Tambay to start from pole today for DTM season opener
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| Adrien Tambay |
The first pole position of the season goes to Adrien Tambay. With a time of 1:32.272 minutes at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg, the Audi driver secured the first fastest qualifying time of the year. It is also his maiden pole position in the DTM. His margin over second-placed Marco Wittmann (BMW) was 0.147 seconds.
Bruno Spengler (BMW) will be starting from third place after the time of Antonio Felix da Costa (BMW), who initially was third, had been cancelled. The clerk of the course had another look at this decision after qualifying, but eventually confirmed it.
The Portuguese ended up fourth. Gary Paffett was the fastest driver with a DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé in 15th place.
Results
| Pos | Driver | Team/Car | Time | Behind |
| 1. | Adrien Tambay | Abt Audi | 1m32.272s | +0.000s |
| 2. | Marco Wittmann | RMG BMW | 1m32.419s | +0.147s |
| 3. | Bruno Spengler | Schnitzer BMW | 1m32.600s | +0.328s |
| 4. | Antonio Felix da Costa | MTEK BMW | 1m32.608s | +0.336s |
| 5. | Mattias Ekstrom | Abt Audi | 1m32.624s | +0.352s |
| 6. | Miguel Molina | Abt Audi | 1m32.787s | +0.515s |
| 7. | Edoardo Mortara | Abt Audi | 1m32.898s | +0.626s |
| 8. | Martin Tomczyk | Schnitzer BMW | 1m33.113s | +0.841s |
| 9. | Timo Glock | MTEK BMW | 1m32.603s | Q2 |
| 10. | Timo Scheider | Phoenix Audi | 1m32.706s | Q2 |
| 11. | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix Audi | 1m32.717s | Q2 |
| 12. | Augusto Farfus | RBM BMW | 1m32.739s | Q2 |
| 13. | Nico Muller | Rosberg Audi | 1m32.756s | Q2 |
| 14. | Maxime Martin | RMG BMW | 1m32.792s | Q2 |
| 15. | Gary Paffett | HWA Mercedes | 1m32.834s | Q2 |
| 16. | Pascal Wehrlein | HWA Mercedes | 1m32.840s | Q2 |
| 17. | Joey Hand | RBM BMW | 1m32.885s | Q1 |
| 18. | Jamie Green | Rosberg Audi | 1m32.986s | Q1 |
| 19. | Paul di Resta | HWA Mercedes | 1m33.639s | Q1 |
| 20. | Daniel Juncadella | Mucke Mercedes | 1m33.746s | Q1 |
| 21. | Robert Wickens | HWA Mercedes | 1m33.875s | Q1 |
| 22. | Christian Vietoris | HWA Mercedes | 1m34.242s | Q1 |
| 23. | Vitaly Petrov | Mucke Mercedes | 1m34.367s | Q1 |