Last-minute ADAC Formula 4 entrant Janneau Esmeijer has claimed pole position for the championship’s first ever race after topping qualifying at Oschersleben.
His HTP Junior team-mate Marvin Dienst is set to start race two from pole after setting the best second-fastest time of the session.
With 38 cars taking part in the opening round, qualifying was split into two groups and ex-Formula Renault 1.6 racer Esmeijer – who only secured his seat last week – posted the best time of the session in the second group.
Australian Joey Mawson had set the pace in group A, beating Dienst by just nine thousandths of a second.
While that secured Van Amersfoort man Mawson a place on the front row for race one, Dienst will have to start fourth behind Motopark’s Michael Waldherr.
However, Dienst’s second best time got him pole for race two, going 0.037s quicker than Esmeijer’s corresponding time from group B.
Mawson will head row two for the second race, with Prema’s Ralf Aron alongside him.
Aron will start fifth in race one ahead of Italian F4 runner-up Mattia Drudi.?Joel Eriksson will be seventh ahead of Aron’s team-mate and Ferrari protege Guan Yu Zhou while the top ten will be completed by Harrison Newey and Giorgio Maggi.
Drudi will be fifth on the grid for race two in front of Eriksson, Zhou, Waldherr, Maggi and Newey.
Single-seated debutant Mick Schumacher was 10th quickest in group B, putting him 19th on the grid for race one, one place ahead of Tim Zimmermann, the best returning driver from the preceding ADAC Formel Masters series. Schumacher, who had been inside the top five in both free practice sessions, will be 20th for race two, with Zimmermann moving up to 17th.
Qualifying results
Race 1 grid ? fastest times | ? | Race 2 grid ? second fastest times | ||||||
Pos | Driver | Group A | Group B | ? | Pos | Driver | Group A | Group B |
1 | Janneau Esmeijer | 1:26.440 | 1 | Marvin Dienst | 1:26.823 | |||
2 | Joey Mawson | 1:26.705 | 2 | Janneau Esmeijer | 1:26.860 | |||
3 | Michael Waldherr | 1:26.867 | 3 | Joey Mawson | 1:27.066 | |||
4 | Marvin Dienst | 1:26.714 | 4 | Ralf Aron | 1:26.983 | |||
5 | Ralf Aron | 1:26.873 | 5 | Mattia Drudi | 1:27.374 | |||
6 | Mattia Drudi | 1:27.365 | 6 | Joel Eriksson | 1:27.099 | |||
7 | Joel Eriksson | 1:26.915 | 7 | Guan Yu Zhou | 1:27.428 | |||
8 | Guan Yu Zhou | 1:27.426 | 8 | Michael Waldherr | 1:27.281 | |||
9 | Harrison Newey | 1:27.238 | 9 | Giorgio Maggi | 1:27.450 | |||
10 | Giorgio Maggi | 1:27.429 | 10 | Harrison Newey | 1:27.345 | |||
11 | Robert Shwartzman | 1:27.239 | 11 | Mike Ortmann | 1:27.825 | |||
12 | Thomas Preining | 1:27.474 | 12 | Robert Shwartzman | 1:27.367 | |||
13 | Jonathan Cecotto | 1:27.384 | 13 | Nikolaj Rogivue | 1:27.844 | |||
14 | Mike Ortmann | 1:27.588 | 14 | Kim-Luis Schramm | 1:27.438 | |||
15 | Kim-Luis Schramm | 1:27.422 | 15 | Florian Janits | 1:27.846 | |||
16 | Benjamin Mazatis | 1:27.628 | 16 | Jonathan Cecotto | 1:27.635 | |||
17 | Jannes Fittje | 1:27.463 | 17 | Tim Zimmermann | 1:27.869 | |||
18 | Toni Wolf | 1:27.633 | 18 | Jannes Fittje | 1:27.637 | |||
19 | Mick Schumacher | 1:27.654 | 19 | Thomas Preining | 1:27.877 | |||
20 | Tim Zimmermann | 1:27.647 | 20 | Mick Schumacher | 1:27.680 | |||
21 | Cedric Piro | 1:27.727 | 21 | Benjamin Mazatis | 1:27.961 | |||
22 | Jan Jonck | 1:27.716 | 22 | Marcel Lenerz | 1:27.970 | |||
23 | Marek Bockmann | 1:27.834 | 23 | Jan Jonck | 1:28.000 | |||
24 | Florian Janits | 1:27.777 | 24 | Marek Bockmann | 1:27.998 | |||
25 | Marcel Lenerz | 1:27.877 | 25 | Toni Wolf | 1:28.005 | |||
26 | Nikolaj Rogivue | 1:27.814 | 26 | Cedric Piro | 1:28.092 | |||
27 | Yan Leon Shlom | 1:28.139 | 27 | Leon Wippersteg | 1:28.181 | |||
28 | Leon Wippersteg | 1:28.021 | 28 | Yan Leon Shlom | 1:28.169 | |||
29 | Mauro Auricchio | 1:28.426 | 29 | Moritz Muller-Crepon | 1:28.755 | |||
30 | Moritz Muller-Crepon | 1:28.687 | 30 | Mauro Auricchio | 1:28.781 | |||
31 | Job van Uitert | 1:28.746 | 31 | Robin Brezina | 1:29.114 | |||
32 | Robin Brezina | 1:28.804 | 32 | Job van Uitert | 1:28.787 | |||
33 | David Kolkmann | 1:28.777 | 33 | Luca Engstler | 1:29.412 | |||
34 | Luca Engstler | 1:29.000 | 34 | David Kolkmann | 1:28.980 | |||
35 | Alain Valente | 1:29.100 | 35 | Marylin Niederhauser | 1:31.894 | |||
36 | Glenn Rupp | 1:29.759 | 36 | Alain Valente | 1:29.271 | |||
37 | Michelle Halder | 1:31.027 | 37 | Glenn Rupp | 1:35.603 | |||
38 | Marylin Niederhauser | 1:31.488 | 38 | Michelle Halder | 1:31.872 |