Mattias Ekstrom leads second DTM practice session for Audi at the Nurburgring

The two-time DTM champion's table-topping time of 1m24.538s came with 10 minutes of the session to go and knocked his team-mate Mike Rockenfeller off the top spot by just over 0.1s.

Ekstrom almost improved his time in the final minute, but despite setting the best first sector time of all, fell short by just 0.04s.

Series leader Bruno Spengler was just 0.007s off Ekstrom's pace in his HWA Mercedes while Friday pace-setter Rockenfeller also improved on his mark late on to take third.

In an amazingly close session - even by DTM standards - Miguel Molina made it three Abt cars in the top four, albeit in an older-spec A4 than either Ekstrom or Rockenfeller. He was only 0.05s off the pace.

Two more old Audis were next up in the hands of Phoenix and Rosberg drivers Martin Tomczyk and Edoardo Mortara, while Gary Paffett improved considerably on his Friday pace to go seventh for HWA.

Abt team-mates Oliver Jarvis and Timo Scheider were next up with Jamie Green - who had the only minor moment of the session as he outbraked himself and ran wide at Turn 1, completing the top 10 for HWA.

As was the case on Friday, a second covered the top 17 drivers.

Pos  Driver                Team          Time
 1.  Mattias Ekström       Audi          1m24.538s
 2.  Bruno Spengler        Mercedes      1m24.545s  + 0.007s
 3.  Mike Rockenfeller     Audi          1m24.568s  + 0.030s
 4.  Miguel Molina         Audi          1m24.587s  + 0.049s
 5.  Martin Tomczyk        Audi          1m24.727s  + 0.189s
 6.  Edoardo Mortara       Audi          1m24.769s  + 0.231s
 7.  Gary Paffett          Mercedes      1m24.790s  + 0.252s
 8.  Oliver Jarvis         Audi          1m24.790s  + 0.252s
 9.  Timo Scheider         Audi          1m24.799s  + 0.261s
10.  Jamie Green           Mercedes      1m24.840s  + 0.302s
11.  Christian Vietoris    Mercedes      1m24.856s  + 0.318s
12.  David Coulthard       Mercedes      1m24.944s  + 0.406s
13.  Maro Engel            Mercedes      1m24.957s  + 0.419s
14.  Filipe Albuquerque    Audi          1m25.085s  + 0.547s
15.  Ralf Schumacher       Mercedes      1m25.226s  + 0.688s
16.  Renger van der Zande  Mercedes      1m25.237s  + 0.699s
17.  Susie Stoddart        Mercedes      1m25.590s  + 1.052s
18.  Rahel Frey            Audi          1m25.792s  + 1.254s