Miguel Molina stays on top in second DTM practice session at Valencia
Miguel Molina remained the man to beat in the second DTM practice session at Valencia as Audis took the top five places in the order
In far cooler temperatures than those experienced during Friday afternoon's opening session, local driver Molina quickly took his old-spec Abt Audi into the top spot in a time of 1m30.700 - a second up on his time less than 24 hours earlier.
He reduced the benchmark to 1m30.452 with 15 minutes remaining, which was enough to secure the top spot by just 0.019s.
During the final 10 minutes he came under threat from a succession of Audis, with his Abt team-mates Mike Rockenfeller and Mattias Ekstrom, plus Team Rosberg driver Edoardo Mortara all moving up the order. Ekstrom wound up second, ahead of Mortara, Rockenfeller and Filipe Albuquerque in the second Rosberg car.
Bruno Spengler, who is only guaranteed to take the title fight down to the Hockenheim finale by winning, was Mercedes' best driver, the HWA man sixth ahead of his team-mates Jamie Green and Gary Paffett.
Timo Scheider (Abt) and Ralf Schumacher (HWA) completed the top 10 ahead of series leader Martin Tomczyk, whose Phoenix Audi was knocked back from fourth to 11th during the final five minutes.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Miguel Molina Abt Audi 1m30.452s 2. Mattias Ekstrom Abt Audi 1m30.471s + 0.019s 3. Edoardo Mortara Rosberg Audi 1m30.477s + 0.025s 4. Mike Rockenfeller Abt Audi 1m30.597s + 0.145s 5. Filipe Albuquerque Rosberg Audi 1m30.681s + 0.229s 6. Bruno Spengler HWA Mercedes 1m30.741s + 0.289s 7. Jamie Green HWA Mercedes 1m30.793s + 0.341s 8. Gary Paffett HWA Mercedes 1m30.867s + 0.415s 9. Timo Scheider Abt Audi 1m30.919s + 0.467s 10. Ralf Schumacher HWA Mercedes 1m30.938s + 0.486s 11. Martin Tomczyk Phoenix Audi 1m30.941s + 0.489s 12. Oliver Jarvis Abt Audi 1m31.074s + 0.622s 13. Susie Stoddart Persson Mercedes 1m31.248s + 0.796s 14. Renger van der Zande Persson Mercedes 1m31.302s + 0.850s 15. David Coulthard Mucke Mercedes 1m31.330s + 0.878s 16. Rahel Frey Phoenix Audi 1m31.342s + 0.890s 17. Christian Vietoris Persson Mercedes 1m31.347s + 0.895s 18. Maro Engel Mucke Mercedes 1m31.437s + 0.985s
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