News from the Audi camp

... at Oschersleben, the Audi works drivers were seen more often than usual at Audi’s team and press hospitality area, where the stage was set for some hot slot car track duels between Audi R8 model cars. Mattias Ekström proved his racing skills on the push-button controls of the model cars as well: with 5.123 seconds, the Swede clocked the fastest time. Frank Biela was merely two hundredths of a second slower ...

... the Audi super pole competition for journalists normally contested on the PlayStation 2 was this time staged on the slot car track instead. Oliver Hilger of AutoBild motorsport was the quickest contender...

... Mattias Ekström watched the Rally World Championship round in Finland on the Internet. The Swede was particularly interested in the strong performance rendered by Jani Paasonen in the Skoda Fabia WRC. Ekström had defeated Paasonen in the Swedish rally, clinching victory in Group N ...

... Martin Tomczyk will be travelling to Zandvoort on Tuesday for a press session scheduled on the occasion of the Dutch DTM race ...

... Mattias Ekström and Martin Tomczyk practised a few sentences in Czech. The two Audi drivers were interviewed for a TV commercial for the DTM race in Brünn (Czech Republic) by fellow racer Jarek Janis ...

... Emanuele Pirro handled a PR commitment with particular pleasure: the Italian attended a photo shooting session of DTM magazine with ten grid girls...

... 20 guests of Tom Kristensen’s personal sponsor Jyske Bank came to Oschersleben. The Dane personally took care of his fellow countrymen...

... 100 distributors of Hasseröder beer attended the DTM race at Oschersleben near the brewery’s headquarters in Wernigerode ...

... the guests of Audi’s partner Shell were able to gain an indepth backstage impression of the DTM while visiting Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest’s team garage ...

... Martin Tomczyk met with children suffering from mucoviscidosis, who had been invited to Oschersleben by the Christiane Herzog foundation ...