Cars That Go Fast: Audi Motorsport Newsletter

Audi Motorsport Newsletter
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Elton on 25 September, 2009 04:37:00
 
One-two-three win for Audi in the DTM
DTM: For the fourth time, in the eighth race, Audi took the entire podium in
the 2009 DTM. At Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya Timo Scheider, Tom
Kristensen and Martin Tomczyk delivered a commanding one-two-three win for Audi.
As a result, Scheider extended his overall lead before the last two rounds to
twelve points. By finishing the race in sixth place Mattias Ekström defended
his second place in the standings. With Alexandre Prémat and Oliver Jarvis on
positions eight and nine, Audi also provided the two best year-old cars.
Two more wins for Audi R8 LMS
ADAC-GT-Masters: The penultimate race weekend of the ADAC GT Masters was
successful for Audi: Christopher Haase and Henri Moser (Phoenix Racing) won both
races at the Sachsenring with a dominant lead. In the second race Christian
Abt/Christopher Mies (Team ABT Sportsline) and Frank Kechele/Tim Verbergt
(Argo-Racing) even secured a one-two-three win for the Audi R8 LMS. Before the
finale at Oschersleben two R8 drivers – Christian Abt and Henri Moser – are
leading the standings.
Results and point scores  Barcelona (E), September 20, DTM round 8 1 Timo
Scheider (Audi A4 DTM) 59 laps in 1h 08m 38.739s 2 Tom Kristensen (Audi A4 DTM)
+ 2.157s 3 Martin Tomczyk (Audi A4 DTM) + 4.033s 4 Gary Paffett (Mercedes) +
23.469s 5 Bruno Spengler (Mercedes) + 23.992s 6 Mattias Ekström (Audi A4 DTM) +
24.463s ...   8 Alexandre Prémat (Audi A4 DTM) + 42.329s 9 Oliver Jarvis (Audi
A4 DTM) + 42.719s 12 Mike Rockenfeller (Audi A4 DTM) + 55.274s  Standings after
9 of 10 rounds: 1 Scheider, 53 points; 2 Ekström, 41; 3 Paffett, 39; 4 Tomczyk,
33; 5 Spengler, 33; ... 7 Kristensen, 21; 9 Jarvis, 15; 10 Winkelhock, 10; 13
Rockenfeller, 4; 14 Prémat, 1. Next race: Dijon (F), October 11   Sachsenring
(D), September 19, ADAC GT Masters round 11 1 Haase/Moser (Audi R8 LMS) 38 laps
in 1h 00m 18.912s 2 Ludwig/Hennerici (Corvette) + 7.570s 3 Abt/Mies (Audi R8
LMS) + 9.749s 4 Seiler/Hohenadel (Corvette) + 10.360s 5 Armindo/Campanico (Audi
R8 LMS) + 15.419s ...  7 Gruber/Terting (Audi R8 LMS) + 22.596s 10
Verbergt/Kechele (Audi R8 LMS) + 59.415s Sachsenring (D), September 20, ADAC GT
Masters round 12 1 Haase/Moser (Audi R8 LMS) 42 laps in 1h 00m 05.369s 2
Abt/Mies (Audi R8 LMS) + 7.250s 3 Verbergt/Kechele (Audi R8 LMS) + 35.014s 4
Seiler/Hohenadel (Corvette) + 37.399s 5 Schmickler/Bergmeister (Porsche) +
41.161s Next race: Oschersleben (D), October 17  Standings after 12 of 14
rounds: 1 Abt, 70 points; 2 Moser, 62; 3 Ludwig/Hennerici, 59; 4 Seyffarth, 54;
5 Hohenadel/Seiler, 54; 6 Armindo/Campanico, 47.
Coming up next week  "Petit Le Mans" at Road Atlanta (Saturday) ... Rounds 11
and 12 of the Italian GT Championship at Mugello (Saturday/Sunday) ... Timo
Scheider and Emanuele Pirro visit the stand of AUDI AG at the Frankfurt
International Motor Show IAA (Saturday/Sunday).