Two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann will start the final race of the 2018 seas🔴on from pole posꦫition after beating title contender Rene Rast in qualifying at the Hockenheimring.

The BMW driver endured a miserable Saturday at Hockenheim after an FP3 crash forced him out of quali🦩fying, before registering a 16th place finish in race one.

However, Wittmann hit back in triumphant fashion after sending his BMW M4 to the ♕top of the timesheets ahead of Audi's Rast during the ൲final 20-minute shootout of the year.

Looking to gain further ground in the title race, it was Rast who led the way following the firs🎀t set of runs. And while the Audi driver was able to slightly improve on his initial run with a 1 minute 32.737s lap, Wittmann went even faster after setting a 1 minute 32.683s lap during the final minute.

C⛎rucially, Rast still managed to out-qualify championship leader Gary Paffett to gain another point on his title rival aft💯er the Mercedes driver qualified in third.

Unlike Rast and Paffett, fellow title candidate Paul di Resta was unable to qualify in the top-ten and will start race two from eleventh. Di Resta still sits second 🔯in the drivers' standings with just 14-points covꦺering the top-three runners.

Starting from third, Paffett just needs to shadow Rast in order to clinch his second in the serie♏s, 13-years after his first.

Paffett is joined on the second row with♔ BMW's Bruno Spengler, while Augusto🧸 Farfus completed the top-five order ahead of Edoardo Mortara in sixth.

Joel Eriksson and Philipp Eng comprise an all BMW fourth row in seventh and eighth, as Nico Muller 💮and Timo Glo✃ck complete the top-ten grid order in ninth and tenth.