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from <strong>Audi</strong> one year later, as the newly signed Frank Biela<br />

won the <strong>DTM</strong> in his first year with <strong>Audi</strong>.<br />

Championship win with a privateer<br />

<strong>Audi</strong> withdrew from the <strong>DTM</strong> for a while in the 1992 season<br />

and it wasn’t until 2000 that the Abt Sportsline team took<br />

the initiative to participate in the <strong>DTM</strong> as an <strong>Audi</strong> privateer<br />

team. Laurent Aiello promptly won the title in 2002 in the<br />

Abt-<strong>Audi</strong> TT-R.<br />

<strong>Audi</strong> returns to steal the show<br />

The <strong>Audi</strong> factory-backed team returned to the <strong>DTM</strong> fold<br />

in 2004 with the <strong>Audi</strong> <strong>A4</strong> <strong>DTM</strong> and went on to rack up an<br />

impressive score against Mercedes-Benz over the next six<br />

years, clinching the title no less than four times, with two<br />

wins each for Mattias Ekström and Timo Scheider. Overall,<br />

<strong>Audi</strong> has achieved seven championship wins and 52 race<br />

victories since 1990 and is now ranked second in the list of<br />

winners in the history of the event.<br />

There have been no less than seven wins for drivers<br />

participating in the <strong>DTM</strong> under the sign of the four rings<br />

The pretenders to the throne have set their sights on Timo Scheider,<br />

the number one driver with two consecutive wins under his belt

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