Rast beats Green for Lausitzring pole
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| Rene Rast |
Rene Rast took his sixth pole position of the 2019 DTM season at the Lausitzring, beating Audi teammate and title rival Nico Muller with a lap of 1m35.241s.
Muller crossed the line just after Rast and placed third with a 1m35.438s lap, with Audi's Jamie Green splitting the two title rivals.
Audi locked out the top four positions with Robin Frijns beating BMW's Marco Wittmann to fourth.
Race 1 Grid
| POS | DRIVER | TEAM | TIME | GAP |
| 1 | Rene Rast | Rosberg | 1m35.241s | 0.000s |
| 2 | Jamie Green | Rosberg | 1m35.286s | 0.045s |
| 3 | Nico Muller | Abt | 1m35.438s | 0.197s |
| 4 | Robin Frijns | Abt | 1m35.537s | 0.296s |
| 5 | Marco Wittmann | RMG | 1m35.581s | 0.340s |
| 6 | Mike Rockenfeller | Phoenix | 1m35.595s | 0.354s |
| 7 | Pietro Fittipaldi | WRT | 1m35.736s | 0.495s |
| 8 | Philipp Eng | RMR | 1m35.760s | 0.519s |
| 9 | Timo Glock | RMR | 1m35.926s | 0.685s |
| 10 | Joel Eriksson | RBM | 1m35.970s | 0.729s |
| 11 | Loic Duval | Phoenix | 1m36.001s | 0.760s |
| 12 | Bruno Spengler | RMG | 1m36.052s | 0.811s |
| 13 | Jake Dennis | R-Motorsport | 1m36.134s | 0.893s |
| 14 | Jonathan Aberdein | WRT | 1m36.189s | 0.948s |
| 15 | Sheldon van der Linde | RBM | 1m36.198s | 0.957s |
| 16 | Paul Di Resta | R-Motorsport | 1m36.524s | 1.283s |
| 17 | Daniel Juncadella | R-Motorsport | 1m37.012s | 1.771s |
| 18 | Ferdinand Habsburg | R-Motorsport | 1m38.487s | 3.246s |