Audi Motorsport press release
Audi will start the 2011 DTM season with a newly formed squad including three newcomers with the goal of bringing back the title of the popular international touring car series to Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.
New to the Audi DTM team are Swiss Rahel Frey (25), Portuguese Filipe Albuquerque (25) and Italian Edoardo Mortara (24).
Albuquerque comes from single-seater racing and was Formula 1 test driver for Red Bull and Toro Rosso. In 2010 he drove an Audi R8 LMS for Audi Sport Italia in the Italian GT Championship and was runner-up after scoring two victories and ten podium finishes.
The Portuguese made international headlines following his sensational "Race of Champions" triumph in Düsseldorf in November 2010 where he beat Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel and World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb.
Rahel Frey was also mainly active in single-seater racing until now. The young Swiss girl recorded her greatest success to date at the Nürburgring in 2009 when she became the first lady driver in German Formula 3 Cup history to win a race. In 2010, she contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GT1 car in an "all women" team.
Geneva-born Edoardo Mortara, who has both French and Italian citizenship but races under the Italian flag, is the reigning Formula 3 Euro Series champion. The former Volkswagen factory driver became, in addition, the first driver in history to win the famous Formula 3 race in Macau twice.
Mortara and Albuquerque contest the DTM for Audi Sport Team Rosberg. Rahel Frey will be Martin Tomczyk’s teammate at Audi Sport Team Phoenix.
Audi will start the 2011 DTM season with a newly formed squad including three newcomers with the goal of bringing back the title of the popular international touring car series to Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm.
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| Edoardo Mortara (Photo: WRI2) |
New to the Audi DTM team are Swiss Rahel Frey (25), Portuguese Filipe Albuquerque (25) and Italian Edoardo Mortara (24).
Albuquerque comes from single-seater racing and was Formula 1 test driver for Red Bull and Toro Rosso. In 2010 he drove an Audi R8 LMS for Audi Sport Italia in the Italian GT Championship and was runner-up after scoring two victories and ten podium finishes.
The Portuguese made international headlines following his sensational "Race of Champions" triumph in Düsseldorf in November 2010 where he beat Formula 1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel and World Rally Champion Sébastien Loeb.
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| Filipe Albuquerque (Photo: WRI2) |
Rahel Frey was also mainly active in single-seater racing until now. The young Swiss girl recorded her greatest success to date at the Nürburgring in 2009 when she became the first lady driver in German Formula 3 Cup history to win a race. In 2010, she contested the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a GT1 car in an "all women" team.
Geneva-born Edoardo Mortara, who has both French and Italian citizenship but races under the Italian flag, is the reigning Formula 3 Euro Series champion. The former Volkswagen factory driver became, in addition, the first driver in history to win the famous Formula 3 race in Macau twice.
Mortara and Albuquerque contest the DTM for Audi Sport Team Rosberg. Rahel Frey will be Martin Tomczyk’s teammate at Audi Sport Team Phoenix.
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| Rahel Frey (Photo: Matech) |