Jamie Green takes pole for Hockenheim race one

Audi Sport’s Jamie Green took pole position for the first race of the 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) season this morning, ahead of Mercedes’ Pascal Wehrlein and BMW’s Augusto Farfus.

With overcast but dry conditions, the Brit posted a time of a 1:33.044 around the 4.574km track to secure his first true pole position since 2006. He was just 0.116 seconds ahead of the Mercedes AMG F1 reserve driver. Farfus suffered a technical issue on his final attempt, as the Brazilian tried his level best to usurp Green in the latest stages.

The first session under the new qualifying format was intense, as some drivers made use of two or even three sets of tyres over the 20-minute session.

Apart from Farfus’ BMW, Mercedes’ Christian Vietoris went off track exiting SachsKurve, which resulted on his C63 AMG bouncing over the grass and damaging part of the bodywork in the process. The ex-GP2 driver ended up 18th for today’s race this afternoon, behind Antonió Félix da Costa.

Edoardo Mortara, who set the initial pace in both free practice sessions, took fourth, ahead of Team Rosberg’s Nico Müller and Mercedes’ Paul Di Resta. 2013 Champion Mike Rockenfeller, Adrien Tambay and Miguel Molina placed seventh, eighth and tenth for this afternoon’s race, with Tom Blomqvist being the highest placed rookie driver in ninth.

Despite Audi Sport having held the top six spots early on in qualifying, double champions Mattias Ekström and Timo Scheider will have a potentially difficult fight on their hands from 11th and 13th, being separated by Team RMG’s Maxime Martin.

Martin’s team mate, defending champion Marco Wittmann, had a bad start to his title defence, as the German will start 16th, behind the Mercedes pair of Daniel Juncadella and Gary Paffett.

Former Schnitzer team mates, Bruno Spengler and Martin Tomczyk, rounded out the top twenty drivers, ahead of Maximilian Götz, Timo Glock, Robert Wickens and Lucas Auer.

Round 1 of the 2015 DTM season gets underway at 14.48 CEST (1348 GMT) this afternoon.

Session results

POS	NO	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	53	Jamie GREEN		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	9	1:33.044	0.000
2	94	Pascal WEHRLEIN		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	9	1:33.160	0.116
3	18	Augusto FARFUS		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	11	1:33.310	0.266
4	48	Edoardo MORTARA		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	8	1:33.331	0.287
5	51	Nico MÜLLER		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	9	1:33.338	0.294
6	3	Paul di RESTA		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	7	1:33.340	0.296
7	99	Mike ROCKENFELLER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	10	1:33.342	0.298
8	27	Adrien TAMBAY		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	7	1:33.342	0.298
9	31	Tom BLOMQVIST		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	11	1:33.358	0.314
10	17	Miguel MOLINA		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	7	1:33.489	0.445
11	5	Mattias EKSTRÖM		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	8	1:33.502	0.458
12	36	Maxime MARTIN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	8	1:33.526	0.482
13	10	Timo SCHEIDER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	9	1:33.567	0.523
14	12	Daniel JUNCADELLA		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	10	1:33.580	0.536
15	2	Gary PAFFETT		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	9	1:33.582	0.538
16	1	Marco WITTMANN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	8	1:33.591	0.547
17	13	António Félix da COSTA		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	13	1:33.604	0.560
18	8	Christian VIETORIS		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	10	1:33.621	0.577
19	7	Bruno SPENGLER		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	9	1:33.652	0.608
20	77	Martin TOMCZYK		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	13	1:33.842	0.798
21	84	Maximilian GÖTZ		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	11	1:34.056	1.012
22	16	Timo GLOCK		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	9	1:34.109	1.065
23	6	Robert WICKENS		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	8	1:34.121	1.077
24	22	Lucas AUER		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé	8	1:34.168	1.124

Complete session results