Saturday, May 30, 2015

DTM: Miguel Molina takes race 1 pole position, Audi domination at the Lausitzring


By Tarek Ramchani

It was a complete Audi domination in the DTM race 1 qualifying session. A brilliant 1-2-3-4 for the Audi RS 5 DTM cars at the Lausitzring.

Pole position went to Migual Molina and his red #17 Audi RS 5 DTM. The Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline driver set the best time in the session, 1:17.438.

Jaime Green was second fastest driving the #53 Audi RS 5 DTM. The British driver at Audi Sport Team Rosberg set a personal best time of 1:17.559 and was only 0.121 behind Molina's time.


Thrid place went to Edoardo Mortara. The Italian driver set a personal best time of 1:17.564 with his Castrol backed #48 Audi RS 5 DTM from Audi Sport Team Abt.

Mattias Ekstrom (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline) was fourth. Timo Scheider (Audi Sport Team Phoenix) narrowly missed the Top 10 and ended in eleventh place.

Mike Rockenfeller (Audi Sport Team Phoenix) was fourteenth. Nico Mueller (Audi Sport Team Rosberg) was sxiteenth. Adrien Tambay (Audi Sport Team Abt) had no time.

Race 1 will follow next, a 40-minute event.

Photo credit: Audi Media