BMW's Timo Gl🍨ock will start the second race of the 2018 DTM season from pole position after beating reigning cha♋mpion Rene Rast right at the death at Hockenheim.

The BMW 𓆏Team RMR driver clocked a 1 minute 32.379s around the Hockenheimring to knock the session's long-term pacesetter Rast off the top-spot after the chequered flag fell.

Audi's Rast comfortably led the ti🍨mesheets following the fir꧅st set of runs but eventually had to settle for second, 0.208s slower than the ex-F1 star.

Behind the top two, BMW's rookie driver Joel Eriksson very nearly made a grand entrance to🥀 his DTM career after the setting the third quickest time, just 0.026s behind Rast in second.

Leading a four-car Mercedes freight train, Edoardo Mortara joins the series newcomer on the second row in fourth ahead of Lucas Auer, Paul di Restaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ and Daniel Juncadella. Only ღ0.094s could seperate the fourth Mercedes runners positioned from fourth to seventh.

Despite having featured in the top-three during the first set of flying laps, BMW's Marco Wittmann will start race two from eighth, while Audi's Mike Rockenfeller and race one winner Gary Paffett complete the top-ten grid order in 🍌ninth and tenth.

Audi's Mattias Ekstrom will line up 19th for 𝓰his final DTM race following an exceptional 17-year career in the series.