Martin Tomczyk Quickest Audi Driver
Audi are well set for yet another DTM race, the round at MOTOPARK Oschersleben: Martin Tomczyk in his Audi A4 DTM clocked the third best time in Friday’s tests, making the 22-year-old contender the quickest of the Audi drivers’ squad. Leader of the standings Mattias Ekström was merely one tenths of a second slower than his team-mate. In blazing heat and anticipating similar temperatures on Sunday, the Audi drivers primarily focussed on their setup for the race as well as completing several long runs. Quotes after Friday’s tests Martin Tomczyk (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #6) Mattias Ekström (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #5) Tom Kristensen (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #12) Christian Abt (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #11) Emanuele Pirro (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #44) Frank Biela (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #45) Hans-Jürgen Abt (Team Director Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline): “If tomorrow we see another fight between the three, Audi, Mercedes and Opel, that’s as close as today’s, the fans may well be in for what could turn out to be the most thrilling race day of the season. My four boys are all very close to each other and fighting at the front, Martin has clocked the third best time of the day – that means we’re extremely well prepared to attack in tomorrow’s qualifying.” Ralf Jüttner (Technical Director Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest): “Today, we ticked off a large number of items on our to-do list. Particularly the mid-field is very close, and we’re not lacking much. We still have a few small improvements to make on the cars by tomorrow, and then we’ll have a realistic chance to make it into the top ten in the qualifying.” Dr Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport: “The extremely high track temperatures here at the MOTORPARK put a lot of stress on the tyres. That’s why we primarily concentrated on the long runs today to be on the safe side for the race. I’m sure that we have a very good setup and that the weekend can be a very good one for Audi.” |