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Brands Hatch DTM: Paffett beats di Resta to pole
DTM championship leader Gary Paffett beat title rival Paul di Resta to pole for Sunday's second race at Brands Hatch as Mercedes drivers locked out the top three positions.
Jack Cozens
Edited: Aug 12, 2018, 10:56 AM
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Paffett set the fastest time of the weekend so far on his final lap of the 20-minute session, recording a 1m17948s in his Mercedes C63 to eclipse fellow Briton di Resta's early benchmark by 0.073 seconds.
Di Resta failed to improve on his second set of runs, securing Paffett a fourth pole of the season.
Former Manor and Sauber Formula 1 driver Pascal Wehrlein completed the top three, qualifying only 13 thousandths slower than di Resta.
Rene Rast was the fastest non-Mercedes driver in fourth, a little more than a tenth off the pace in his Audi RS5, ahead of Saturday front row starter Lucas Auer and Robin Frijns.
Race one runner-up Augusto Farfus was BMW's leading representative in seventh, with Loic Duval (Audi) eighth ahead of another two BMW drivers - Marco Wittmann and Philipp Eng.
The third Briton on the grid, Jamie Green, was 11th and less than four tenths off pole in his RS5 ahead of Mike Rockenfeller.
All but one of the 18 cars qualified within a second of each other, with Bruno Spengler bringing up the rear by improving to a 1m19.115s on his final lap.
Session results
Cla # Driver Car Laps Time Gap 1 2 
Gary Paffett Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 7 1'17.948 2 3 
Paul di Resta Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 7 1'18.021 0.073 3 94 
Pascal Wehrlein Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 8 1'18.034 0.086 4 33 
René Rast Audi RS5 DTM 9 1'18.052 0.104 5 22 
Lucas Auer Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 8 1'18.135 0.187 6 4 
Robin Frijns Audi RS5 DTM 11 1'18.140 0.192 7 15 
Augusto Farfus BMW M4 DTM 7 1'18.182 0.234 8 28 
Loic Duval Audi RS5 DTM 11 1'18.205 0.257 9 11 Marco Wittmann BMW M4 DTM 9 1'18.244 0.296 10 25 Philipp Eng BMW M4 DTM 7 1'18.304 0.356 11 53 Jamie Green Audi RS5 DTM 9 1'18.315 0.367 12 99 Mike Rockenfeller Audi RS5 DTM 9 1'18.330 0.382 13 16 Timo Glock BMW M4 DTM 7 1'18.508 0.560 14 23 
Daniel Juncadella Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 7 1'18.517 0.569 15 51 
Nico Müller Audi RS5 DTM 9 1'18.607 0.659 16 47 
Joel Eriksson BMW M4 DTM 9 1'18.654 0.706 17 48 
Edoardo Mortara Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 9 1'18.670 0.722 18 7 
Bruno Spengler BMW M4 DTM 8 1'19.115 1.167
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