Alexander Albon has scored his first DTM pole position in the #23 Red Bull AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo for the second race at the Nurburgring, setting a 1:36.773 to go two-tenths ahead of Daniel Juncadella in the Mercedes.
Marco Wittmann took third, the gap just 0.098s between the Spaniard on the front row and the German on the second. Guest driver Michael Ammermüller secured a fourth starting spot on the grid alongside Wittmann.
Mercedes-AMG drivers Maximilian Götz and Luca Stolz set exactly the same time, a 1:37.130, and will start alongside each other on the third row.
Runaway championship leader Kelvin van der Linde will start seventh, with Christian Klien in eighth. Mike Rockenfeller and young Belgian driver Esteban Muth will start ninth and tenth respectively, with Liam Lawson, who dropped to third in the championship after yesterday’s point-less round, settling for 11th ahead of Vincent Abril in 12th.
Philip Ellis could only manage 13th after starting on the front row for race one. Alongside him is Arjun Maini, who was 0.023s slower than Ellis.
Sheldon van der Linde will start 16th, with Maximillian Buhk in 17th. Nico Müller is 18th and Hubert Haupt in 19th, while Timo Glock, having a torrid season, will start 20th.
Lucas Auer will start 21st on the last full row, will Markus Winkelhock alongside. Esmee Hawkey rounds out the grid in 23rd.
