Tarquini fastest at Oschersleben

Tarquini's SEAT and Huff's Chevrolet were separated by just 0.040s at the head of the field, and were quarter of a second clear of everyone else.

Jordi Gene's SEAT, Andy Priaulx's BMW and Tiago Monteiro's SEAT were covered by just half a tenth in third to fifth places, though Monteiro ended the session five minutes early when he ploughed straight on into the wall at Turn 3, Hasseroder.

Augusto Farfus and Alain Menu finished up sixth and seventh quickest in the second of the BMWs and Chevrolets.

Michel Nykjaer and Tom Coronel made it five Leons in the top 10, which was completed by championship leader Yvan Muller's Cruze. Franz Engstler was the fastest of the independent runners in 13th.

The session was broken up by an early red flag period, when Stefano D'Aste crashed his BMW into the barriers.

Pos  Driver              Car        Time       Gap
 1.  Gabriele Tarquini   SEAT       1m36.852s
 2.  Rob Huff            Chevrolet  1m36.892s  + 0.040s
 3.  Jordi Gene          SEAT       1m37.106s  + 0.254s
 4.  Andy Priaulx        BMW        1m37.123s  + 0.271s
 5.  Tiago Monteiro      SEAT       1m37.158s  + 0.306s
 6.  Augusto Farfus      BMW        1m37.243s  + 0.391s
 7.  Alain Menu          Chevrolet  1m37.295s  + 0.443s
 8.  Michel Nykjaer      SEAT       1m37.339s  + 0.487s
 9.  Tom Coronel         SEAT       1m37.354s  + 0.502s
10.  Yvan Muller         Chevrolet  1m37.455s  + 0.603s
11.  Norbert Michelisz   SEAT       1m37.616s  + 0.764s
12.  Fredy Barth         SEAT       1m37.677s  + 0.825s
13.  Franz Engstler      BMW        1m38.082s  + 1.230s
14.  Sergio Hernandez    BMW        1m38.253s  + 1.401s
15.  Mehdi Bennani       BMW        1m38.734s  + 1.882s
16.  Kristian Poulsen    BMW        1m38.790s  + 1.938s
17.  Andrey Romanov      BMW        1m39.261s  + 2.409s
18.  Darryl O'Young      Chevrolet  1m39.269s  + 2.417s
19.  Yukinori Taniguchi  Chevrolet  1m41.523s  + 4.671s
20.  Fabio Fabiani       BMW        1m43.057s  + 6.205s
21.  Stefano D'Aste      BMW