When Mattias Ekström comes home from an afternoon with friends it’s not uncommon for his partner Heidi to show some reluctance about letting him back into the house. And it’s certainly not because he might be inebriated – the Swede is still in the habit of steadfastly refusing any drink beyond a glass of fine red wine. The reason is that Ekström’s hobbies aren’t really compatible with a tidy home. He loves action, he loves mud and he loves it when the going gets rough. Doing things by halves is not his thing – that applies to the DTM as well as to his private life. More…
All Drivers Test at Barcelona From Tuesday on, the Audi RS 5 DTM will be continually out on track. All eight Audi drivers are traveling to Barcelona (Spain) for the first joint tests with the competition from BMW and Mercedes-Benz this year. Filipe Albuquerque, Mattias Ekström, Jamie Green, Miguel Molina, Edoardo Mortara, Mike Rockenfeller, Timo [...] More…
Now that the eight Audi DTM drivers have been allocated among the race teams, the start numbers of the Audi RS 5 DTM cars for the 2013 season are also fixed. More…
Your visit to Moscow with the Audi A5 DTM attracted a lot of attention. Looking back a few days later, what impressions did this trip leave with you? As this had been my first visit to Russia there were so many impressions that I first had to sort. The culture is completely different compared with [...] More…
On August 4, the DTM will be entering new territory to contest a race in Russia for the first time in its near 30-year history. Audi is the only brand to have visited Moscow half a year before the DTM round: Mattias Ekström and Edoardo Mortara today presented themselves together with an Audi A5 DTM to a large number of fans and journalists. More…
Audi will start into the 2013 DTM season with a mix of experienced campaigners and ambitious youngsters. The eight drivers have four titles, 478 races, 39 pole positions and 34 victories to their credit between them – marking top tallies in the series. The only change compared to last year’s squad: Rahel Frey is switching to GT racing within AUDI AG. The vacant cockpit will be occupied by new signing Jamie Green. More…
Another championship title for a customer team: only one week after winning the Portuguese GT Championship, César Campaniço, Boss of Team Novadriver, can celebrate yet another title. The Finn Mikko Eskelinen, with whom Campaniço shares an Audi R8 LMS ultra, celebrated winning the Iber GT Championship title in the finale at Barcelona. In the first race Eskelinen/Campaniço finished fifth while their Novadriver team mates Manuel Giao/Carlos Vieira were victorious. In the second race, the Finnish-Portuguese pairing completed the triumph with second place. Campaniço had no chance himself of defending his Spanish title from the previous year. In September he was forced to miss the race in Valencia due to a conflicting date with the Portuguese Championship. 2012 was the most successful year for his team, which competes in its third consecutive year with Audi GT3 race cars, after winning the Cup and championship in Portugal as well as the title in Spain. More…
As of 2014, the Japanese Super GT will adopt the Technical Regulations of the DTM. During the DTM finale at Hockenheim, TV presenter Judith Rakers was treated to a ride in the Audi DTM race taxi. More…
The aim has been achieved: In the Spanish DTM round at Valencia, Audi took the lead in the manufacturers’ championship with an impressive team performance and is now traveling to the grand finale at the Hockenheimring (October 21/live on “Das Erste”) with a 31-point advantage. More…
Basketball players of FC Bayern München paid a visit to the DTM squad at Oschersleben. And Filipe Albuquerque and Mike Rockenfeller assumed the sponsorship for a snow leopard lady. More…
