By DTM

For the second season round of the DTM at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Timo Scheider is on pole once again. With his Audi A4 DTM, he set a fastest lap time of 1.21.146 minutes.

Dane, Tom Kristensen, was second fastest in qualifying, 0.132 seconds down. German driver Martin Tomczyk in third place was followed by Oliver Jarvis who showed a surprising performance again, becoming fastest driver with a year-old car in fourth place.

The Audi quartet was followed by Canadian Bruno Spengler as the fastest Mercedes-Benz driver.

Reigning DTM champion, Mattias Ekström from Sweden, will be starting eighth into the race on Sunday (ARD from 13.45 h live). The two Mercedes-Benz drivers Paul di Resta (SCO) and Jamie Green (GB) will be lining up in front of him.

Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes-Benz) was very happy with his second outing in the DTM. With a tiny margin of 48 thousandths of a second over his fellow Mercedes-Benz driver Maro Engel, he moved up into the second heat and eventually came out 13th.


Bruno Spengler (5th grid position, Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG Mercedes):
"Fifth place on the grid is very disappointing. When I would have known what the reason is, we would have been further up to the front. I am starting from the third row and I am on the clean line. From there, anything is possible with a good start. I firmly believe in our potential of still making it onto the podium tomorrow."