Martin gets first career DTM pole in Moscow

Maxime Martin secured his first DTM pole position at Moscow Raceway.

The Belgian, in his first season of DTM racing, comfortably progressed through Q1 with the fifth best time, before topping Q2 with a 1m28.523s, the fastest lap that has been set so far this weekend. Martin then capped off a stand out session with a 1m28.619s lap a minute from the end of Q3 to secure his first career pole and BMW's third of the season so far.

Bruno Spengler made it a BMW 1-2 with second, despite the 2012 series champion barely scraping into Q3 with the seventh fastest time. He was one of only two drivers to better his Q2 time in Q3, resulting in a front row start.

Practice pacesetter Nico Muller finished third in his Abt Audi, narrowly edging out Phoenix Audi driver Mike Rockenfeller, who will start fourth.

Adrien Tambay, the only driver other than Spengler to improve between Q2 and Q3, qualified fifth, ahead of Augusto Farfus, Marco Wittmann and Miguel Molina.

Briton Jamie Green and former Formula 1 driver Timo Glock rounded out the top 10, while Mattias Ekstrom was just 11th, having been in the top three in both practice sessions.

Meanwhile, Mercedes' miserable start to the weekend continued in qualifying. Norisring winner Robert Wickens was the best placed Mercedes in 14th, while Pascal Wehrlein, Gary Paffett, Christian Vietoris and Vitaly Petrov occupied the bottom four spots.

Daniel Juncadella and Paul di Resta did manage to join Wickens in Q2, but qualified 15th and 18th respectively.

BMW's Martin Tomczyk was the only non-Mercedes to be eliminated from Q1, but despite actually qualifying 19th, he will start 22nd thanks to a carryover penalty for tagging Paffett during the Norisring race.