Hockenheim DTM: Glock grabs pole by 0.037s
Timo Glock scored his second pole position of the 2017 DTM season after beating fellow BMW driver Maxime Martin by three hundredths of a second at Hockenheim.
Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
Glock jumped into first place in the final minute of the session, demoting previous leader Jamie Green with a time of 1m30.648s.
Audi driver Green looked set to add a third consecutive pole position to his tally, having topped both qualifying sessions in the previous round at the Red Bull Ring.
However, the Briton was unable to improve in the late stages of this session and dropped behind the BMW duo of Glock and Martin.
Moreover, Green is under investigation for blocking, as is Audi stablemate Mike Rockenfeller.
Rene Rast was the second-fastest Audi in fourth, as the third row will be filled by Mercedes duo Edoardo Mortara and Robert Wickens.
Rockenfeller was seventh, ahead of the only remaining BMW title contender Marco Wittmann.
The top 10 was rounded out by two more Audis in Nico Muller and championship favourite Mattias Ekstrom.
Meanwhile, Lucas Auer, the top Mercedes man in the standings, could only take 15th.
Ekstrom sits 21 points ahead of Rast with two races to go, and would need to outscore his fellow Audi driver by eight points on Saturday - while also not dropping significant ground to any of Green, Rockenfeller, Wittmann or Auer - to clinch the title ahead of the final race.
Qualifying results
Cla | Driver | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Timo Glock | BMW M4 DTM | 1'30.648 | |
2 | Maxime Martin | BMW M4 DTM | 1'30.685 | 0.037 |
3 | Jamie Green | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'30.770 | 0.122 |
4 | René Rast | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'30.803 | 0.155 |
5 | Edoardo Mortara | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'30.806 | 0.158 |
6 | Robert Wickens | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'30.836 | 0.188 |
7 | Mike Rockenfeller | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'30.839 | 0.191 |
8 | Marco Wittmann | BMW M4 DTM | 1'30.850 | 0.202 |
9 | Nico Müller | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'30.935 | 0.287 |
10 | Mattias Ekström | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'30.956 | 0.308 |
11 | Gary Paffett | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'30.958 | 0.310 |
12 | Bruno Spengler | BMW M4 DTM | 1'30.979 | 0.331 |
13 | Paul di Resta | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'31.026 | 0.378 |
14 | Augusto Farfus | BMW M4 DTM | 1'31.037 | 0.389 |
15 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'31.088 | 0.440 |
16 | Tom Blomqvist | BMW M4 DTM | 1'31.125 | 0.477 |
17 | Maro Engel | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'31.390 | 0.742 |
18 | Loic Duval | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'31.515 | 0.867 |
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