Tom Kristensen (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #12)
3rd place, “Super Pole“, 1m 14.557s
“My A4 has worked perfectly here right from the beginning. We have not
changed anything except tyres. I like the car, I like the track. Being fastest in
the two free practice session I was hoping for pole. We tried used tyres in
the ‘Super Pole’ which I believe was the right decision. But I missed pole
narrowly.”
Martin Tomczyk (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #6)
4th place, „Super Pole“, 1m 14.699s
“I like the track, it’s big fun to drive. I just hope that my car will not be
damaged, because you are really on the edge here. I had a little mistake in
my ‘Super Pole’ lap, but I don’t think I’m alone with this. That’s why I am
really happy with my position on the second row.”
Emanuele Pirro (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #44)
5th place “Super Pole“, 1m 14.775s
“I am really happy for the team because our beginning of the season was
difficult. After the Adria test we worked well on the car and I feel really good
on this race track. It was good to be in the Top Ten in qualifying and it is
even better to be fifth. That’s a good start for tomorrow which will be a
survival race.“
Rinaldo Capello (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #22)
8th place “Super Pole“, 1m 15.655s
“I am glad because obviously it does not happen so often that rookie
qualifies for the Top Ten in the DTM. In the ‘Super Pole’ qualifying,
however, I realised that I lack of experience, particularly with the tyres.“
Mattias Ekström (Audi Sport Team Abt / Audi A4 DTM #5)
9th place “Super Pole“, 1m 15.757s
“Qualifying was very hard for me because we were not sorted out very well
after free practice. After this, qualifying for ‘Super Pole’ was not so bad. Of
course it will be a difficult race because overtaking is almost impossible.
I’ll try to make up some places at the start.“
Christian Abt (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Audi A4 DTM #11)
11th place, 1m 15.214s
“I’m a little bit confused. During free practice, my car was simply superb. In
qualifying, instead, I suddenly did not have any grip on the rear wheels. For
tomorrow, I now can just try to do a faultless race hoping to make up some
positions.”
Frank Biela (Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest / Audi A4 DTM #45)
14th place, 1m 15.879s
“Of course I am not happy with this qualifying result. I should have been
faster. Obviously I’m entering the corners a bit to quickly. I have to look at
the data of my team-mates and try to learn from that.”
Peter Terting (Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline / Abt-Audi TT-R #23)
17th place, 1m 16.726s
“I’m very disappointed as I was much faster in free practice than in
qualifying. I believe we made a mistake with the tyres because the grip
came only after three laps.”
Hans-Jürgen Abt (Team Director Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline)
“We expected a little bit more from qualifying, but having two cars on the
second row of the grid is okay. In this heat, the fitness of the driver will play
an important role, that’s why I will put my money on Tom (Kristensen).”
Ralf Jüttner (Technical Director Audi Sport Infineon Team Joest)
“We managed to get two cars into the top ten and Emanuele in fifth place –
that’s a good position to start the race. I am proud of our team. It has done
a great job under this especially tough conditions we are facing here.”
Dr Wolfgang Ullrich (Head of Audi Motorsport)
“We’ve seen a good team effort. Unfortunately, it just was not enough for
the front row. It is very tight at the front of the grid. It’s difficult to predict what
this will mean for the race. Various Audi drivers have the possibility to race
at the front. We’ll try to make the best out of it.”
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