By alley - Sep 24, 2016, 8:01 AM ET

DTM: Mortara on pole as Audi locks out top eight

Championship contender Edoardo Mortara grabbed pole for Saturday's opening DTM race at the Hungaroring as Audi dominated qualifying.

Abt Sportline driver Mortara led for much of the session after the initial timed runs, before Jamie Green jumped to provisional pole inside the final five minutes of the 20-minute session. But Mortara saved his best until last, setting a fastest lap of 1m35.282s after the checkered flag had fallen to usurp Green by 0.082 seconds.

With the Audi RS5 set at only 11 pounds above its base weight of 2,400 pounds, the lead two duo led an Audi lockout of the first four rows with all eight of the manufacturer's cars qualifying in the top eight.

Abt driver Miguel Molina will share the second row with Mike Rockenfeller, while Molina's teammate Nico Muller took fifth ahead of Adrien Tambay.

Timo Scheider and Mattias Ekstrom completed the Audi rout in seventh and eighth, respectively.

Felix Rosenqvist put in a stellar performance to get the best out of his Mercedes C63, set 66 pounds above the weight of the Audi, and the Swede was best of the rest in ninth.

He outqualified championship leader Marco Wittmann, who was fastest of the BMW contingent in 10th.

Wittmann, who has a 33-point advantage over Mortara in the championship, was 0.611s off the polesitter's time, and he heads fellow BMW drivers Tom Blomqvist, Martin Tomczyk and Timo Glock on the grid.

Mercedes' main title contender Robert Wickens qualified 18th.

QUALIFYING RESULTS

Pos	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	Edoardo Mortara	Abt	Audi	1m35.282s	8
2	Jamie Green	Rosberg	Audi	0.082s	8
3	Miguel Molina	Abt	Audi	0.167s	8
4	Mike Rockenfeller	Phoenix	Audi	0.216s	8
5	Nico Muller	Abt	Audi	0.243s	8
6	Adrien Tambay	Rosberg	Audi	0.307s	9
7	Timo Scheider	Phoenix	Audi	0.471s	7
8	Mattias Ekstrom	Abt	Audi	0.528s	10
9	Felix Rosenqvist	ART	Mercedes	0.588s	7
10	Marco Wittmann	RMG	BMW	0.611s	8
11	Tom Blomqvist	RBM	BMW	0.641s	7
12	Martin Tomczyk	Schnitzer	BMW	0.644s	6
13	Timo Glock	RMG	BMW	0.669s	7
14	Maxime Martin	RBM	BMW	0.704s	7
15	Antonio Felix da Costa	Schnitzer	BMW	0.710s	4
16	Daniel Juncadella	HWA	Mercedes	0.741s	8
17	Christian Vietoris	Mucke	Mercedes	0.763s	7
18	Robert Wickens	HWA	Mercedes	0.799s	8
19	Gary Paffett	ART	Mercedes	0.936s	6
20	Augusto Farfus	MTEK	BMW	0.952s	8
21	Bruno Spengler	MTEK	BMW	1.107s	8
22	Paul Di Resta	HWA	Mercedes	1.126s	9
23	Lucas Auer	Mucke	Mercedes	1.246s	9
24	Maximilian Gotz	HWA	Mercedes	1.355s	7