Overview

• Pepper clocked a 1:16.826 for his third pole of the season, earning three points that trim the deficit to leader Lucas Auer to 12.
• Jules Gounon qualified second at +0.123 seconds, with Ben Green third, Luca Engstler fourth, and points leader Auer starting fifth.
• Defending champion Mirko Bortolotti received a five-place grid penalty for a third warning over an unsafe release at the Nürburgring and will start P22.
• Pepper competed without his regular race engineer due to an IMSA commitment, with Nils Henning stepping in after the Lamborghini driver also led Friday’s FT1.
• Timo Glock topped Friday’s FT2 for Dörr McLaren, while in ADAC GT4 Germany practice Lachlan Robinson led FP1 and Denny Berndt paced FP2.