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