Lausitz DTM: Audi's Green to start series' 500th race from pole
Jamie Green took his first pole position of the 2019 DTM season at the Lausitzring ahead of the series' 500th race
Green went top of the times during the first runs and set the ultimate benchmark of 1m35.397s, with title contenders Nico Muller and Rene Rast unable to improve their efforts in the final minutes of the session.
As a result, Green sealed his first pole position since he headed the grid for both Red Bull Ring races in September 2017.
Muller's and Rast's failure to improve also meant WRT Audi's Jonathan Aberdein was able to set three personal best sectors to launch himself from a provisional ninth place on the grid up to second, securing a place on the front row.
As a result, Saturday race winner Muller will line up third on the grid - scoring one point as a result, which reduces his deficit to championship leader Rast to just 13 points ahead of Sunday's race.
But Rast, who retired from Saturday's opening race due to a suspected sensor problem, will start alongside Muller on the second row of the grid after qualifying fourth.
Robin Frijns ensured it was an all-Audi top five ahead of the best-placed BMW M4 DTM of outside title contender Marco Wittmann.
Loic Duval was one of a handful of drivers to improve his time significantly on the second set of runs and moved to seventh ahead of the second WRT Audi of Pietro Fittipaldi.
Ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock was the second-highest placed BMW in ninth ahead of Mike Rockenfeller, who secured a podium in Saturday's race.
The remaining four BMWs locked out 11th through 14th with Sheldon van der Linde leading Joel Eriksson, Philipp Eng and Bruno Spengler.
Paul Di Resta was the quickest R-Motorsport driver and placed his Aston Martin Vantage DTM 15th on the grid ahead of team-mates Jake Dennis, Ferdinand Habsburg and Daniel Juncadella.
Starting grid
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jamie Green | Rosberg | Audi | 1m35.397s |
2 | Jonathan Aberdein | WRT | Audi | 0.101s |
3 | Nico Muller | Abt | Audi | 0.151s |
4 | Rene Rast | Rosberg | Audi | 0.212s |
5 | Robin Frijns | Abt | Audi | 0.231s |
6 | Marco Wittmann | RMG | BMW | 0.250s |
7 | Loic Duval | Phoenix | Audi | 0.280s |
8 | Pietro Fittipaldi | WRT | Audi | 0.350s |
9 | Timo Glock | RMR | BMW | 0.446s |
10 | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix | Audi | 0.494s |
11 | Sheldon van der Linde | RBM | BMW | 0.510s |
12 | Bruno Spengler | RMG | BMW | 0.930s |
13 | Joel Eriksson | RBM | BMW | 0.638s |
14 | Paul Di Resta | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.158s |
15 | Jake Dennis | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.270s |
16 | Ferdinand Habsburg | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.715s |
17 | Daniel Juncadella | R-Motorsport | Aston Martin | 1.733s |
18 | Philipp Eng | RMR | BMW | 0.917s |
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