Liam Lawson has taken pole position for the Saturday DTM race at Assen in a session that was briefly red flagged.
Lawson topped the session with a best time of 01:32:186 in his Red Bull AF Corse Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo to go quickest. The Kiwi was just 0.016s faster than title rival Marco Wittmann in second place.
The session at the Dutch MotoGP venue was briefly red flagged to to a spin for Team Rosberg’s Dev Gore. Lawson had already posted his quickest lap prior to that, which proved just enough to hold off Wittmann. Maximilian Götz qualified third for Team HRT, with Philip Ellis fourth for Team Winward.
Klien demoted, Van der Linde to fifth
Kelvin van der Linde will start the race from fifth place. The points leader initially took seventh place in his Abt Sportsline behind the pair of former Red Bull F1 drivers Christian Klien and Alex Albon.
Both drivers, however, saw their fastest laps deleted after the chequered flag and were dropped back outside the top ten. Albon will start the race from fourteenth, while Klien will start sixteenth
This allowed Van der Linde to move up to fifth on the grid, 0.258s behind his championship rival.
Nico Müller moved to sixth, Vincent Abril to seventh and Sheldon van der Linde was promoted to eighth. Arjun Maini was bumped up to eighth, with Maximilian Buhk completing the top ten.
Gore spins
The Saturday morning session at Assen was briefly interrupted when most drivers went out on track for their second runs due to a spin from Dev Gore.
The American DTM rookie spun his Team Rosberg Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo and caused the session to be stopped, with trackside officials also inspecting some of the kerbs after the off.
Gore took no further part in the session and will start the race from 21st and last place.
