DTM 2004
Claudia Pechstein with Mattias Ekström before the start

Wedding bells and other news from the Audi camp ...

... Audi works driver Frank Biela, DTM Champion of the 1991 season, tied the knot with his long-time partner Patricia near Nuremberg, Germany, last Tuesday. The couple are expecting a baby to arrive soon ...

... Mattias Ekström’s partner Tina Thörner spent the days before the race at the EuroSpeedway putting a fence around the yard of the couple’s home to give “Moss”, Ekström’s Jack Russel terrier, the chance to roam around without a leash ...

... Mattias Ekström was seen wearing his new helmet sporting the colours of partner Red Bull for the first time at the EuroSpeedway ...

... Frank Diefenbacher, SEAT works driver in the FIA European Touring Car Championship, visited the EuroSpeedway as a guest of Audi ...

... prior to the event on Thursday, the two Audi works drivers, Emanuele Pirro and Martin Tomczyk, tried some indoor skiing inside a hall at the “DTM Snow Party“ in Senftenberg ...

... Reinhold Joest, Director of Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest, used his comfortable bus to spend the night in the paddock ...

... as a guest of Audi, Olympic winner and World Speed-Skating Champion Claudia Pechstein was treated to a special experience at the EuroSpeedway in the hot seat of the Abt-Audi DTM racing taxi ...

... rapper Valezka, widely known from her single recording of L.O.V.E. with Ekofresh, put on a hot show at Audi’s press and team hospitality in the paddock ...

... Kevin Kalkhoven, boss of the U.S. ChampCar series was given a ride in the Abt-Audi DTM racing taxing during his visit to the EuroSpeedway ...

... Thorsten Schlottmann (dtm.de) clinched the day’s victory in the Audi Super Pole, the journalists’ competition on the SonyPlaystation 2. Online colleague Andre Dietzel (racing1.de) continues to lead the overall standings. The pace set this time by Hans-Jürgen Abt’s eleven-year-old son Daniel was not matched...