António Félix da Costa continued BMW’s dominance at Zandvoort in qualifying for Round 8 of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM), beating stable-mates Bruno Spengler and Augusto Farfus to his first pole in the series.
Da Costa posted the fastest time in the closing minutes of the short 20-minute qualifying session for the second race in The Netherlands, beating Team MTEK’s Spengler by just 0.058 seconds.
Behind third-placed Farfus was Saturday race one winner Marco Wittmann, who ensured that BMW continued to dominate proceedings at the top of the times.
Abt Sportsline’s Miguel Molina was the top Audi driver in fifth, just under two seconds off the pace, despite having earlier held the top time with less than three minutes left in the session.
Saturday pole man Pascal Wehrlein was sixth and the top Mercedes-Benz driver, ahead of BMW’s Timo Glock in seventh, who stopped on the circuit at the end of the session.
A trio of Mercedes drivers completed the top ten, with Daniel Juncadella in eighth ahead of Gary Paffett and Christian Vietoris.
Audi’s championship leaders Jamie Green and Mattias Ekström could only manage 18th and 16th places respectively, despite Green having topped the times early on, giving the duo work to do in the race.
Session results
| POS | NO | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | 13 | António Félix da COSTA |  |
BMW Team Schnitzer | BMW M4 DTM | 8 | 1:30.483 | 0.000 |
| 2 | 7 | Bruno SPENGLER |  |
BMW Team MTEK | BMW M4 DTM | 9 | 1:30.541 | 0.058 |
| 3 | 18 | Augusto FARFUS |  |
BMW Team RBM | BMW M4 DTM | 6 | 1:30.623 | 0.140 |
| 4 | 1 | Marco WITTMANN |  |
BMW Team RMG | BMW M4 DTM | 7 | 1:30.650 | 0.167 |
| 5 | 17 | Miguel MOLINA |  |
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline | Audi RS5 DTM | 8 | 1:30.674 | 0.191 |
| 6 | 94 | Pascal WEHRLEIN | |
gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:30.809 | 0.326 |
| 7 | 16 | Timo GLOCK | |
BMW Team MTEK | BMW M4 DTM | 10 | 1:30.834 | 0.351 |
| 8 | 12 | Daniel JUNCADELLA | |
PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:30.850 | 0.367 |
| 9 | 2 | Gary PAFFETT |  |
EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:30.864 | 0.381 |
| 10 | 8 | Christian VIETORIS | |
gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:30.899 | 0.416 |
| 11 | 36 | Maxime MARTIN |  |
BMW Team RMG | BMW M4 DTM | 8 | 1:30.908 | 0.425 |
| 12 | 48 | Edoardo MORTARA |  |
Audi Sport Team Abt | Audi RS5 DTM | 8 | 1:30.946 | 0.463 |
| 13 | 31 | Tom BLOMQVIST | |
BMW Team RBM | BMW M4 DTM | 8 | 1:30.970 | 0.487 |
| 14 | 84 | Maximilian GÖTZ | |
PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 9 | 1:31.039 | 0.556 |
| 15 | 6 | Robert WICKENS | |
SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:31.116 | 0.633 |
| 16 | 5 | Mattias EKSTRÖM |  |
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline | Audi RS5 DTM | 9 | 1:31.150 | 0.667 |
| 17 | 27 | Adrien TAMBAY |  |
Audi Sport Team Abt | Audi RS5 DTM | 8 | 1:31.218 | 0.735 |
| 18 | 53 | Jamie GREEN | |
Audi Sport Team Rosberg | Audi RS5 DTM | 8 | 1:31.239 | 0.756 |
| 19 | 99 | Mike ROCKENFELLER | |
Audi Sport Team Phoenix | Audi RS5 DTM | 9 | 1:31.308 | 0.825 |
| 20 | 51 | Nico MÜLLER |  |
Audi Sport Team Rosberg | Audi RS5 DTM | 7 | 1:31.394 | 0.911 |
| 21 | 31 | Tom BLOMQVIST | |
BMW Team RBM | BMW M4 DTM | 7 | 1:31.425 | 0.942 |
| 22 | 10 | Timo SCHEIDER | |
Audi Sport Team Phoenix | Audi RS5 DTM | 10 | 1:31.491 | 1.008 |
| 23 | 3 | Paul di RESTA | |
SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 8 | 1:31.505 | 1.022 |
| 24 | 22 | Lucas AUER |  |
EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG | Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM | 7 | 1:31.719 | 1.236 |