• Audi drivers have scored two of the four wins since 2004
  • Five podium positions for the A4 DTM
  • Mattias Ekström is most successful Audi driver in the Lausitz
DTM 2007
Mattias Ekström, Martin Tomczyk

Audi contests the third of ten DTM races in the 2007 season next weekend at the EuroSpeedway. Listed below are several interesting facts about the race at the EuroSpeedway.

id you know that…

… the first corner at the EuroSpeedway has been modified significantly in comparison to last year?

… the circuit is 36 metres longer as a result?

… a single race lap in the DTM around the East German track uses sections of two circuit layouts – the tri-oval and the infield?

… all three straights of the tri-oval are used – the start and finish straight completely and sections of the other two?

… since Audi returned as factory team it has recorded two victories at the EuroSpeedway? Mattias Ekström won a race there in both 2004 and 2005.

seven races have been held at the EuroSpeedway up to now? A DTM race has been held there every year since 2001, and in 2005 two.

… the DTM uses a third circuit layout there? The series initially competed on a 4.534 km long version in 2001, since 2005 on the 3.442 kilometre version. A lap is 3.478 kilometres long this year.

… the Audi A4 DTM has recorded five podium finishes – including two wins – at the EuroSpeedway since its debut in 2004?

… the current championship leader is also the most successful Audi driver in the Lausitz? Mattias Ekström has already mounted the podium five times there.

Tom Kristensen, another Scandinavian, has sprayed Champagne for Audi on three occasions at the EuroSpeedway? He has mounted the podium three times since 2005 – once for third and twice for second position.

… the spectators have never witnessed such a close start to the DTM at the EuroSpeedway with three drivers – including two Audi factory drivers – equal on points atop the leader board?

… an Audi has started three times from the front row since 2002? Laurent Aiello took pole position in 2002, and Mattias Ekström started second in both 2003 and 2004.

… the spectators in the Lausitz can look forward to a special duel run under the banner of Audi partner Red Bull? Just before the race Mattias Ekström will compete in his Audi A4 DTM against the RB3 Red Bull Formula 1 car, driven by test driver Michael Ammermüller.

… at 12:20 a.m. on race day a cavalcade of Audi RS 4 cars will lap the circuit?