Audi wins DTM 2022 brand name category
Neuburg an der Donau, October 9, 2022
- 7th win in 4 ring producers category
- 3rd location in ABT #Sportsline group rankings
- René Rast as the very best Audi driver, 2nd in the race and 3rd in the standings
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#Audi is the very best DTM maker for the 7th time: After 2004, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020, the brand name with the 4 rings has actually now made its launching in the producers’ category with the GT3 R8 cars. LMS. In his last DTM race for Audi, René Rast was 2nd on the podium for the 6th time this year and protected 3rd location in the motorists’ standings. The ABT Sportsline group is 3rd in the group list with the very same points as the 2nd put group from #Mercedes AMG Winward.
” For the 2nd time in a row, an Audi driver kept the title battle in the DTM open up until the last,” states Head of Audi Motorsport Rolf Michl. “René has actually done a lot for Audi in his remarkable profession. We want to offer him a 4th #DTM champion. “Winning the producers’ category indicates a lot to Audi Sport Customer #Racing. “In the whole world of client racing, the DTM is certainly among of the racing series,” states Chris Reinke, Audi Sport’s head of consumer racing. “Big congratulations to our 3 groups and personally to those accountable Thomas Biermaier, Kimmo Liimatainen and Arkin Aka. Together with all the motorists, they offered us the brand. To be the very best amongst 6 producers and to complete in the leading 3 amongst 34 chauffeurs and 17 groups is an honor.”
After Audi Sport driver Kelvin van der Linde defended the title till the final in 2015, three-time champ René Rast kept the champion battle open up until the 16 th and last race of the year. The 35- year-old professional from Team Abt was among 10 chauffeurs from 5 various brand names with title positions at the DTM Hockenheimring run by Audi. Klug prevented a number of deadly crashes in Saturday’s race and scored critical points in 5th location prior to protecting the last area for the last race on Sunday early morning. In the last race, just 3 chauffeurs still had an opportunity to win the champion. After 34 laps, Rast took 2nd location ahead of brand-new champ Sheldon van der Linde. This implies that 5 out of 6 Audi chauffeurs accomplished an overall of 12 podium surfaces in the last DTM season.
Audi has its 3 consumer groups to thank for the very best lead to the maker’s category. After ABT Sportsline and Team Rosberg currently introduced the R8 LMS in the very first GT3 year of the DTM in 2021, Attempto Racing and personal driver Marius Zug were likewise present for the very first time this year. Third in certifying, he scored his very first point for the Arkin Aka group from Hanover in Hockenheim on Sunday. A fourth-place surface in the race marked a great end to the season for the 19- year-old Munich local. He was simply 0.291 seconds except the podium. Like the German, Dev Gore began this season as a privateer at Audi. The 25- year-old racing driver from Team Rosberg experienced his finest race at Imola. In the 3rd occasion, the American protected the DTM podium outcome for the very first time in his profession thanks to an excellent race method and a persuading individual efficiency after an early rest stop. Rosberg’s team-mate, Audi driver Nico Müller, tape-recorded his finest efficiency of the year with success in the season opener at Portimão and 2nd location at Imola. The Swiss completed seventh in the last standings as the 2nd finest Audi R8 LMS driver.
2 other Audi #Sport chauffeurs were at the start of ABT Sportsline. Kelvin van der Linde accomplished his finest efficiency with Audi this year at the Nürburgring: After winning the 24- hour race with Audi for the 2nd time in May, 3 months later on in the DTM he likewise attained the very best outcome of the DTM season with 2nd location. He completed the season 9th. His colleague Ricardo Feller made numerous surprise marks in his very first season in the DTM. The Swiss well known his very first win on the 2nd weekend at Imola, and another prize featured 3rd location at the Nürburgring.
While the DTM season is over, there are amazing weeks ahead for Audi Sport’s global consumer races. The brand name’s clients have actually currently won 9 driver’s titles and 22 other categories worldwide this year, and remain in lots of other racing series with 4 brand name items– the Audi RS 3 LMS visiting cars and truck and the 3 GT R8 LMS GT2, GT3 and GT4– in appealing positions.
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