Mattias Ekström, Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline (Q: 15th):
“This was the first time in the DTM that I wasn’t in the Super Pole. So we’re not only a little, but very, disappointed. Our philosophy with the set-up of the car didn’t work out, our work went in the wrong direction. Kimi Räikkönen won recently in Formula 1 from 17th place – so it may work from 15th place on the grid as well…Giving up is definitely the last thing we’re going to do here – even though the chances for victory are now obviously very, very, very small.”
Gary Paffett, DaimlerChrysler Bank AMG-Mercedes (Q: 5th/SP: 6th): “We had a very good set-up for my car, but after my fifth place in qualifying I had to go out quite early in the single-lap qualifying. Therefore the conditions on the drying track were not ideal; but the sixth position on the grid is not a bad basis for the race and the title fight.”
