Double outing for Audi: to early prepare for the coming season, the Audi teams are going to simultaneously test at Le Castellet, France (13th to 15th December), and Almeria, Spain (10th to 14th December). While le Castellet will be the venue of tests with the new Audi A4 DTM, Phoenix and TME will hold a selection course at Almeria.
Audi’s preparations for the coming season have already been running flat out for several months. Components of the new Audi A4 DTM, internally called ‘R14’, have been tested early and successfully. Now, the new model will be subjected to an extensive testing programme before contesting its maiden race, on 13th April, 2008, at the Hockenheimring. Still, it has not yet been decided which of the four Abt drivers that have been confirmed for 2008 at the Essen Motor Show is going to carry out the tests at le Castellet.
Audi Sport Team Phoenix and TME have started their testing programme somewhat earlier. During the tests at Spain’s Almeria, the teams’ focus will be mainly set on selecting new drivers. Altogether, the customer and independent Audi teams have available six DTM seats and only two of them have been secured, to date, with Mike Rockenfeller and Alexandre Prémat having been confirmed, for 2008. At Almeria, the teams are looking – inter alia – for a successor of Vanina Ickx who announced her retirement from DTM racing, at Hockenheim.”
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