| 30,000 fans celebrate with Abt Sportsline in Kempten
Raceaction with Abt TT-RLast weekend motor sports was the main attraction in the Allgau-region: Abt Sportsline, the world-wide leading tuner for vehicles of the Volkswagen group, had opened its gates to visitors for three days. Approximately 30,000 Fans from the south of Germany, Austria and Switzerland enjoyed a spectacular combination of tuning, sports and show with the 8th Johann Abt Racing Show.
Celebrities such as the German actress Yvonne Catterfeld, Cora Schumacher, wife of Formula One race driver Ralf Schumacher, actor Fritz Wepper as well as the former ski jumping stars Sven Hannawald and Dieter Thoma were Abt Sportsline's guests during the Racing Show, which was presented by the newspaper "Allgauer Zeitung". Visitors to the show were offered an attractive programme. Low rider cars demonstrated spectacular jumps and trial bike riders showed acrobatic stunts on four metre high concrete pipes. The huge children's paradise of radio station ANTENNE BAYERN and other attractions such as the PlayStation simulator made the Racing Show to an event for the whole family.
Highlight of the day was the "Race Action", which was moderated by ANTENNE BAYERN-presenter Katrin Muller-Hohenstein, ARD-moderator Claus Lufen and motorsports legend Rainer Braun. DTM stars such as Mattias Ekstrom, DTM Champion 2004 and former Formula One driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen thrilled the audience by presenting their powerful and noisy race cars and wrapping the spectators in waves of burned rubber. Visitors to the show could enjoy a huge variety of spectacular race vehicles such as the 300 HP-strong Skoda Fabia of Red Bull-driver Andreas Aigner or the 1500 HP-strong MAN-race truck, which was driven by Fritz Kreuzpointner. Also the wining car of the 24 hours of Le Mans, the Audi R10 TDI, could be admired in Abt Sportsline's halls.
In a celebrity's pit stop, among others, Sven Hannawald, FC Bayern Munich football player Andreas Gorlitz and Cora Schumacher challenged the Audi works drivers Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Martin Tomczyk, Timo Scheider, Pierre Kaffer and Christian Abt. In an exciting duel the motorsports aces defeated the celebrities with a 0.2 second advantage. In the cockpit of the DTM car were Mattias Ekstrom and Yvonne Catterfeld; Fritz Wepper took over the job of the lollipop man. "I am really happy that so many fans visited us in Kempten and celebrated with us for three days. The huge show programme gave the visitors the opportunity to learn more about our involvements in motor sports and in the tuning business," says managing director.
After an action-loaded day on Abt Sportsline's premises, the party was continued until the early hours of the morning in Kempten's bigBOX. On Saturday night more than 3,000 motor sport fans came to "the Allgau Race Night" which was powered by the partners Red Bull and Playboy and enjoyed a sexy sports fashion show and spectacular staging of the current DTM cars.
On Saturday afternoon the spectators experienced a moment of shock when Tom Kristensen slid into a safety fence due to the track being wet. As a precaution nine fans were examined in hospital but they were able to go home with abrasions and bruises. "We are relieved that nobody was seriously injured. As an apology we have invited all fans concerned to the DTM finals in Hockenheim," said Hans-Jurgen Abt. |
