Audi A4 DTM
“You’re always sliding the car, spanking it yet controlling it all the time. As a driver, you’re more aware of the balance than the sheer speed.” It’s 2004, and works Audi driver – and soon to be eight-time Le Mans winner – Tom Kristensen is tightening my race harness in an Audi A4 DTM car.
These mid-Noughties German touring cars really were something to behold. Audi, BMW, Merc and Opel all fielded increasingly lairy-looking cars, – the 2004 A4 was one of the most successful. These cars, unlike their real-world cousins, had carbon body panels clothing a tubular spaceframe chassis, complete with carbon safety cell for the driver and carbon crash structures, front and rear.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of Top Gear South Africa.
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