Team Abt AUTO TEST Audi A4 DTM |
32.358 |
| 8. | Oliver Jarvis Audi Sport Team Abt Audi Sport performance cars A4 DTM |
32.840 |
| 9. | Bruno Spengler Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Klasse |
33.201 |
| 10. | Filipe Albuquerque Audi Sport Team Rosberg TV Movie Audi A4 DTM |
34.967 |
| 11. | Ralf Schumacher Salzgitter AMG Mercedes Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
36.068 |
| 12. | Renger van der Zande stern AMG Mercedes stern AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
42.319 |
| 13. | Edoardo Mortara Audi Sport Team Rosberg Playboy Audi A4 DTM |
46.307 |
| 14. | Maro Engel GQ AMG Mercedes GQ AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
46.772 |
| 15. | Susie Wolff TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
54.523 |
| 16. | Rahel Frey Audi Sport Team Phoenix Glamour Audi A4 DTM |
1:02.122 |
| 17. | David Coulthard Deutsche Post AMG Mercedes Deutsche Post AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
+ 1 lap |
| Ret | Christian Vietoris Junge Sterne AMG Mercedes Junge Sterne AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
10 laps |
