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Edoardo Mortara leads Audi-dominated final free practice

Photo: ITR e.V.The final free practice session for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters at the Hungaroring saw Edoardo Mortara again top the time sheets, as Audi Sport again dominated proceedings.

The Italian would feature at the sharp end of the field, posting his best time of a 1:35.432 on his final lap, as the 30-minute session ended.

It put the Team Abt Sportsline driver ahead of Jamie Green once again, as the Briton set his best time with just over a minute remaining.

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Audi Sport would have all of its RS5 DTMs in the top ten, with Mortara leading an Ingolstadt 1-2-3-4-5-6, as Team Phoenix’s Timo Scheider was the first driver to dip under the 1m36s second barrier with 2 minutes 40 seconds left, posting a 1:35.931.

Mattias Ekström, Adrien Tambay and Miguel Molina helped to complete the top six clean sweep, whilst Mike Rockenfeller and Nico Müller were eighth and ninth fastest.

António Félix da Costa was the best of the BMW drivers in seventh, having run as high as third place in the session at one point, with Maximilian Götz rounding out the top ten for Mercedes.

Points leader Marco Wittmann was 12th fastest, behind Paul Di Resta, 0.940 seconds off the pace set by Mortara.

Daniel Juncadella was also showing a good turn of pace, posting times in the top five, alongside Götz, but was 13th fastest, ahead of fellow Stuttgart stablemates Robert Wickens and Lucas Auer.

Team RBM teammates Tom Blomqvist and Maxime Martin posted the 16th and 17th fastest times, whilst Christian Vietoris, Felix Rosenqvist and Gary Paffett were 18th, 22nd and 24th.

Timo Glock was 19th, ahead of a struggling Martin Tomczyk, as the Team Schnitzer driver locked up into turn one with less than 10 minutes left, saying the front was “too aggressive and nosey” to his engineer.

Bruno Spengler and Augusto Farfus also endured more difficulties, as the Team MTEK duo could only manage 21st and 23rd.

Qualifying for the the feature race starts at 1250 CEST (BST + 1), lasting for 20 minutes.

Session results

POS NO DRIVER NAT ENTRANT CAR LAPS TIME GAP
1 48 Edoardo MORTARA Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 14 1:35.432 0.000
2 53 Jamie GREEN Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 14 1:35.588 0.156
3 10 Timo SCHEIDER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 15 1:35.931 0.499
4 5 Mattias EKSTRÖM Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline Audi RS5 DTM 16 1:35.975 0.543
5 27 Adrien TAMBAY Audi Sport Team Rosberg Audi RS5 DTM 14 1:35.995 0.563
6 17 Miguel MOLINA Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 14 1:36.013 0.581
7 13 António Félix da COSTA BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 16 1:36.195 0.763
8 99 Mike ROCKENFELLER Audi Sport Team Phoenix Audi RS5 DTM 16 1:36.205 0.773
9 51 Nico MÜLLER Audi Sport Team Abt Audi RS5 DTM 14 1:36.289 0.857
10 84 Maximilian GÖTZ Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 17 1:36.327 0.895
11 3 Paul di RESTA Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 15 1:36.348 0.916
12 11 Marco WITTMANN BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 14 1:36.372 0.940
13 12 Daniel JUNCADELLA SILBERPFEIL Energy/UBFS Invest Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 15 1:36.395 0.963
14 6 Robert WICKENS SILBERPFEIL Energy/UBFS Invest Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 14 1:36.529 1.097
15 22 Lucas AUER BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 17 1:36.698 1.266
16 31 Tom BLOMQVIST BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 14 1:36.700 1.268
17 36 Maxime MARTIN BMW Team RBM BMW M4 DTM 14 1:36.770 1.338
18 8 Christian VIETORIS BWT Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 15 1:36.832 1.400
19 16 Timo GLOCK BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 14 1:36.866 1.434
20 100 Martin TOMCZYK BMW Team Schnitzer BMW M4 DTM 15 1:36.934 1.502
21 7 Bruno SPENGLER BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 15 1:36.978 1.546
22 88 Felix ROSENQVIST EURONICS/FREE MEN’S WORLD Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 19 1:37.103 1.671
23 18 Augusto FARFUS BMW Team MTEK BMW M4 DTM 13 1:37.199 1.767
24 2 Gary PAFFETT EURONICS/FREE MEN’S WORLD Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM 17 1:37.279 1.847

Complete session results.

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