Crash.Net DTM News  Timely pole for Tomczyk  1 January 1901
Martin Tomczyk scored an ideally timed first pole position of
the season ahead of the eighth DTM round at the Nurburgring,
although championship leading team-mate Mattias Ekstrom will
start back in tenth.  Currently second in the driver standings,
five points behind Ekstrom, Tomczyk led an Audi 1-2-3 in a
typically close qualifying session to place him in a prime
position to record a second straight victory and move him well
into contention for the DTM crown.  Another entertaining
knockout qualifying session, honours looked to have been going
Mercedes way early on after Audi lost five of their cars during
the first phase. However, while they would eventually end up
with only three A4s in the top eight shootout to Mercedes' five,
they'd still lock out the top three, Timo Scheider and Tom
Kristensen helping Tomczyk at the head of the grid.  Indeed,
Audi were the big losers as the session got underway as five of
their ten cars were eliminated the first