Christian Abt excels in last year's Audi at Hockenheim

In front of an impressive backdrop of spectators (116,000 over the entire weekend), Christian Abt proved the quality of a "used" Audi in the DTM season opener at Hockenheim: in his first DTM race for Audi Sport Team Joest, Abt - after a starting collision, in which he was not at fault, that sent him into a spin - fought his way up from 16th to fourth place, just missing a podium position with the champion's car from last year. Title defender Mattias Ekström, who had started the race from pole position with the new A4 DTM, was fighting a thrilling duel with Gary Paffett for several laps. The lead alternated between these two several times before Ekström - following his first pit stop - lost a lot of time behind slower cars to ultimately finish the race in fifth place.
Christian Abt excels in last year's Audi at Hockenheim 　（4月17日/car.kak.net）

Christian Abt が旧車のA4で４位に入り健闘しましたが、1〜3位までAMG-Mercedes C-Klasse に独占されてしまいました。ちなみに優勝は Jean Alesi。まだまだ頑張ってます。
多重衝突に巻き込まれて Tom Kristensen と Rinaldo Capello はリタイヤです。

4/17(日)、Hockenheimring で行われたDTM第１戦の結果は下記の通りです。
4位 Christian Abt/Audi Sport Team Joest Racing
5位 Mattias Ekström/Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
10位 Frank Stippler/Audi Sport Team Joest
11位 Allan McNish/Audi Sport Team Abt
13位 Pierre Kaffer/Audi Sport Team Joest Racing
16位 Martin Tomczyk/Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline
リタイヤ Tom Kristensen/Audi Sport Team Abt
リタイヤ Rinaldo Capello/Audi Sport Team Joest

公式結果一覧↓
http://www.dtm.de/ergebnis.en.php?file=ergebnisse/2005-04-17h.csv&rennen=2005-04-17