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Fastest time for Paul di Resta in final Norisring practice

Paul di RestaMercedes’ Paul di Resta posted the fastest time in the third and final practice session for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters at the Norisring, ahead of Audi duo Timo Scheider and Mattias Ekström.

Scot Di Resta hit the top of the times in the closing seconds of the session to pip Scheider to the best time of the morning, which was just 0.038 seconds slower than the best lap by Christian Vietoris in Saturday qualifying, the quickest yet achieved in the weekend.

Scheider, who finished outside the points in Saturday’s race due to qualifying in 19th on Saturday, had been inside the top ten times throughout the session, before briefly going fastest in the closing seconds and being pipped by Di Resta at the end.

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Ekström continued to show promising pace in third, although wherever he qualifies for race two the Swede will be hit with a three-place grid penalty for causing the controversial race-defining incident in Saturday’s first race.

Lucas Auer was the next-best Mercedes driver in fourth, ahead of the leading BMW of local Marco Wittmann in fifth, who had himself briefly enjoyed a spell at the top of the times early in the session.

Brit Gary Paffett improved on his Saturday pace to end the session in sixth, ahead of Audi’s race one winner Edoardo Mortara in seventh, and Mike Rockenfeller in eighth.

Maxime Martin was the only other BMW driver to break the top ten in ninth, with Adrien Tambay completing in tenth and making it five Audi’s in the top ten in the process.

There were no major incidents in the session, although a number of drivers brushed the walls at Turn 3 as is the norm for the Norisring street circuit. All 24 drivers were covered by less than seven tenths of a second.

Qualifying for race two takes place at 10:50 CEST (09:50 BST).

Session results

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 3 Paul di RESTA Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 27 48.182 0.000
2 10 Timo SCHEIDER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 30 48.216 0.034
3 5 Mattias EKSTRÖM Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 25 48.239 0.057
4 22 Lucas AUER BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 28 48.296 0.114
5 11 Marco WITTMANN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 24 48.297 0.115
6 2 Gary PAFFETT EURONICS/FREE MEN’S WORLD Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 27 48.316 0.134
7 48 Edoardo MORTARA Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 28 48.340 0.158
8 99 Mike ROCKENFELLER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 29 48.348 0.166
9 13 António Félix da COSTA BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 25 48.394 0.212
10 27 Adrien TAMBAY Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 29 48.399 0.217
11 51 Nico MÜLLER Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 31 48.405 0.223
12 6 Robert WICKENS SILBERPFEIL Energy/UBFS Invest Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 48.406 0.224
13 53 Jamie GREEN Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 25 48.424 0.242
14 31 Tom BLOMQVIST BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 21 48.432 0.250
15 7 Bruno SPENGLER BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 24 48.457 0.275
16 84 Maximilian GÖTZ Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 30 48.465 0.283
17 36 Maxime MARTIN BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 26 48.483 0.301
18 12 Daniel JUNCADELLA SILBERPFEIL Energy/UBFS Invest Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 24 48.546 0.364
19 34 Esteban OCON EURONICS/FREE MEN’S WORLD Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 29 48.566 0.384
20 17 Miguel MOLINA Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 28 48.574 0.392
21 100 Martin TOMCZYK BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 26 48.667 0.485
22 8 Christian VIETORIS BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 30 48.793 0.611
23 18 Augusto FARFUS BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 24 48.818 0.636
24 16 Timo GLOCK BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 24 48.841 0.659

Complete session results.

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