Facts and figures on the Hockenheim DTM opener
Hockenheim marked the 100th race of the DTM since its re-launch in 2000. This and other interesting facts and figures about the 2009 DTM season opener are presented below.
- The wheels of an Audi A4 DTM turned about 2206 times per lap at Hockenheim
- The winner, Tom Kristensen, completed 178.386 km in the race
- The average speed was 163.165 km/h
- Hockenheim was the 100th DTM race since the DTM was re-incepted in 2000
- Winner Tom Kristensen advertises “100 years of Audi” on his A4 DTM
- This was Tom Kristensen’s 51st DTM race
- Audi celebrated its 49th race victory in the DTM
- This was Audi’s 46th pole position in the DTM
- For Team ABT Sportsline, this was the 30th DTM victory
- For the 27th time in 54 races, an Audi A4 DTM started from P1
- 12 race cars of the Audi brand started at Hockenheim – more than at any other previous DTM race
- Audi drivers occupied the top 5 grid positions at Hockenheim
- Tom Kristensen clinched his 4th victory in the DTM
- 4th place was Markus Winkelhock’s best DTM result to date
- With 1m 32.068s Mattias Ekström set a new track record in the third qualifying segment
- Oliver Jarvis clinched his 1st podium result in the DTM
- Tom Kristensen had a 0.353-second lead when he crossed the finish line