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Audi in the 2010 DTM
Can Audi clinch its fourth
consecutive title in the 2010 DTM?
Audi was involved in the DTM as a factory team from 1990
to 1992, and returned to the fold in 2004. It is now into its
tenth season in Europe’s most popular touring car racing
series. Over the years, the Audi team has won the DTM title
no less than six times, not to mention a seventh title in the
2002 season together with the Abt Sportsline privateer
team. Having made history last year by achieving a hattrick,
Audi now intends to be behind this year’s champion
for the fourth time in a row. To achieve this feat, Head of
Audi Motorsport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich has put together the
company’s youngest ever team of DTM drivers. Eight of the
nine drivers, which include the current champions Mattias
Ekström and Timo Scheider, have been part of the Audi
team before. The newcomer is the Spaniard Miguel Molina
who, at 21 years of age, brings the drivers’ average age
down to 27.5 years old ahead of the next season.
The nine Audi A4 DTM being driven by the familiar teams
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, Audi Sport Team Phoenix
and Audi Sport Team Rosberg are characterised by their
excellent efficiency. A development freeze implemented in
the DTM in August 2009 will by no means detract from the
In 2008 and 2009,
Timo Scheider won backto-back
titles in the DTM