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Augusto Farfus leads BMW stronghold in first practice

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Team RBM’s Augusto Farfus led a top four clean sweep after the first Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) practice session at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, with the top three drivers separated by just 0.062 seconds.

The Brazilian posted the fastest time of a 1:21.007 around the 3.696km track, with BMW stablemates António Félix da Costa, Tom Blomqvist and Maxime Martin rounding out the top four.

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Title contender Pascal Wehrlein was the fastest of the Mercedes drivers in fifth, with Paul di Resta and Christian Vietoris and Gary Paffett making it four Stuttgart drivers in the top ten, placing sixth, seventh and tenth respectively.

Timo Glock and defending champion Marco Wittmann took eighth and ninth, with BMW taking a dominant grasp on proceedings, where Audi Sport struggled.

Title contenders Edoardo Mortara, who is currently third in the standings, missed out on the top ten by just 0.010 seconds.

Audi had a difficult session generally, as Jamie Green and Mattias Ekström settled for 14th and 17th.

Free practice two starts on Saturday morning at 0820 CEST (0720 BST)

Session results

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 18 Augusto FARFUS BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 19 1:21.007 0.000
2 13 António Félix da COSTA BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 21 1:21.015 0.008
3 31 Tom BLOMQVIST BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 21 1:21.069 0.062
4 36 Maxime MARTIN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 21 1:21.220 0.213
5 94 Pascal WEHRLEIN gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 24 1:21.236 0.229
6 3 Paul di RESTA SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 27 1:21.283 0.276
7 8 Christian VIETORIS gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 20 1:21.307 0.300
8 16 Timo GLOCK BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 21 1:21.327 0.320
9 1 Marco WITTMANN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 20 1:21.427 0.420
10 2 Gary PAFFETT EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 28 1:21.433 0.426
11 48 Edoardo MORTARA Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 19 1:21.443 0.436
12 77 Martin TOMCZYK BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 20 1:21.471 0.464
13 17 Miguel MOLINA Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 22 1:21.529 0.522
14 53 Jamie GREEN Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 22 1:21.553 0.546
15 99 Mike ROCKENFELLER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 26 1:21.616 0.609
16 51 Nico MÜLLER Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 24 1:21.618 0.611
17 5 Mattias EKSTRÖM Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 22 1:21.646 0.639
18 22 Lucas AUER EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 28 1:21.717 0.710
19 10 Timo SCHEIDER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 25 1:21.731 0.724
20 6 Robert WICKENS SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 28 1:21.797 0.790
21 7 Bruno SPENGLER BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 26 1:21.868 0.861
22 27 Adrien TAMBAY Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 21 1:22.000 0.993
23 84 Maximilian GÖTZ PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 28 1:22.039 1.032
24 12 Daniel JUNCADELLA PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 23 1:22.355 1.348

Complete session results.

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