Molina takes dominant DTM pole at Oschersleben

Miguel Molina will start the second DTM race of the season at Oschersleben from pole position. The Abt Audi driver was unstoppable, backing up his practice form by going fastest in Q1, second fastest in Q2, and then destroying the field with a stunning 1m20.007s in the deciding final segment of qualifying to secure pole position.

Hockenheim winner Marco Wittman qualified second, despite the RMG BMW driver's best lap being more than half a second slower than that of Molina. The gap back to Molina's third-placed teammate Adrien Tambay was much smaller, just 0.003sec keeping the Frenchman off the front row of the grid.

Antonio Felix da Costa showed his Hockenheim form was no fluke, the rookie qualifying fourth ahead of the Phoenix Audi pair of Timo Scheider and Mike Rockenfeller. Bruno Spengler and Edoardo Mortara were seventh and eighth, the final two positions decided by Q3.

Augusto Farfus was ninth, ahead of Pascal Wehrlein, who was by far the best of the Mercedes drivers with 10th. Jamie Green was 11th.

Apart from Wehrlein's relatively good result, Mercedes' poor start to the season continued, four of the five cars eliminated in Q1 coming out of Stuttgart.

Robert Wickens, Paul di Resta, Daniel Juncadella and Vitaly Petrov anchored the grid, with MTEK BMW's Timo Glock joining them on the sidelines after being hampered by a power steering problem.

Christian Vietoris and Garry Paffett followed Wehrlein into Q2, but could manage just 17th and 18th, respectively.