Hockenheim DTM: Glock prevails in damp Sunday qualifying

In damp and drizzly conditions, Glock was the first driver to brave running dry tyres at the halfway point of the 20-minute session and went on to record a fastest time of 1m31.406s in the final minute to claim only his second pole in the series.

All cars started the session on wet tyres, with Edoardo Mortara setting a fastest time of 1m42.218s in his Team BWT Mercedes before the field headed back to the pits.

Saturday runner-up Glock was the first to show his hand as he bolted on a set of dry tyres, and immediately jumped from 15th to fourth before going six seconds faster than Mortara’s previous wet best on his second flying lap.

Glock slowly fell down the order from there, but came good in the closing stages of the session as conditions continued to improve.

The German recorded his best time with his final flying lap, and remained at the top of the timing screens despite a late flurry of improvements behind him – claiming an additional three points for pole.

Rene Rast will start his second race as a full-time Audi DTM driver from the outside of the front row, having been among those to improve after Glock. He will line up ahead of Team Rosberg stablemate Jamie Green and Mortara.

Fresh from his first podium in more than a year a day earlier, Mike Rockenfeller was, like Glock, an early pacesetter following the switch to dry rubber and will line up fifth, ahead of Bruno Spengler, Gary Paffett and race one winner Lucas Auer.

Series returnee Maro Engel and Mattias Ekstrom completed the top 10.

BMW driver Augusto Farfus had initially recorded the second-fastest time on his final flying lap, just 0.026s off Glock, but the Brazilian had that time deleted for crossing the finish line too late and will therefore line up 18th and last.

Qualifying 2 results

Pos.	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap
1	16	Timo Glock	BMW M4 DTM	1'31.406
2	33	René Rast	Audi RS5 DTM	1'31.581	0.175
3	53	Jamie Green	Audi RS5 DTM	1'31.639	0.233
4	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'31.759	0.353
5	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi RS5 DTM	1'31.764	0.358
6	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW M4 DTM	1'31.924	0.518
7	2	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'32.025	0.619
8	22	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'32.068	0.662
9	63	Maro Engel	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'32.081	0.675
10	5	Mattias Ekström	Audi RS5 DTM	1'32.096	0.690
11	3	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'32.103	0.697
12	51	Nico Müller	Audi RS5 DTM	1'32.228	0.822
13	77	Loic Duval	Audi RS5 DTM	1'32.335	0.929
14	31	Tom Blomqvist	BMW M4 DTM	1'32.393	0.987
15	36	Maxime Martin	BMW M4 DTM	1'32.529	1.123
16	6	Robert Wickens	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'32.552	1.146
17	11	Marco Wittmann	BMW M4 DTM	1'32.661	1.255
18	15	Augusto Farfus	BMW M4 DTM	1'33.734	2.328