Qualifying report
DTM Misano
Misano DTM: Rast on pole again, trouble for Dovizioso
Audi's Rene Rast made it a clean sweep of pole positions at Misano ahead of Sunday's finale, while Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso nudged the barriers after an early error.
Tom Errington
Edited: Jun 9, 2019, 10:39 AM
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Dovizioso made a mistake on his first flying lap at the tight Turn 14 hairpin, locking up and drifting wide into the gravel before gently touching the barrier to cause a red flag.
After asking for assistance in reversing the WRT Audi out of the gravel, Dovizioso continued and rejoined the session when the green flag was waved.
The early delay meant Rast did not repeat his Saturday strategy of setting a banker lap in the first runs in order to conserve tyres.
Rast placed second after the first runs behind Audi stablemate Robin Frijns, with the provisional polesitter deciding against making a second run.
The DTM championship leader then fired in a 1m25.384s lap in the final minutes of the session to jump ahead of Frijns by 0.070s.
Audi again dominated the timesheets, this time by locking out the top five positions.
Jonathan Aberdein secured third on the grid for the WRT Audi squad ahead of Nico Muller, while Pietro Fittipaldi took his best qualifying result by sealing fifth.
Saturday race winner Marco Wittmann was the leading BMW in sixth place ahead of Loic Duval.
BMW's Joel Eriksson retired with a technical problem in Saturday's race, but recovered to lead the times during the first runs before eventually settling for eighth.
Philipp Eng was ninth ahead of Timo Glock, who set a late best lap after failing to see a competitive time during the first runs.
Dovizioso would eventually take 14th, lapping 1.3s off Rast's benchmark, placing behind Mike Rockenfeller and Bruno Spengler on the grid.
Jake Dennis was the lead R-Motorsport Aston Martin driver in 15th, placing ahead of Daniel Juncadella, Paul di Resta and Ferdinand Habsburg.
Qualifying results:
Cla # Driver Car Time Gap 1 33 René Rast
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.384 2 4 Robin Frijns
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.454 0.070 3 27 Jonathan Aberdein
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.584 0.200 4 51 Nico Müller
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.632 0.248 5 21 Pietro Fittipaldi
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.659 0.275 6 11 Marco Wittmann
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'25.764 0.380 7 28 Loic Duval
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'25.767 0.383 8 47 Joel Eriksson
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'25.803 0.419 9 25 Philipp Eng
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'25.805 0.421 10 16 Timo Glock
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'25.814 0.430 11 31 Sheldon Van Der Linde
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'25.981 0.597 12 99 Mike Rockenfeller
Audi RS 5 Turbo DTM 1'26.005 0.621 13 7 Bruno Spengler
BMW M4 Turbo DTM 1'26.458 1.074 14 34 Andrea Dovizioso
Audi RS5 DTM 1'26.703 1.319 15 76 Jake Dennis
Aston Martin Vantage DTM 1'26.831 1.447 16 23 Daniel Juncadella
Aston Martin Vantage DTM 1'27.009 1.625 17 3 Paul di Resta
Aston Martin Vantage DTM 1'27.198 1.814 18 62 Ferdinand Habsburg
Aston Martin Vantage DTM 1'27.325 1.941 View full results
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