Miguel Molina - Photo Credit: dtm.com
Miguel Molina claimed his second DTM pole position in the space of three races by coming out on top in qualifying for the season finale at Hockenheim.
After topping the Q3 session, the Spaniard was the last man to run in the decisive Q4 session. Neither Mike Rockenfeller nor Martin Tomczyk had managed to better HWA Mercedes driver Jamie Green's effort after the Briton was the first of the quartet to go. Molina duly improved on Green's benchmark by 0.203s to score his second DTM pole to add to the one he claimed at Oschersleben.
Behind the front row pair, recently-crowned champion Tomczyk will still be amongst the favourites for victory starting from third, with Rockenfeller in fourth.
Timo Scheider and Bruno Spengler will share the third row of the grid after failing to make it into Q4, with Brits Gary Paffett and Oliver Jarvis lining up on the fourth row and looking for strong finishes to difficult years for Mercedes and Audi respectively.
Filipe Albuquerque and Mattias Ekstrom – winner of the past two races – will start from ninth and tenth after being knocked out at the end of Q2 when Edoardo Mortara crashed as the checkered flag went out. The Italian driver will start 11th, ahead of the Mercedes of Christian Vietoris, Ralf Schumacher and Renger van der Zande.
Maro Engel and David Coulthard will start off the penultimate row of the grid, with female racers Susie Wolff (nee Stoddart) and Rahel Frey bringing up the rear.
Qualifying results
| Pos. | Driver / Entrant / Car | Time | Session |
| 1. | Miguel Molina Audi Sport Team Abt Junior Red Bull Audi A4 DTM |
1:32.717 | Q4 |
| 2. | Jamie Green AMG Mercedes AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:32.920 | Q4 |
| 3. | Martin Tomczyk Audi Sport Team Phoenix Schaeffler Audi A4 DTM |
1:33.039 | Q4 |
| 4. | Mike Rockenfeller Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline E-POSTBRIEF Audi A4 DTM |
1:33.510 | Q4 |
| 5. | Timo Scheider Audi Sport Team Abt AUTO TEST Audi A4 DTM |
1:32.883 | Q3 |
| 6. | Bruno Spengler Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Klasse |
1:32.922 | Q3 |
| 7. | Gary Paffett Thomas Sabo AMG Mercedes Thomas Sabo AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.103 | Q3 |
| 8. | Oliver Jarvis Audi Sport Team Abt Audi Sport performance cars A4 DTM |
1:33.188 | Q3 |
| 9. | Filipe Albuquerque Audi Sport Team Rosberg TV Movie Audi A4 DTM |
1:33.085 | Q2 |
| 10. | Mattias Ekström Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Red Bull Audi A4 DTM |
1:33.103 | Q2 |
| 11. | Edoardo Mortara Audi Sport Team Rosberg Playboy Audi A4 DTM |
1:33.144 | Q2 |
| 12. | Christian Vietoris Junge Sterne AMG Mercedes Junge Sterne AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.172 | Q2 |
| 13. | Ralf Schumacher Salzgitter AMG Mercedes Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.352 | Q2 |
| 14. | Renger van der Zande stern AMG Mercedes stern AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.617 | Q2 |
| 15. | Maro Engel GQ AMG Mercedes GQ AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.539 | Q1 |
| 16. | David Coulthard Deutsche Post AMG Mercedes Deutsche Post AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.761 | Q1 |
| 17. | Susie Wolff TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes TV Spielfilm AMG Mercedes C-Klasse |
1:33.930 | Q1 |
| 18. | Rahel Frey Audi Sport Team Phoenix Glamour Audi A4 DTM |
1:34.090 | Q1 |
