Tom Kristensen (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #12)
2nd / 1st, 1m 11.873s (67 laps)
“This is my first race here at Adria, that’s why I’m a bit surprised to see my
name at the very top of the timing monitor. No doubt, my mechanics and
my engineer deserve major credit for this: they’ve implemented all the
changes perfectly so that we had an optimum setup for this demanding
track.”
Mattias Ekström (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #5)
1st / 2nd, 1m 11.884s (73 laps)
“One thing’s clear after this day of testing: on this tight track, our brakes will
be in for a rough hour on Sunday. But we’ve found a good setup, which will
hopefully make life a little easier for them. I’m hoping for Swedish weather
during the race: 15 degrees max…”
Emanuele Pirro (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #44)
12th / 6th, 1m 12.117s (68 laps)
“I’ve got to thank Team Joest for having done a super job with the car’s
setup. I’m particularly pleased with the racing setup, which gives us a
genuine chance of competing for the super pole. I hope that our qualifying
performance will be as good as today’s testing.”
Frank Biela (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #45)
3rd / 10th, 1m 12.263s (80 laps)
“Things are looking a lot better here than during the first two races. This
morning, everything was running like a charm right from the start. In the
afternoon, we tried a few things, but they weren’t heading in the right
direction. We’re now going to analyse the data for tomorrow to get the best
out of the car.”
Martin Tomczyk (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #6)
5th / 12th place, 1m 12.338s (68 laps)
“My long run over half of the racing distance today gave me an impressive
foretaste of the tough conditions during the race. We’ve done lots of good
work for the qualifying session as well as the race and are extremely well
prepared.”
Christian Abt (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #11)
13th / 19th, 1m 12.785s (65 laps)
“There’s hardly another circuit at which the setup and preparation of the
brakes are as important as at Adria. That’s why we spent three hours
today experimenting in any possible direction. This has given us a lot of
important information, which will certainly be of benefit to us tomorrow and
day after tomorrow.”
Hans-Jürgen Abt (Team Director Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline)
“With places one and two, we’ve achieved a perfect start to the weekend.
Yet, tomorrow’s qualifying will be the real acid test: because overtaking will
be extremely difficult here at Adria, a good grid position is worth its weight
in gold. And today we’ve laid the foundation for this.”
Ralf Jüttner (Technical Director, Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest)
“Compliments to the team: things here are running a lot better at this point
than they were at Hockenheim and Estoril, and our drivers, as well, seem
to be handling the circuit that’s new to them well. Aside from the fact that
we had to change the battery on Emanule’s car several times, we
managed to pull off our full programme today. If we can repeat this result
in the qualifying session, I’ll certainly be satisfied.”
Dr Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi motorsport)
“Yet again, our Audi A4 DTM cars were running without any problems worth
mentioning. They’re consistently quick, as our long runs have shown. The
tests confirmed that the track is extremely hard on the brakes, but we’re
prepared for this. I’m sure that we’ll have a good setup for the qualifying
session as well. Today’s tests have shown how tight the fighting is at this
venue: the first ten cars are within four tenths of a second of each other.
The fans can look forward to a thrilling qualifying.”
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