From Audi Motorsport PR
DTM driver Mattias Ekström will run NASCAR Sprint race at Sonoma, replacing Brian Vickers, still unable to drive for health reasons.
At the 16th of a total of 36 NASCAR races, Mattias Ekström will drive car number 83. Ekström’s commitment was made possible because regular driver Brian Vickers, for whom the DTM star tested two weeks ago in preparation for the race, is still unable to compete for health reasons.
The more than 3.2-kilometer Infineon Raceway in Sonoma Valley is a road course on which 110 race laps are run. Head of Audi Sport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich is sending his 14-time DTM race winner off to the other side of the Atlantic with best wishes. Ekström’s eager anticipation of the race also contains a considerable amount of awe.
The weekend at the Infineon Raceway, which is located a little over an hour’s drive from San Francisco, will start on Friday, June 18, with free practice and qualifying.
Two more practice sessions are scheduled on Saturday before the 110-lap race starts at 12.00, local time, on Sunday.
Forty-three cars have been entered in the event. The race at Sonoma is the first of just two races on the calendar which are held on road courses.
DTM driver Mattias Ekström will run NASCAR Sprint race at Sonoma, replacing Brian Vickers, still unable to drive for health reasons.
At the 16th of a total of 36 NASCAR races, Mattias Ekström will drive car number 83. Ekström’s commitment was made possible because regular driver Brian Vickers, for whom the DTM star tested two weeks ago in preparation for the race, is still unable to compete for health reasons.
The more than 3.2-kilometer Infineon Raceway in Sonoma Valley is a road course on which 110 race laps are run. Head of Audi Sport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich is sending his 14-time DTM race winner off to the other side of the Atlantic with best wishes. Ekström’s eager anticipation of the race also contains a considerable amount of awe.
The weekend at the Infineon Raceway, which is located a little over an hour’s drive from San Francisco, will start on Friday, June 18, with free practice and qualifying.
Two more practice sessions are scheduled on Saturday before the 110-lap race starts at 12.00, local time, on Sunday.
Forty-three cars have been entered in the event. The race at Sonoma is the first of just two races on the calendar which are held on road courses.