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Qualifying report

Hockenheim DTM: Auer on pole, Paffett closes on points lead

Mercedes driver Lucas Auer took pole position for the Saturday DTM race at Hockenheim as Gary Paffett halved Paul di Resta's championship lead by qualifying second.

Lucas Auer, Mercedes-AMG Team HWA, Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM

Lucas Auer, Mercedes-AMG Team HWA, Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM

Alexander Trienitz

Di Resta started the weekend with a four-point lead over Mercedes stablemate Paffett, but the latter scored two points by taking second in qualifying.

Paffett was the first car to enter the track in the session qualifying and he set the first representative laptime as well, leading early on with a 1m33.118s.

BMW duo Timo Glock and Joel Eriksson both managed to move ahead of him before the mid-session lull, the former Formula 1 driver the only one with a sub-1m33s time.

But Paffett was again early as the second runs began and lowered his benchmark to retake first with a 1m32.737s.

Neither Audi pair Nico Muller nor Rene Rast could beat Paffett's time, but Auer eventually went 0.102s faster during the final minute of the session, the Austrian taking his third pole position of the season.

Glock was third but will only start eighth due to a five-place grid penalty for getting his third warning last time out in Austria.

Fourth-placed Rast, who is 30 points down on di Resta and still has an outside shot of the title, will start third as a result alongside Augusto Farfus.

Muller and Phillip Eng were sixth and seventh in qualifying, but the latter was given the same penalty as Glock and will only line up 12th on the grid.

As a result, Di Resta, who was only 0.290s off the pace but eighth in the order, and Robin Frijns (Audi) became the biggest beneficiaries of the two penalties as they will start sixth and seventh respectively.

Edoardo Mortara (Mercedes) completed the top 10 in the session and will start ninth behind Glock and ahead of Eriksson.

Marco Wittmann (BMW) crashed in morning practice and his car couldn't be repaired in time for qualifying.

Race 1 grid

Pos. Driver Car Time Gap
1 Austria Lucas Auer  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'32.635  
2 United Kingdom Gary Paffett  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'32.737 0.102
3 Germany René Rast  Audi RS5 DTM 1'32.847 0.212
4 Brazil Augusto Farfus  BMW M4 DTM 1'32.880 0.245
5 Switzerland Nico Müller  Audi RS5 DTM 1'32.887 0.252
6 United Kingdom Paul di Resta  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'32.925 0.290
7 Netherlands Robin Frijns  Audi RS5 DTM 1'32.946 0.311
8 Germany Timo Glock  BMW M4 DTM 1'32.751 0.116
9 Italy Edoardo Mortara  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'32.949 0.314
10 Sweden Joel Eriksson  BMW M4 DTM 1'33.042 0.407
11 Canada Bruno Spengler  BMW M4 DTM 1'33.070 0.435
12 Austria Philipp Eng  BMW M4 DTM 1'32.902 0.267
13 Spain Daniel Juncadella  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'33.098 0.463
14 Germany Pascal Wehrlein  Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'33.124 0.489
15 Germany Mike Rockenfeller  Audi RS5 DTM 1'33.168 0.533
16 France Loic Duval  Audi RS5 DTM 1'33.275 0.640
17 United Kingdom Jamie Green  Audi RS5 DTM 1'33.372 0.737

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