DTM: Rast on pole, Button sixth for Super GT

Rene Rast
Rene Rast

Audi's Rene Rast took his eighth pole of the DTM season at Hockenheim as 2009 Formula 1 champion Jenson Button took a surprise sixth as the best-placed SUPER GT driver.

Ahead of Saturday's running the DTM and SUPER GT had decided against enforcing a Balance of Performance to equalize the two car types' pace for the first race but they will for Race 2 on Sunday.

Lineup

POS DRIVER CAR TIME GAP
1 Rene Rast Audi 1m45.552s
2 Marco Wittmann BMW 1m45.679s 0.127s
3 Mike Rockenfeller Audi 1m45.783s 0.231s
4 Jonathan Aberdein Audi 1m45.928s 0.376s
5 Loic Duval Audi 1m45.939s 0.387s
6 Jenson Button Honda* 1m46.206s 0.654s
7 Timo Glock BMW 1m46.315s 0.763s
8 Robin Frijns Audi 1m46.351s 0.799s
9 Sheldon van der Linde BMW 1m46.383s 0.831s
10 Joel Eriksson BMW 1m46.628s 1.076s
11 Nico Muller Audi 1m46.789s 1.237s
12 Ferdinand Habsburg Aston Martin 1m46.791s 1.239s
13 Daniel Juncadella Aston Martin 1m46.986s 1.434s
14 Jake Dennis Aston Martin 1m46.988s 1.436s
15 Bruno Spengler BMW 1m47.026s 1.474s
16 Paul Di Resta Aston Martin 1m47.090s 1.538s
17 Philipp Eng BMW 1m47.548s 1.996s
18 Jamie Green Audi 1m47.590s 2.038s
19 Pietro Fittipaldi Audi 1m47.792s 2.240s
20 Ryo Hirakawa Lexus* 1m49.181s 3.629s
21 Tsugio Matsuda Nissan* 1m49.349s 3.797s

*Super GT Cars