It is the only city street race of the year and Audi Sport Team abt Sportsline’s home round.: the showdown on the streets of Nuremberg.
The most recent triumph of an Audi driver on the 2.3-kilometer city street circuit between the Dutzendteich lake and the soccer stadium dates back 14 years. In 2002, the Frenchman Laurent Aiello in the compact Abt-Audi TT-R managed to intercept Mercedes-Benz driver Bernd Schneider in the home bend and to win the race. The race with the ABT driver taking victory is still one oft he most spectacular ones in the history of DTM.
“It continues to be the race I’d tremendously love to win,” says Mattias Ekström. “I even saw the checkered flag in first place once, but wasn’t allowed to keep the trophy. This year, I’ll try to take the big trophy home once more. However, it’s going to be a close race again.”
Ekström has driven many strong races before at Nuremberg but nobody ventures any predictions in the DTM anymore this year. The first six races saw six different winners. The top spot on the grid went to six different drivers as well. The top six in the drivers’ standings are within 15 points of each other. Three of them are Audi drivers: Mattias Ekström (46 points), Jamie Green (45 points) and Edoardo Mortara (44 points).
In 2015, the entire field at the Norisring was within 0.625 seconds in Sunday’s qualifying. ARD will be airing live coverage on “Das Erste” (Saturday starting at 13:00 CEST, Sunday starting at 12:45).
