Lubner Motorsport’s Dino Calcum has put his Opel Astra TCR on pole position for the third round of the ADAC TCR Germany championship, held at the picturesque Red Bull Ring in Austria this weekend.
The 27-year old German has beaten the three Honda cars of Kris Richard (Target Competition UK-SUI), Steve Kirsch and Moritz Oestrreich (both Honda Team ADAC Sachsen), who set the second to fourth fastest times respectively.
Just behind the Honda trio, Mike Halder (Wolf-Power Racing 2, SEAT) beat Antti Buri (LMS Racing, Audi) to fifth place on the grid. Halder was the only SEAT driver to make it into the top 12 shoot-out.
Youngster Luca Engstler (Junior Team Engstler, Volkswagen) was just 0.008 seconds off Buri’s time, putting him into seventh place. The son of touring car veteran Franz Engstler is thus going to share a starting row with defending series’ champion Josh Files (Target Competition UK-SUI, Honda) who put his Honda Civic Type R TCR into eighth.
The fifth starting row has been claimed entirely by the two Aust Motorsport Audi RS3 LMS TCR cars of Sandro Kaibach and Robin Brezina – the second rookie driver after Engstler to make it into the top 12 shoot-out.
Jose Rodrigues (Target Competition AUT-POR, Honda) only set the eleventh fastest time, qualifying in front of Niels Langeveld (Racing One, Audi), who turned no laps.
Race one of the weekend is set to start on Saturday at 14:50 CEST (13:50 BST), with race two following on Sunday at 15:40 CEST (14:40 BST).
Q2 results
| POS | NO | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | 36 | Dino CALCUM |  |
Lubner Motorsport | Opel Astra TCR | 6 | 1:36.945 | 0.000 |
| 2 | 94 | Kris RICHARD |  |
Target Competition | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 5 | 1:37.214 | 0.269 |
| 3 | 41 | Steve KIRSCH | |
Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 6 | 1:37.277 | 0.332 |
| 4 | 88 | Moritz OESTREICH | |
Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 3 | 1:37.371 | 0.426 |
| 5 | 7 | Mike HALDER | |
Wolf-Power Racing 2 | SEAT León TCR | 6 | 1:37.726 | 0.781 |
| 6 | 10 | Antti BURI |  |
LMS Racing | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 6 | 1:37.839 | 0.894 |
| 7 | 8 | Luca ENGSTLER | |
Junior Team Engstler | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 5 | 1:37.847 | 0.902 |
| 8 | 1 | Josh FILES |  |
Target Competition UK-SUI | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 3 | 1:37.851 | 0.906 |
| 9 | 44 | Sandro KAIBACH | |
Aust Motorsport | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 6 | 1:38.274 | 1.329 |
| 10 | 24 | Robin BREZINA | |
Aust Motorsport | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 5 | 1:38.319 | 1.374 |
| 11 | 27 | José RODRIGUES |  |
Target Competition 2 | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 5 | 1:38.364 | 1.419 |
| 12 | 14 | Niels LANGEVELD |  |
Racing One | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 0 | No time | N/A |
Q1 results
| POS | NO | DRIVER | NAT | ENTRANT | CAR | LAPS | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | 36 | Dino CALCUM | |
Lubner Motorsport | Opel Astra TCR | 5 | 1:37.314 | 0.000 |
| 2 | 41 | Steve KIRSCH | |
Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 6 | 1:37.355 | 0.041 |
| 3 | 10 | Antti BURI | |
LMS Racing | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 11 | 1:37.671 | 0.357 |
| 4 | 88 | Moritz OESTREICH | |
Team Honda ADAC Sachsen | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 6 | 1:37.684 | 0.370 |
| 5 | 27 | José RODRIGUES | |
Target Competition 2 | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 5 | 1:37.851 | 0.537 |
| 6 | 7 | Mike HALDER | |
Wolf-Power Racing 2 | SEAT León TCR | 9 | 1:37.873 | 0.559 |
| 7 | 94 | Kris RICHARD | |
