BMW's Timo Glock will start the💮 second race of the 2018 DTM season from pole position after beating reigning champion Rene Rast right at the death at Hockenheim.

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

Audi's Rast comfortably led the timesheets following the🔯 first 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 E🐟riksson very nearly made a grand entrance to his DTM career after the setting the third quickest time, just 0.026s behi🅷nd Rast in second.

Leading a four-car Mercedes freight train, Edoardo Mortara joins the series newcomer on the second row in fourth ahea💟d of Lucas Auer, Paul di Resta and Daniel Juncadella. Only 0.094s 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 w💮ill 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 w𝔍ill line up 19th for his final DTM race follo🍬wing an exceptional 17-year career in the series.