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02-22-09, 11:13 AM
Legge excited by 'best opportunity of career'
Katherine Legge has admitted that she will have no excuses for failing to improve her performances in this year's DTM campaign, having been elevated to a better car and the team that won last year's drivers' title.
The Briton knew that she was in for a tough time when she was handed one of Futurecom-TME's two-year old customer A4 DTMs for her rookie season in 2008, but plugged away and produced the occasional result to rival that of vastly more experienced team-mate Christijan Albers. Her efforts did not go unnoticed and, with Colin Kolles' team being given the chance to run privateer R10 TDi prototypes in the Le Mans Series, she has been drafted in to the Team Abt Sportsline squad for 2009.
Although she will still be running an older car, stepping up from a two-year old model to one just a year from latest spec, she will undoubtedly benefit from the experience, not only of the Abt team, but also team-mates of the calibre of reigning champion Timo Scheider, Tom Kristensen, Mattias Ekstrom and Martin Tomczyk, who all remain with the squad in 2009 machinery.
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Katherine Legge has admitted that she will have no excuses for failing to improve her performances in this year's DTM campaign, having been elevated to a better car and the team that won last year's drivers' title.
The Briton knew that she was in for a tough time when she was handed one of Futurecom-TME's two-year old customer A4 DTMs for her rookie season in 2008, but plugged away and produced the occasional result to rival that of vastly more experienced team-mate Christijan Albers. Her efforts did not go unnoticed and, with Colin Kolles' team being given the chance to run privateer R10 TDi prototypes in the Le Mans Series, she has been drafted in to the Team Abt Sportsline squad for 2009.
Although she will still be running an older car, stepping up from a two-year old model to one just a year from latest spec, she will undoubtedly benefit from the experience, not only of the Abt team, but also team-mates of the calibre of reigning champion Timo Scheider, Tom Kristensen, Mattias Ekstrom and Martin Tomczyk, who all remain with the squad in 2009 machinery.
http://pix.crash.net/motorsport/360/494081.jpg
crash.net (http://www.crash.net/DTM/News/143109/1/legge_excited_by_best_opportunity_of_career.html)