Max Enderlein (Freudenberg Racing) will start from pole position at the Lausitzring. The 21-year-old economics student and championship leader from the racing town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal was the only driver to post a 1:42 lap time in the second qualifying session. Marc Buchner followed 0.146 seconds behind, and Christian Stange at 0.398 seconds. Things got pretty chaotic after several crashes occurred during the first qualifying session that morning on the still-wet track.
Buchner had fallen to the ground, as had Kevin Wahr. The mvr-Yamaha The Nagolder had really been hit hard and wasn't ready until the second qualifying session.
More than half of the practice session had already passed when Wahr rolled onto the track. He managed three laps before having to call it quits early. The bike wasn’t running right. “The automatic gearbox is probably faulty,” said the current second-place rider in the championship. It was a bitter blow for the man who had won in Schleiz: a best lap time of 1:51.059 min was the best he could manage. Title contender Wahr will have to work his way up from the back of the pack tomorrow, starting last on the grid.
In the dry second qualifying session, Christoph Beinlich catapulted himself from 16th place to sixth on the grid. Gabriel Noderer (Kawasaki) and the Rubin brothers, Daniel and Dominik, hadn’t raced at all that morning. They qualified for the third and fourth rows of the grid, respectively, in the afternoon.
In the Superstock 600 class , Jan Schmidt, Stefan Ströhlein, and Moritz Jenkner were the fastest.