Nuremberg, 22 July 2006

Motorsport News from the DTM team

• “Tokio Hotel” visited Heinz-Harald Frentzen • Audi RS 4 Avant new “company car” of the Audi drivers • FIA President Max Mosley visits the Norisring

Audi driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen received prominent guests: At mid-day on AUDI AG Kommunikation Saturday the popular teeny band Tokio Hotel visited the garage of Audi Sport 85045 Ingolstadt www.audi.com Team where the former Formula 1 driver explained the secrets of his Veltins DTM. For Sunday, pop singer Jeanette has announced her visit to the Audi garage.

The nine Audi DTM factory drivers received their new Audi RS 4 Avant cars at the Norisring. The estate car version of the high-performance model replaces the saloon as the “company cars” which had been available to the drivers since the Hockenheim season opener.

FIA president Max Mosley paid a visit to the DTM at the Norisring and was obviously impressed with the professionalism of the series, the Audi A4 DTM and Audi’s Team & Media Hospitality alongside the Dutzendteich lake.

Arno Zensen, Team Director of Audi Sport , is absent at the Norisring because of a case of food poisoning. His part is temporarily assumed by Kimmo Liimatainen, the coordinator of the Neustadt-based team. The entire Audi squad wishes Arno Zensen a speedy recovery.

The former Formula 1 driver, six-time winner of Le Mans and winner of the Dakar Rally, Jacky Ickx, travelled to the Norisring to watch his daughter Vanina’s outing in the Audi Original Zubehör Audi A4 DTM. In the garage of the Futurecom TME customer team the 61-year-old observed the activities during the tests on Friday. “The cars have a much higher quality and complexity than the sports prototypes I drove in the eighties”, he said in praise of the A4 DTM.

On Thursday evening, Audi driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen visited the marshals of the MCN without whom the Norisring race would be inconceivable. Frentzen gave away belt bags from the Audi collection.

On Friday night Heinz-Harald Frentzen was a guest of honour during the unveiling of a memorial plaque for Pedro Rodriguez who died in a crash at the Norisring on 11 July 1971.

An Audi motorcade before the start of the DTM race has almost become a tradition at the Norisring. This time Audi presents the new Audi TT to its numerous fans in AUDI AG the grandstands lining the 2.3-kilometre circuit. The motorcade is run between 1:25 Kommunikation 85045 Ingolstadt to 1:40 p.m. www.audi.com

On Friday used small lettering (“Happy birthday Loris”) below the side windows of his Gebrauchtwagen:plus Audi A4 DTM car to congratulate his son Loris on his third birthday.

Le Mans winner , junior driver Bastian Kolmsee and former DTM driver Patrick Huisman are supporting Audi at the wheel of the three racing taxis this weekend.

Only four weeks after the historic first triumph of a diesel-powered sportscar in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Audi is presenting a book covering the story behind the creation of the Audi R10 TDI. Author Herbert Völker’s work was delivered to the Norisring hot from the press and is available at the Audi fan shop for 29.00 euros.

In the exhibition area Audi is presenting the Audi R10 TDI to the fans at the Norisring, who also have the chance to marvel at a 1938 Type D.

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