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DTM 2007
Max Biaggi, Audi A4 DTM race taxi

Audi contests the fourth of ten DTM races during the 2007 season at Brands Hatch. Listed below are several interesting facts about the race around the British circuit.

Did you know that…

... Max Biaggi tested an Audi RS 4 at Brands Hatch on Monday? The former motorbike World Champion drives the Audi A4 DTM Race Taxi at the DTM race at Mugello in the middle of July.

Brands Hatch staged a DTM race for the first time last year?

… the DTM will race on the 1.929-kilometre Indy Circuit again this year and not the 3.703 kilometre long Grand Prix circuit?

… the circuit close to the gates of London is once again the shortest on the DTM calendar?

… the spectators benefit twice from this, since they can overlook the majority of the circuit from many vantage points and the cars race past 82 times – more often than all the other DTM tracks?

… Audi started with three cars from the first two rows and Tom Kristensen started from pole position at Brands Hatch in 2006? It was the brand’s second best qualifying result in the 2006 season.

… no less than 17 cars qualified within one second of another last year?

… Audi is not only unbeaten in qualifying but also in the race at Brands Hatch? Mattias Ekström won there in 2006.

… Audi brought five A4 DTM cars to the finish in the top ten?

… with the Briton Adam Carroll a local matador drives for Audi for the first time in a DTM race in Great Britain?

… the DTM did not start for the first time on the British Isles in last year’s race at Brands Hatch? The championship has already started at Donington Park.

Mattias Ekström, as third place finisher at Donington in 2002 and 2003 and as last year’s winner at Brands Hatch, has mounted the podium after every DTM race he started to date in England?

… the Audi factory team is unbeaten to date in every DTM start in Great Britain? In 1991 the brand won two races at Donington with the V8 quattro, and last year’s race at Brands Hatch with the A4 DTM.

241,500 spectators attended the first three race of the 2007 season? This is an average of 80,500 fans per race.

… for the first time since the new DTM started in the year 2000 a motorbike race will be part of the supporting programme at Brands Hatch?