Target Competition | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 12 | 1:37.934 | 0.620 |
| 8 | 8 | Luca ENGSTLER | |
Junior Team Engstler | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 6 | 1:37.962 | 0.648 |
| 9 | 14 | Niels LANGEVELD | |
Racing One | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 11 | 1:38.002 | 0.688 |
| 10 | 44 | Sandro KAIBACH | |
Aust Motorsport | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 9 | 1:38.027 | 0.713 |
| 11 | 24 | Robin BREZINA | |
Aust Motorsport | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 9 | 1:38.053 | 0.739 |
| 12 | 18 | Sheldon VAN DER LINDE |  |
Prosport Performance | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 10 | 1:38.081 | 0.767 |
| 13 | 1 | Josh FILES | |
Target Competition UK-SUI | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 8 | 1:38.105 | 0.791 |
| 14 | 20 | Niko KANKKUNEN | |
LMS Racing | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 10 | 1:38.112 | 0.798 |
| 15 | 17 | Jasmin PREISIG | |
Lubner Motorsport | Opel Astra TCR | 11 | 1:38.117 | 0.803 |
| 16 | 77 | Juuso-Matti PAJURANTA | |
Positione Motorsport | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 6 | 1:38.146 | 0.832 |
| 17 | 11 | Jürgen SCHMARL |  |
Target Competition AUT-POR | Honda Civic Type R TCR | 11 | 1:38.159 | 0.845 |
| 18 | 22 | Harald PROCZYK | |
HP Racing | SEAT León TCR | 8 | 1:38.221 | 0.907 |
| 19 | 39 | Florian THOMA | |
Junior Team Engstler | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 10 | 1:38.240 | 0.926 |
| 20 | 38 | Jason WOLFE |  |
Team Engstler USA | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 10 | 1:38.246 | 0.932 |
| 21 | 98 | Tom LAUTENSCHLAGER | |
Target Competition | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 8 | 1:38.368 | 1.054 |
| 22 | 66 | Ronny JOST | |
TOPCAR Sport | SEAT León TCR | 11 | 1:38.425 | 1.111 |
| 23 | 42 | Lukas NIEDERTSCHEIDER | |
Niedertscheider MSP | SEAT León TCR | 6 | 1:38.478 | 1.164 |
| 24 | 12 | Simon LARSSON |  |
Target Competition SWE-POL | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 8 | 1:38.484 | 1.170 |
| 25 | 3 | Gosia RDEST |  |
Target Competition SWE-POL | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 12 | 1:38.524 | 1.210 |
| 26 | 19 | Max HOFER | |
Prosport Performance | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 7 | 1:38.553 | 1.239 |
| 27 | 28 | Pascal EBERLE | |
Steibel Motorsport | SEAT León TCR | 5 | 1:38.562 | 1.248 |
| 28 | 2 | Alex MORGAN | |
Wolf-Power Racing 2 | SEAT León TCR | 11 | 1:38.660 | 1.346 |
| 29 | 99 | Tim ZIMMERMANN | |
Target Competition | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 9 | 1:38.678 | 1.364 |
| 30 | 54 | Simon REICHER | |
Certainty Racing Team | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 10 | 1:38.753 | 1.439 |
| 31 | 35 | Rudolf RHYN | |
TOPCAR Sport | SEAT León TCR | 12 | 1:38.793 | 1.479 |
| 32 | 82 | Thomas KRAMWINKEL | |
GermanFLAVOURS Racing | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 11 | 1:38.938 | 1.624 |
| 33 | 9 | Stefan GOEDE | |
Team Engstler USA | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 10 | 1:39.077 | 1.763 |
| 34 | 40 | Dillon KOSTER | |
Certainty Racing Team | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 9 | 1:39.129 | 1.815 |
| 35 | 78 | Fabian DANZ | |
Schläppi Race-Tec | SEAT León Cup Racer | 9 | 1:39.161 | 1.847 |
| 36 | 23 | Sebastien STEIBEL | |
Steibel Motorsport | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 10 | 1:39.187 | 1.873 |
| 37 | 64 | Sven MARKERT | |
GermanFLAVOURS Racing | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 11 | 1:39.683 | 2.369 |
| 38 | 84 | Maurits SANDBERG | |
Racing One 2 | Audi RS3 LMS TCR | 12 | 1:39.689 | 2.375 |
| 39 | 13 | Kai JORDAN | |
Racing One | Volkswagen Golf Gti TCR | 9 | 1:39.690 | 2.376 |