Nurburgring DTM: Rast completes pole position sweep

Philipp Eng had topped the times after the first run in his BMW and looked relatively secure until the final minute. 

After Eng posted a best purple sector at the beginning of the lap, he gave up time in the following two sectors that stopped him improving on a 1m22.159s. 

As he crossed the line, race one winner Rast went purple in sector one and pieced together a lap of 1m22.140s to hit the top of the times. 

Mercedes driver and points leader Gary Paffett was the only driver in reach of Rast but fell short by just 0.006s to take second on the grid. 

That meant Eng fell to third place as BMW stablemate Timo Glock posted his best lap after the chequered flag to go fourth ahead of the Mercedes cars of Lucas Auer and Pascal Wehrlein. 

Mike Rockenfeller put his Audi seventh on the grid despite running wide during his second attempt.

Bruno Spengler, who took a podium on Saturday, qualified eighth ahead of fellow BMW drivers Marco Wittmann and Joel Eriksson.

Title contender Paul di Resta was 11th after his contentious clash with Eng on Saturday.

Qualifying results:

Pos.	#	Driver	Car	Time	Gap
1	33	René Rast	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.140
2	2	Gary Paffett	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.146	0.006
3	25	Philipp Eng	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.159	0.019
4	16	Timo Glock	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.203	0.063
5	22	Lucas Auer	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.331	0.191
6	94	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.331	0.191
7	99	Mike Rockenfeller	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.468	0.328
8	7	Bruno Spengler	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.502	0.362
9	11	Marco Wittmann	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.505	0.365
10	47	Joel Eriksson	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.540	0.400
11	3	Paul di Resta	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.566	0.426
12	51	Nico Müller	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.568	0.428
13	15	Augusto Farfus	BMW M4 DTM	1'22.586	0.446
14	23	Daniel Juncadella	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.624	0.484
15	53	Jamie Green	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.711	0.571
16	28	Loic Duval	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.887	0.747
17	4	Robin Frijns	Audi RS5 DTM	1'22.921	0.781
18	48	Edoardo Mortara	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	1'22.925	0.785