From the racetrack Audi motorsport news

Jun 5, 2005

At Brno, defending champion Mattias Ekström gave the new Audi A4 DTM its first victory and took the overall lead of Europe´s most popular Touring Car Series. With his second-place finish, Tom Kristensen made a perfect 1-2 victory. The two Audi drivers had a thrilling fight with the former runner-up of the Formula 1 World Championship, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, before taking the lead and increasing the gap to almost 25 seconds.

In front of 38,000 spectators, Audi also showed a strong team performance: Five of the eight Audi A4 DTM cars scored points with top-eight positions. Allan McNish scored his first ever DTM points, finishing seventh despite a ‘drive-trough’ penalty. Christian Abt was the best driver of a year-old car in sixth position, Frank Stippler finished eighth. Almost 2.5 million spectators watched the race “live” on German TV.

Result and points
Brno (CZ), 5 June, DTM round 4
1 Mattias Ekström (Audi A4 DTM) 30 laps in 58m 52.558s
2 Tom Kristensen (Audi A4 DTM) + 0.288s
3 Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Opel) + 24.694s
4 Gary Paffett (Mercedes) + 28.503s
5 Jamie Green (Mercedes) + 30.997s
6 Christian Abt (Audi A4 DTM) + 34.555s
7 Allan McNish (Audi A4 DTM) + 34.815s
8 Frank Stippler (Audi A4 DTM) + 36.102s
...
10 Rinaldo Capello (Audi A4 DTM) + 43.652s
12 Pierre Kaffer (Audi A4 DTM) + 55.934s
14 Martin Tomczyk (Audi A4 DTM) + 1m 36.170s

Positions afer 4 of 11 rounds: 1 Ekström, 27 points; 2 Paffett, 24; 3 Kristensen, 22; 4 Häkkinen and Alesi, 17; 6 Abt, 8; ... 10 Kaffer and Stippler, 4; 13 Tomczyk, 3.

Next race: Oschersleben (D), 26 June