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And if this was any kind of indication today, the fans can really look forward to a very exciting season. I think everyone was very excited and anxious to see how close the field would be together. “It’s great sitting in the car again – finally – after this long winter break. We improved my Audi A4 DTM in both practice sessions so now I’m able to say on Friday evening: I’m really satisfied and optimistic for tomorrow.” Not only because of the result but mainly because all the changes went into the right direction. Timo Scheider (Gebrauchtwagen:plus/Top Service Audi A4 DTM #8)

Now we have to sort everything and concentrate on qualifying.” We made some good steps forwards today – exactly as we’d been planning. “It was a great thrill to be driving under the same conditions against our rivals again for the first time. Mattias Ekström (Red Bull Audi A4 DTM #3) That makes the qualifying even more interesting.” I don’t think that everything was shown today. Now we’re going to compile the data from all the vehicles and work out the set-up for the important practice on Saturday. With our current cars we did three long runs. (local time).ĭr Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport): “We saw an extreme mix of three model years today.

ARD will broadcast the session live from Hockenheim on “Das Erste” starting at 1:30 p.m. Things will really get serious for the first time in qualifying on Saturday.

The top four positions were occupied by vehicles from all three model years, which in the DTM compete different basic weights – the older the car, the lighter it is permitted to be.

Mediacenter 2007 drivers#

In the afternoon, 19 of the 20 drivers were within a single second of each other. In the afternoon, when the Audi drivers concentrated on racing simulations, Timo Scheider in second place was the best Audi driver. The first top result of the year was achieved by Audi driver Mattias Ekström: The Swede in the new Red Bull Audi A4 DTM of Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline was the quickest driver in the first test session in the morning.