Paffett strong at his home round: pole for the points’ leader

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05/19/12
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Paffett strong at his home round: pole for the points’ leader

Gary Paffett

Gary Paffett (Mercedes-Benz) will be starting from pole position for his home round at Brands Hatch on Sunday. In the shoot-out qualifying, the Briton set the fastest lap time of 41.266 seconds and secured the first starting grid position for the third round of the 2012 DTM season. For Paffett, it is the ninth pole position of his DTM career. His fellow Mercedes-Benz driver Christian Vietoris will be lining up next to him on the front row. The German came within 0.144 seconds of Paffett’s fastest time. Bruno Spengler (BMW) and Mike Rockenfeller (Audi) will be on the second row in third and fourth position respectively.

Qualifying results:

Pos	Driver	Team/Car	Time	Gap
1.	Gary Paffett	HWA Mercedes	41.266s	+0.000s
2.	Christian Vietoris	HWA Mercedes	41.410s	+0.144s
3.	Bruno Spengler	Schnitzer BMW	41.462s	+0.196s
4.	Mike Rockenfeller	Abt Audi	41.484s	+0.218s
5.	Martin Tomczyk	RMG BMW	41.101s	Q3
6.	Filipe Albuquerque	Rosberg Audi	41.142s	Q3
7.	Adrien Tambay	Abt Audi	41.156s	Q3
8.	Mattias Ekstrom	Abt Audi	41.163s	Q3
9.	Augusto Farfus	RBM BMW	41.172s	Q3
10.	Jamie Green	HWA Mercedes	41.284s	Q3
11.	Edoardo Mortara	Rosberg Audi	41.381s	Q2
12.	Miguel Molina	Phoenix Audi	41.392s	Q2
13.	Joey Hand	RMG BMW	41.399s	Q2
14.	Andy Priaulx	RBM BMW	41.403s	Q2
15.	Timo Scheider	Abt Audi	41.479s	Q2
16.	Roberto Merhi	Persson Mercedes	41.524s	Q2
17.	Robert Wickens	Mucke Mercedes	41.584s	Q1
18.	Ralf Schumacher	HWA Mercedes	41.587s	Q1
19.	Dirk Werner	Schnitzer BMW	41.655s	Q1
20.	David Coulthard	Mucke Mercedes	41.657s	Q1
21.	Susie Wolff	Persson Mercedes	41.677s	Q1
22.	Rahel Frey	Abt Audi	41.956s	Q1

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