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Ekström and Scheider wins Spa 24 hours for Audi

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Audi men Mattias Ekström and Timo Scheider won the legendary Spa 24 hours race last weekend.
“Wow, what a race! To start I thought that I was in the DTM because everybody was driving so wildly,” said Ekström.

The DTM duo shared Audi A8 LMS with Belgian driver Greg Franchi for Audi Sport Team WRT.

“The guys did a fantastic job from the very first minute of practice and stayed cool in spite of the enormous pressure. Our Audi R8 LMS survived the 24 hours without a single scratch. A marvelous weekend for all of us,” said Scheider.

The trio won the race two laps ahead of BMW Team Schubert with drivers Dirk Werner, Claudia Hurtgen and Edward Sandström.

Audi DTM driver Mike Rockenfeller took part in the race as well, but had to retire from the race after an accident.

“I’m delighted for the WRT team and its driver. Unfortunately things didn’t go so well for us. Obviously it would have been fantastic to celebrate a 24-hour win after the personal 12-hour win at Bathurst. We had the pace. Phoenix had a sensational pit stop strategy and incredible speed when changing tires. We really had all the trumps cards. Unfortunately Christopher [Haase] lost the car under the most difficult conditions,” said Rockenfeller.

DTM resumes at Nürburgring this weekend.