Audi A4 DTM 2010 MediaInfo - Audi USA News

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The Audi drivers
Nine Europeans under the
sign of the four rings
Audi will tackle the 2010 DTM season with three teams
comprising a highly attractive, charming and sportingly
impressive squad of drivers. Audi Sport Team Abt
Sportsline, which is based in Kempten in the Allgäu region,
will be represented by champions Mattias Ekström and Timo
Scheider, who have won four titles for Audi between them in
the past six years. This includes a hat-trick in 2007 (Mattias
Ekström), 2008 and 2009 (both Timo Scheider).
Abt Sportsline will also be entering Martin Tomczyk and
the newly promoted Oliver Jarvis, who will take charge of
a 2009 Audi A4 DTM for the first time as he takes Tom
Kristensen’s former place. The fifth and final member of the
Abt Sportsline team is rookie Miguel Molina of Spain.
Markus Winkelhock and Katherine Legge, both of whom are
with Audi for their third season, will be lining up for Audi
Sport Team Rosberg based in Neustadt an der Weinstraße.
Teammates Alexandre Prémat and Mike Rockenfeller will
be reunited under the auspices of Audi Sport Team Phoenix.
The two of them won the Le Mans Series for Audi in 2008 in
an R10 TDI sports car and, like Oliver Jarvis, have both also
previously made it onto the winners’ rostrum in the DTM in
year-old cars. Alexandre Prémat, who has also driven as a
sports car pilot for Audi in the past, is focusing entirely on
the DTM this year.
Audi is the first automobile manufacturer in the history of
the DTM, which started in 1984, to have won the title three
years running. And it intends to further its success story in
the 2010 season. To achieve this ambitious goal, it is relying
on the youngest Audi DTM squad ever, with an average age
of 27.5 years.
The team’s average age, 27.5 years, has never been lower