Lausitz DTM: Molina heads Audi 1-2 in Saturday qualfiying

Molina set a blistering pace in the first half of the session and, while Jamie Green would manage to lap within a tenth of the Spaniard, neither he nor anybody else could deny Molina pole.

Following two practice sessions in which Mercedes and Audi shared the spoils, then-weekend pacesetter Nico Muller lowered his own benchmark in his first qualifying flyer - but was quickly surpassed by Tom Blomqvist, before Mike Rockenfeller and Christian Vietoris took their respective turns out front.

Muller was back to the lead with his second lap, only for his Audi stablemate Molina to enter the 1m16s margin for the first time this weekend in quite some style - the Spaniard putting in a 1m16.619s, half a second clear of Muller's lap.

Four other drivers managed to go below 1m17s before the halfway point, with BMW driver Marco Wittmann lapping closest to Molina, 0.15s off.

Molina would not improve his time in the second half of the session, but his provisional pole looked in little danger for the most part - although Green did provide a minor scare by stealing P2 on the grid with a lap only 0.077s off.

It would be third place for top BMW man Wittmann, one of two representatives from the Bavarian marque in the top 10.

Mercedes trio Robert Wickens, Lucas Auer and Christian Vietoris took fourth, fifth and sixth, ahead of Mattias Ekstrom (Audi) and Maxime Martin (BMW).

Adrien Tambay and Muller made it an all-Audi row five.

Qualifying results

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Gap
1	Miguel Molina	Audi	1:16.619
2	Jamie Green	Audi	1:16.696	0.077
3	Marco Wittmann	BMW	1:16.771	0.152
4	Robert Wickens	Mercedes	1:16.792	0.173
5	Lucas Auer	Mercedes	1:16.844	0.225
6	Christian Vietoris	Mercedes	1:16.896	0.277
7	Mattias Ekstrom	Audi	1:16.901	0.282
8	Maxime Martin	BMW	1:16.901	0.282
9	Adrien Tambay	Audi	1:16.961	0.342
10	Nico Muller	Audi	1:16.993	0.374
11	Edoardo Mortara	Audi	1:16.997	0.378
12	Gary Paffett	Mercedes	1:17.059	0.440
13	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi	1:17.082	0.463
14	Timo Glock	BMW	1:17.126	0.507
15	Maximilian Gotz	Mercedes	1:17.172	0.553
16	Bruno Spengler	BMW	1:17.188	0.569
17	Esteban Ocon	Mercedes	1:17.225	0.606
18	Timo Scheider	Audi	1:17.228	0.609
19	Tom Blomqvist	BMW	1:17.295	0.676
20	Antonio Felix da Costa	BMW	1:17.296	0.677
21	Paul di Resta	Mercedes	1:17.340	0.721
22	Dani Juncadella	Mercedes	1:17.356	0.737
23	Augusto Farfus	BMW	1:17.406	0.787
24	Martin Tomczyk	BMW	1:17.536	0.917