Jamie Green fastest in Hockenheim first practice

Team Rosberg’s Jamie Green posted the fastest time during the first Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) practice session around the Hockenheimring, as the final weekend of the season got underway in earnest.

With cold track temperatures of around eight degrees Celsuis at the 4.574-km track, it was Gary Paffett was the first to set a benchmark time in the 1 minute 33 second bracket early on, along with Team Phoenix’s Timo Scheider and Team Schnitzer’s Martin Tomczyk.

Paffett would lead the way for the majority of the session, until Green took the top spot with just less than 30 seconds to spare, setting the best time of a 1:32.849.

Paffett ended up second, 0.423 seconds behind Green, who put together two flying laps in rapid succession. Tom Blomqvist made it a British top three, as the 21-year-old was just 0.005 seconds behind the 2005 champion.

Title contenders Edoardo Mortara and Mattias Ekström would end up fourth and sixth fastest, with Pascal Wehrlein ending up 19^th after the 50-minute session.

Audi would end up with four of their cars in the top ten, as Nico Müller jumped to fifth with approximately 10 minutes of the session to spare.

Maxime Martin and Augusto Farfus were in the top ten for BMW, eighth and tenth fastest respectively. Maximillian Götz and Paul Di Resta also finished in the top ten, posting the seventh and ninth fastest times, with the Scot featuring in the top ten early in the session.

Esteban Ocon, who is taking Daniel Juncadella’s place at Mücke Motorsport this weekend, would end up 1.559 seconds off the pace in last place, but was just 0.054 seconds off Nürburgring race two winner, Miguel Molina.

The 19-year-old improved his times throughout the session, after initially being nearly four seconds off the pace.

Outgoing champion Marco Wittmann would end up behind Wehrlein in 20th place, 1.374 seconds off the pace set by Green.

Free practice two starts at 0900 CEST (0800 BST) on Saturday morning.

Session results

POS	NO	DRIVER	NAT	ENTRANT	CAR	LAPS	TIME	GAP
1	53	Jamie GREEN		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	22	1:32.849	0.000
2	2	Gary PAFFETT		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	23	1:33.272	0.423
3	31	Tom BLOMQVIST		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	19	1:33.277	0.428
4	48	Edoardo MORTARA		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	24	1:33.281	0.432
5	51	Nico MÜLLER		Audi Sport Team Rosberg	Audi RS5 DTM	18	1:33.372	0.523
6	5	Mattias EKSTRÖM		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	20	1:33.434	0.585
7	84	Maximilian GÖTZ		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	25	1:33.469	0.620
8	36	Maxime MARTIN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	18	1:33.539	0.690
9	3	Paul di RESTA		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	17	1:33.616	0.767
10	18	Augusto FARFUS		BMW Team RBM	BMW M4 DTM	18	1:33.626	0.777
11	16	Timo GLOCK		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	18	1:33.750	0.901
12	10	Timo SCHEIDER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	24	1:33.773	0.924
13	22	Lucas AUER		EURONICS / BWT Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	21	1:33.794	0.945
14	99	Mike ROCKENFELLER		Audi Sport Team Phoenix	Audi RS5 DTM	24	1:33.814	0.965
15	6	Robert WICKENS		SILBERPFEIL Energy Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	17	1:33.866	1.017
16	77	Martin TOMCZYK		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	18	1:33.886	1.037
17	27	Adrien TAMBAY		Audi Sport Team Abt	Audi RS5 DTM	22	1:33.949	1.100
18	13	António Félix da COSTA		BMW Team Schnitzer	BMW M4 DTM	21	1:34.052	1.203
19	94	Pascal WEHRLEIN		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	20	1:34.199	1.350
20	1	Marco WITTMANN		BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	17	1:34.223	1.374
21	8	Christian VIETORIS		gooix / Original-Teile Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	18	1:34.227	1.378
22	7	Bruno SPENGLER		BMW Team MTEK	BMW M4 DTM	22	1:34.308	1.459
23	17	Miguel MOLINA		Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline	Audi RS5 DTM	20	1:34.354	1.505
24	34	Esteban OCON		PETRONAS Mercedes-AMG	Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM	21	1:34.408	1.559

Complete session results.