Hockenheim DTM: BMW's Antonio Felix da Costa takes race one pole

The Portuguese jumped to the top of the times on the second runs in his Schnitzer-run machine, as series-leading BMW stablemate Marco Wittmann dropped from a mid-session provisional pole to fourth.

Wittmann made only a microscopic improvement on the second runs, and got leapfrogged by da Costa, Audi runner Miguel Molina and fellow BMW driver Tom Blomqvist.

But Wittmann fared best of the title contenders, with Audi's Edoardo Mortara and longshot Jamie Green lining up eighth and 14th respectively.

Even some skilful Audi co-operation on slipstreaming - from Mike Rockenfeller on the first run and Molina on the second - could not promote Mortara further up the order, and his best lap came with no tow.

Nevertheless, BMW and Audi look reasonably evenly matched, with the third row continuing that theme as it comprises BMW's Maxime Martin and Audi veteran Rockenfeller.

Augusto Farfus also managed to insert his BMW in front of Mortara, in seventh place.

The top 10 was completed by another BMW-Audi pair, in the form of Timo Glock and Nico Muller respectively.

Mercedes has had weight taken off this weekend, but even so the Stuttgart machines struggled in qualifying.

Felix Rosenqvist was a respectable sixth after the opening runs, but tumbled down the order later on as Paul di Resta moved to the fore for the manufacturer, albeit in a lowly 12th.

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