German driver Martin Tomczyk of Audi lapped the 3.629 kilometres long sprint circuit of the Nürburgring in 1:23.489 to claim today his seventh pole position in the DTM.
Alongside Tomczyk, Canadian Bruno Spengler will be starting from second place into Sunday’s race with his AMG Mercedes C-Class. He was 0.195 seconds down on the pole-sitter. After qualifying, Spengler said: “To be honest, I am very happy with second place. That was far from easy today. However, I gave my best and the balance of the car was good. I will try to complete a race without any mistakes.” In hot conditions, Mattias Ekström with his Audi A4 DTM set the third-fastest time. Together with British driver Gary Paffett (Mercedes-Benz), the Swede is leading in the points’ standings with 28 points. However, Paffett is in a significantly worse position for the race. Due to an engine misfire, he only reached 16th place on the starting grid. With Timo Scheider, another Audi driver is lining up on the second grid row alongside Ekström. British driver Oliver Jarvis again showed a good performance in qualifying. The best-placed driver of a 2008-spec car, the 25-year old Audi driver will be starting from fifth place into the sixth round of the season of the most popular international touring car series. For Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes-Benz), the four-heat qualifying session was already over after the first session. The ex-Formula 1 driver will be starting 15th. Starting grid 1st row Martin Tomczyk (Audi A4 09) - Abt - 1'23"489 - Q4 Bruno Spengler (Mercedes C Klasse 09) - AMG - 1'23"684 - Q4 2nd row Mattias Ekstrom (Audi A4 09) - Abt - 1'23"758 - Q4 Timo Scheider (Audi A4 09) - Abt - 1'24"183 - Q4 3rd row Oliver Jarvis (Audi A4 08) - Phoenix - 1'23"848 - Q3 Paul Di Resta (Mercedes C Klasse 09) - AMG - 1'23"850 - Q3 4th row Markus Winkelhock (Audi A4 08) - Rosberg - 1'23"938 - Q3 Tom Kristensen (Audi A4 09) - Abt - 1'23"965 - Q3 5th row Mike Rockenfeller (Audi A4 08) - Rosberg - 1'24"324 - Q2 Maro Engel (Mercedes C Klasse 08) - Persson - 1'24"374 - Q2 6th row Jamie Green (Mercedes C Klasse 08) - AMG - 1'24"574 - Q2 Alexandre Prémat (Audi A4 08) - Phoenix - 1'24"578 - Q2 7th row Mathias Lauda (Mercedes C Klasse 08) - Persson - 1'24"637 - Q2 Katherine Legge (Audi A4 09) - Abt - 1'24"755 - Q2 8th row Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes C Klasse 09) - AMG - 1'24"548 - Q1 Gary Paffett (Mercedes C Klasse 09) - AMG - 1'24"650 - Q1 9th row Susie Stoddart (Mercedes C Klasse 08) - Persson - 1'25"207 - Q1 Christian Bakkerud (Audi A4 07) - Kolles - 1'25"346 - Q1 10th row Johannes Seidlitz (Audi A4 07) - Kolles - 1'25"460 - Q1 Tomas Kostka (Audi A4 07) - Kolles - 1'25"578 - Q1
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