Hungaroring DTM: Mortara beats Green, Audi locks out top eight
Audi's title contender Edoardo Mortara was quickest in the Saturday DTM qualifying at the Hungaroring, which was dominated by Audi.
Photo by: Alexander Trienitz
The team's drivers had already locked out the top six after their first run, with Mortara leading the pack.
Although Jamie Green demoted him to second with the first flyer of his second stint, Mortara set a time of 1m35.282s after the chequered flag, which was enough to take pole.
Green, the marque's second highest-ranked driver in the standings, will take join Mortara on the front row, ahead of Miguel Molina and Mike Rockenfeller.
Early leader Nico Muller ended up fifth just ahead of Adrien Tambay.
Veterans Timo Scheider and Mattias Ekstrom were the slowest Audis in seventh and eighth.
Mercedes' Felix Rosenqvist became the fastest non-Audi driver in ninth, narrowly edging out championship leader Marco Wittmann of BMW.
Robert Wickens, third in the standings, only qualified 18th as the fourth-fastest Mercedes.
Qualifying results
Cla | Driver | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Edoardo Mortara | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.282 | |
2 | Jamie Green | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.364 | 0.082 |
3 | Miguel Molina | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.449 | 0.167 |
4 | Mike Rockenfeller | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.498 | 0.216 |
5 | Nico Müller | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.525 | 0.243 |
6 | Adrien Tambay | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.589 | 0.307 |
7 | Timo Scheider | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.753 | 0.471 |
8 | Mattias Ekström | Audi RS5 DTM | 1'35.810 | 0.528 |
9 | Felix Rosenqvist | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'35.870 | 0.588 |
10 | Marco Wittmann | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.893 | 0.611 |
11 | Tom Blomqvist | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.923 | 0.641 |
12 | Martin Tomczyk | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.926 | 0.644 |
13 | Timo Glock | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.951 | 0.669 |
14 | Maxime Martin | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.986 | 0.704 |
15 | Antonio Felix da Costa | BMW M4 DTM | 1'35.992 | 0.710 |
16 | Daniel Juncadella | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.023 | 0.741 |
17 | Christian Vietoris | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.045 | 0.763 |
18 | Robert Wickens | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.081 | 0.799 |
19 | Gary Paffett | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.218 | 0.936 |
20 | Augusto Farfus | BMW M4 DTM | 1'36.234 | 0.952 |
21 | Bruno Spengler | BMW M4 DTM | 1'36.389 | 1.107 |
22 | Paul di Resta | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.408 | 1.126 |
23 | Lucas Auer | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.528 | 1.246 |
24 | Maximilian Götz | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 1'36.637 | 1.355 |
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