Tom Kristensen on pole-position at Oschersleben

Tom Kristensen on pole-position at Oschersleben
Tom Kristensen claimed pole-position in qualifying for the third season round of the DTM in the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. With his Siemens Audi A4, the Dane claimed the most favourable grid position by 0.009 seconds. Second place was taken by Jamie Green with the Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class. Starting from the second grid row on Sunday (live on the ARD from 13.45 onwards) will be Bruno Spengler (DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG Mercedes C-Class) and Mika Häkkinen (AMG Mercedes C-Class). Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Veltins Audi A4) is fifth alongside Bernd Schneider (Vodafone AMG Mercedes C-Class) in sixth position. Frank Stippler (S line Audi A4) caused a little surprise by qualifying eighth with his Audi A4 DTM from last year.

The qualifying at a glance
Air temperature: 15,6 °C
Track temperature: 18,2 °C

13.37 hrs Qualifying starts. Pierre Kaffer is the first driver out on the track
13.40 hrs Timo Scheider sets a fastest lap time of 1.20.792, but is then outpaced by Jamie Green with 1.20.393
13.41 hrs Bruno Spengler is fastest with 1.20.068 from Mika Häkkinen, Frank Stippler, Bernd Schneider, Jamie Green
13.45 hrs Ekström is fastest with 1.19.835 from Tomczyk, but then Kristensen sets the best time of 1.19.686
13.48 hrs Margaritis into seventh place with 1.20.333
13.49 hrs Tielemans off the track, but continues
13.51 hrs End of the session. La Rosa, Mücke, Lauda, Stoddart, Ickx and Tielemans failed to make it into the second session. Fastest is Kristensen from Ekström, Tomczyk, Spengler, Frentzen and Häkkinen
13.58 hrs Start of the second session, Timo Scheider is the first driver out
14.01 hrs Spengler sets the fastest time of 1.19.559, followed by Kristensen with 1.19.563
14.06 hrs Bernd Schneider into third place with 1.19.703, Häkkinen is fourth with 1.19.733
14.08 hrs Green is now fastest with 1.19.340 from Spengler, Kristensen, Schneider, Häkkinen and Frentzen. End of the session, Ekström, Abt, Margaritis, Scheider, Kaffer and Alesi do not make it through into the third and final heat
14.15 hrs Final session starts
14.16 hrs Jamie Green is fastest with 1.19.273 from Bruno Spengler with 1.19.513
14.20 hrs Kristensen sets the fastest lap time of 1.19.264
14.21 hrs Frentzen up into fourth place with 1.19.820
14.22 hrs End of the session. Kristensen is fastest from Green, Spengler, Häkkinen, Frentzen, Schneider, Tomczyk and Stippler.
14.23 hrs Tom Kristensen scored the third pole-position of his DTM career and the first pole of the season for Audi. He outpaced Mercedes-drivers Jamie Green, Bruno Spengler and Mika Häkkinen and Audi-drivers Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Timo Scheider and Martin Tomczyk.