Miguel Molina takes Oschersleben pole

Audi’s Miguel Molina has taken pole for the second round of the 2014 DTM season at Oschesleben ahead of Marco Wittmann and Adrien Tambay.

The pole position is the second of the Spaniard’s DTM career, and he completed a four-lap run in the final part of qualifying to secure it with a best time of 1m20.007 to;  over half a second clear of  Wittmann’s BMW.

DTM rookie Antonio Felix da Costa was fourth in his BMW M4 DTM, ahead of two former DTM title winners, the Phoenix Audi pairing of Timo Scheider and Timo Mike Rockenfeller who will line up fifth and sixth respectively.

The 2012 DTM champion Bruno Spengler was eighth ahead of Abt Audi’s Edoardo Mortara.

Last year’s Oschersleben winner Augusto Farfus missed out on the top-eight shoot-out and will line up ninth, ahead of Mercedes’ Pascal Wehrlein who rounded out the top-10 for Mercedes.

After spending most of the first part of qualifying at the top of the time-sheets, the 2013 Oschersleben pole-sitter Jamie Green was 11^th, ahead of Audi stable-mate and double DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom.

Timo Glock’s woes continued after the ex-Formula 1 driver qualified 19^th in his MTEK run BMW M4 DTM. In the morning practice session, Glock managed only three laps as a result of a technical problem.

The HWA and Mucke Mercedes outfits also had yet another trying time. Robert Wickens will line up 20^th ahead of DTM returnee Paul di Resta and Dani Juncadella.

Vitaly Petrov’s tough start to his DTM career as like at the Hockenheim season opener, he qualified 23^rd and last.