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Misano DTM: Di Resta dominates wet qualifying
Mercedes driver Paul di Resta will start DTM's first night race from pole position as he topped Saturday qualifying at Misano by half a second.
David Gruz
Edited: Aug 25, 2018, 6:41 PM
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The session was held under wet conditions, the top time constantly falling during the session with Rene Rast taking the early lead with a 1m50.579s - but the pole time eventually ended up over three seconds faster.
It was Rast who spent most of the time in the lead, and he was also first with six minutes on the clock when he went three tenths faster than Lucas Auer.
But he was then demoted by di Resta with a 1m47.382s and Rast's subsequent improvement fell 0.039s short.
Edoardo Mortara came even closer, only 0.002s behind the Scotsman as the chequered flag fell, only for di Resta to go half a second quicker and end up topping the session with a 1m46.854s.
Mortara completed a Mercedes 1-2 as Audi man Rast ended up third.
Gary Paffett was fourth, losing three points of his points lead over Mercedes stablemate di Resta, the gap shrinking to 26 points.
Timo Glock was the top BMW driver in fifth while Auer brought a fourth Mercedes into the top six.
He beat Mike Rockenfeller (Audi) by 0.006s, as the top 10 was completed by Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes), Augusto Farfus (BMW) and Daniel Juncadella (Mercedes).
BMW's top man in the standings Marco Wittmann was only 15th, while the manufacturer's wildcard Alex Zanardi rounded out the order in 19th.
He was 3.7s slower than di Resta but only nine tenths behind 18th-placed Philipp Eng, who started his session with an off-track excursion at Turn 5.
Qualifying results
Cla Driver Car Laps Time Gap 1 
Paul di Resta Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 11 1'46.826 2 
Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 10 1'47.295 0.469 3 
René Rast Audi RS5 DTM 11 1'47.401 0.575 4 
Gary Paffett Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 12 1'47.434 0.608 5 Timo Glock BMW M4 DTM 9 1'47.569 0.743 6 
Lucas Auer Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 11 1'47.597 0.771 7 Mike Rockenfeller Audi RS5 DTM 12 1'47.603 0.777 8 
Pascal Wehrlein Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 12 1'47.645 0.819 9 
Augusto Farfus BMW M4 DTM 11 1'47.654 0.828 10 
Daniel Juncadella Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 11 1'47.769 0.943 11 
Nico Müller Audi RS5 DTM 12 1'47.850 1.024 12 
Robin Frijns Audi RS5 DTM 12 1'48.115 1.289 13 
Bruno Spengler BMW M4 DTM 11 1'48.303 1.477 14 
Loic Duval Audi RS5 DTM 11 1'48.505 1.679 15 
Marco Wittmann BMW M4 DTM 10 1'48.550 1.724 16 
Joel Eriksson BMW M4 DTM 11 1'48.674 1.848 17 
Jamie Green Audi RS5 DTM 11 1'49.383 2.557 18 
Philipp Eng BMW M4 DTM 10 1'49.631 2.805 19 Alessandro Zanardi BMW M4 DTM 10 1'50.571 3.745
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