Facts about the DTM race at the Nürburgring
- Nürburgring with great DTM tradition
- Circuit in the Eifel is one of the two most successful for Audi
- Almost 100,000 fans line the track every year since 2000
Audi comes as championship leader to the eighth round of the DTM at the Nürburgring. Listed below are several interesting facts about the race in the Eifel.
Did you know that…
... Audi claimed its 41st DTM win at Zandvoort?
... the Nürburgring, which was built in 1927, celebrates its 80th anniversary this year?
... the DTM has already staged 64 races at the Nürburgring since 1984?
... until today no other track has held more DTM races?
... the Nürburgring is the only circuit to have been used every year by the DTM since the championship existed?
... during this time, nine different circuit layouts between 3.029 and 25.35 kilometres per lap including the famous Nordschleife have been used by the DTM?
... the DTM has only raced on the short sprint-circuit since 2002?
... the DTM staged its only night qualifying session to date at the Nürburgring in 2003?
... six victories have been celebrated under the sign of the ‘four rings’ from Ingolstadt since 1990?
... together with Hockenheim, the circuit in the Eifel is, as a result, one of the two tracks on which Audi drivers have scored the most DTM race wins?
... in 2001 today’s Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline remained unbeaten with the Abt-Audi TT-R in both races at the Nürburgring?
... Hans-Jürgen Abt’s then privately run team celebrated its sole victory of the 2001 and 2003 seasons in the DTM at the Nürburgring, and on each occasion with Laurent Aiello?
... Mattias Ekström started from pole position in the Eifel in 2003, and in 2005 became the only current Audi factory driver to have won there in the DTM?
... since the introduction of the “new” DTM in the year 2000 an average of 99,428 fans per year came to the Nürburgring, and that the number of spectators has increased constantly since 2003, and since 2004 more than 100,000 fans filled the grandstands?
... since its inauguration in 2003 the fastest race lap-times around the 3.629 kilometre sprint-circuit have fallen by more the five-tenths-of-a-second?
... in the same period the fastest lap times in qualifying have been reduced by an incredible 1.5 seconds?