Moscow DTM: BMW racer Blomqvist loses pole due to fuelling error

Blomqvist had beaten Spengler by 0.061s in the Sunday pole shoot-out, moving up from outside of the top 10 to first place at the chequered flag.

But the Anglo-Swede, who sits 15th in the championship's standings, will now start from the back of the grid after what he has described on social media as a "fuel miscalculation".

The decision from the stewards read: "After qualifying for race two, it was not possible to get the required 1.0kg of residual fuel out of car #31."

The sanction means BMW has lost a 1-2 on the grid for the race, with new polesitter Spengler joined on the front row by Audi's Mattias Ekstrom.

Audi's championship leader Rene Rast will move up to third, with Mercedes' top driver in qualifying, Paul di Resta, now making up row two.

Blomqvist is the second BMW driver to lose a pole at Moscow after Marco Wittmann was given a five-place grid penalty for being handed a third warning of the year at the previous round, having been fastest in the first qualifying session.

REVISED RACE TWO STARTING GRID

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	Bruno Spengler	RBM	BMW	1m26.579s
2	Mattias Ekstrom	Abt	Audi	0.003s
3	Rene Rast	Rosberg	Audi	0.156s
4	Paul Di Resta	HWA	Mercedes	0.308s
5	Timo Glock	RMR	BMW	0.323s
6	Marco Wittmann	RMG	BMW	0.331s
7	Maxime Martin	RBM	BMW	0.358s
8	Loic Duval	Phoenix	Audi	0.367s
9	Gary Paffett	HWA	Mercedes	0.534s
10	Robert Wickens	HWA	Mercedes	0.651s
11	Augusto Farfus	RMG	BMW	0.651s
12	Lucas Auer	HWA	Mercedes	0.651s
13	Nico Muller	Abt	Audi	0.679s
14	Mike Rockenfeller	Phoenix	Audi	0.724s
15	Jamie Green	Rosberg	Audi	0.589s
16	Edoardo Mortara	HWA	Mercedes	0.753s
17	Maro Engel	HWA	Mercedes	0.898s
18	Tom Blomqvist	RMR	BMW	-0.061