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Brands Hatch DTM: Juncadella leads all-Mercedes front row
Daniel Juncadella secured pole position for the opening DTM race of the weekend at Brands Hatch, leading an all-Mercedes front row ahead of Lucas Auer.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Aug 11, 2018, 10:55 AM
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Juncadella snatched his second pole of the 2018 DTM campaign with a late lap of 1m18.069s around Brands Hatch's Grand Prix layout, enough to edge out stablemate Auer by 0.092s at the end of the 20-minute session.
It had been Auer that held the lead heading into the final five minutes, ahead of BMW's practice pacesetter Augusto Farfus, before Juncadella leapt to the head of the order with less than a minute left on the clock.
Auer improved thereafter but not by enough to beat the Spaniard, while reigning champion Rene Rast's final lap was good enough to put him third, a further tenth behind in the best of the Audis.
Philipp Eng led the BMW charge in fourth, just 0.002s behind Rast, while Farfus slipped to fifth in the closing stages.
Points leader Gary Paffett suffered an off at Paddock Hill in the first part of the session, glancing the barrier, but the Mercedes driver avoided major damage and was able to set the sixth-fastest time when he returned to the track.
Ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock spun off at Surtees at the very end of the session, bringing out the yellow flags, but had set a time good enough for seventh.
Edoardo Mortara (Mercedes), Marco Wittmann (BMW) and Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes) completed the top 10.
Rast was the only Audi driver to breach the top 10, with the Ingolstadt marque's next-best placed representative being Robin Frijns in 11th place.
Jamie Green's struggles continued at his home track, the series veteran qualifying on the back row alongside BMW man Bruno Spengler.
Qualifying results:
Pos. # Driver Car Time Gap 1 23 
Daniel Juncadella Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.069 2 22 
Lucas Auer Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.161 0.092 3 33 
René Rast Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.255 0.186 4 25 
Philipp Eng BMW M4 DTM 1'18.257 0.188 5 15 
Augusto Farfus BMW M4 DTM 1'18.365 0.296 6 2 
Gary Paffett Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.398 0.329 7 16 Timo Glock BMW M4 DTM 1'18.407 0.338 8 48 
Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.422 0.353 9 11 Marco Wittmann BMW M4 DTM 1'18.443 0.374 10 94 
Pascal Wehrlein Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.444 0.375 11 4 
Robin Frijns Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.530 0.461 12 3 
Paul di Resta Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 1'18.625 0.556 13 51 
Nico Müller Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.644 0.575 14 28 
Loic Duval Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.695 0.626 15 99 
Mike Rockenfeller Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.746 0.677 16 47 
Joel Eriksson BMW M4 DTM 1'18.755 0.686 17 53 
Jamie Green Audi RS5 DTM 1'18.799 0.730 18 7 
Bruno Spengler BMW M4 DTM 1'19.385 1.316
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