Marco Wittmann took pole in the #11 BMW Walkenhorst Motorsport for the second DTM race of the weekend at Zolder with a 1:26.687, two tenths ahead of the #22 Mercedes-AMG Team Winward of Lucas Auer.
That means the rapid German BMW factory driver has started on the front row of both races at the Belgian circuit, as he started second for race 1. The session was shortened due to Timo Glock stopping on track with a technical issue in the #16 BMW ROWE Racing.
Mike Rockenfeller in the #9 Audi ABT Sportsline will start third, alongside teammate and championship leader Kelvin van der Linde in the #3 Audi ABT Sportsline.
Daniel Juncadella will start fifth in the #8 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing, with Nico Müller in the #51 Audi Team Rosberg just 7 tenths behind, who will start sixth.
Liam Lawson, championship challenger and the fastest Ferrari in the session, will start seventh in the #30 Ferrari Red Bull AF Corse. He’ll need to make quick progress if he wants to overhaul van der Linde, on a track that is notoriously difficult to overtake on.
Christian Klien put in a great lap to start eighth in the #15 JP Motorsport McLaren, a significant improvement on Saturday’s 16th.
The two Maximillians will start ninth and tenth: #4 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT’s Maximillian Götz ahead of #18 Mercedes-AMG Mücke Motorsport’s Maximillian Buhk.
Esmee Hawkey, in the #26 Lamborghini T3 Motorsport, will start eleventh, with Alex Albon, Saturday’s third-place finisher, in 12th in the #23 Ferrari AlphaTauri AF Corse.
On the seventh row American Dev Gore starts 13th in the #12 Audi Team Rosberg, with Vinncent Abril alongside in the #5 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT.
#10 Lamborghini T3 Motorsport’s Esteban Muth will start 15th, the 19-year-old ahead of the second of the van der Linde brothers, Sheldon, in the #31 BMW ROWE Racing car.
On the final complete row, Sophia Floersch in the #99 Audi Team ABT will start the race alongside #57 Mercedes-AMG Team Winward’s Philip Ellis.
Glock’s technical issue means he’ll start from the back of the grid for the race. Finally, #36 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed’s Arjun Maini has withdrawn from the rest of the weekend, due to issues sustained in the lap 1 crash on Saturday.
