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Timo Glock claims first pole position of his DTM career – Best qualifying result for BMW since comeback in 2012.
Sat Sep 12 14:18:50 CEST 2015 Press Release
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The wait is over after his 33rd DTM event: Timo Glock (DE) will start from pole position for the first time since switching to the series. In qualifying ahead of the 13th race of the season in Oschersleben (DE), Glock clocked the fastest time of 1:19.821 minutes at the wheel of the DEUTSCHE POST BMW M4 DTM. That made him 0.056 seconds faster than Augusto Farfus (BR, Shell BMW M4 DTM) in second place.
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Oschersleben (DE), 12th September 2015. The wait is over after
his 33rd DTM event: Timo Glock (DE) will start from pole position
for the first time since switching to the series. In qualifying
ahead of the 13th race of the season in Oschersleben (DE), Glock
clocked the fastest time of 1:19.821 minutes at the wheel of the
DEUTSCHE POST BMW M4 DTM. That made him 0.056 seconds faster than
Augusto Farfus (BR, Shell BMW M4 DTM) in second place.
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he duo on the front row are followed by a further three BMW
drivers in places three to five, in the form of Tom Blomqvist (GB,
BMW M4 DTM), whose third place was the best qualifying result of his
rookie season so far, António Félix da Costa (PT, Red Bull BMW M4
DTM) and Bruno Spengler (CA, BMW Bank M4 DTM).
Glock’s performance earned BMW its 48th pole position in the DTM
and, with the top five on the grid, is the best qualifying result
since returning to the DTM in 2012.
Marco Wittmann (DE, Ice-Watch BMW M4 DTM) and Martin Tomczyk
(DE, BMW M Performance Parts M4 DTM) also qualified in the top ten
in seventh and eighth place respectively. Maxime Martin (BE, SAMSUNG
BMW M4 DTM) clocked the twelfth fastest time.
The start times of all the DTM sessions were delayed due to
thick fog. As such, qualifying started one hour later than expected
at 12:00, immediately after free practice two, which was reduced to
25 minutes. The 13th of this season’s 18 DTM races gets underway at
14:55 local time.
Quote from the best-placed BMW driver.
“This result feels incredibly good, as the past few races have
been difficult for us. I can only thank my team. We went for a
long ‘track walk’, during which we discussed a lot of things, and
tried out a few things that seem to have worked well for us. I
noticed as soon as the first lap that things were going to work
out really well. I got the max out of the car everywhere. It was
more difficult on the second lap, as there were a relatively large
number of cars on the track. Then we had the yellow flag in the
final few seconds. From that point, I just crossed my fingers and
hoped that everything turned out well. I am obviously really happy
now, and pleased for everyone at BMW Team MTEK to get my first
pole position in the DTM.” – Timo Glock (BMW Team MTEK, 1st place)
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Facts and Figures.
Circuit/length:
Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, 3.696 kilometres
Conditions:
Fog, 15 degrees Celsius
Pole time:
Timo Glock (DE, BMW Team MTEK), 1:19.821 minutes
BMW Motorsport results*:
#16 Timo Glock (DE), BMW Team MTEK, DEUTSCHE POST BMW M4 DTM
1:19.821 minutes – 1st place
#18 Augusto Farfus (BR), BMW Team RBM, Shell BMW M4 DTM
1:19.877 minutes – 2nd place
#31 Tom Blomqvist (GB), BMW Team RBM, BMW M4 DTM
1:19.893 minutes – 3rd place
#13 António Félix da Costa (PT), BMW Team Schnitzer, Red Bull
BMW M4 DTM
1:19.907 minutes – 4th place
#7 Bruno Spengler (CA), BMW Team MTEK, BMW Bank M4 DTM
1:19.927 minutes – 5th place
#1 Marco Wittmann (DE), BMW Team RMG, Ice-Watch BMW M4 DTM
1:19.992 minutes – 7th place
#77 Martin Tomczyk (DE), BMW Team Schnitzer, BMW M Performance
Parts M4 DTM
1:20.019 minutes – 8th place
#36 Maxime Martin (BE), BMW Team RMG, SAMSUNG BMW M4 DTM
1:20.175 minutes – 12th place
*The official starting grid may differ from the provisional
qualifying results published in this release.
Useful information:
Timo Glock secured pole position for the first time in his DTM
career. His previous best qualifying performances came in 2014 at
the Hungaroring (HU) and in Spielberg (AT), where he started from
second on the grid.
Timo Glock’s pole time was 0.695 seconds faster than Marco
Wittmann’s fastest time last year.
Third place marked Tom Blomqvist’s best qualifying result of
his still fledgling DTM career.
BMW Motorsport enjoyed its best qualifying result since
returning to the DTM in 2012, with five BMW M4 DTMs in the first
five places and seven cars in the top ten.
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