DTM

  • 2012 DTM regulation changes

    2012 DTM regulation changes

    There are some changes in the 2012 DTM regulations compared with the 2011 season. The new DTM cars are now two-door coupes instead of the four-door saloons used previously. The cars are longer (5,010 mm), wider (1,950 mm) and lower (1,210 mm). Minimum vehicle weight has been set at 1,100 kilos. The new safety concept…

  • Eight drivers will race with Mercedes AMG C-Coupe in the 2012 DTM

    Eight drivers will race with Mercedes AMG C-Coupe in the 2012 DTM

    In 2012 DTM, a total of eight Mercedes-Benz drivers will contest ten points-scoring races and a show event in Munich’s Olympic Park. New to the Mercedes-Benz DTM driver line-up this year are Spanish driver Roberto Merhi (21, Junge Sterne Mercedes AMG C-Coupé) and Canadian Robert Wickens (23, stern Mercedes AMG C-Coupé). Merhi has been part…

  • BMW signs Martin Tomczyk as works driver

    BMW signs Martin Tomczyk as works driver

    BMW has completed yet another stage in its preparations for a return to the DTM: the newly crowned DTM champion, Martin Tomczyk (DE), will be lining up on the grid for BMW Motorsport in 2012. Following several positive discussions in recent weeks, the two sides have agreed a deal. Twenty nine-year-old Tomczyk is the fourth…

  • Coulthard and R. Schumacher are both racing for Mercedes in the 2011 DTM

    Coulthard and R. Schumacher are both racing for Mercedes in the 2011 DTM

    The two former Formula One drivers David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher will once again be racing the AMG Mercedes C-Class for the 2011 season. They are the best-known members of the DTM Mercedes-Benz teams. Both drivers each have more than twenty years’ motor racing experience, and from a joint total of 426 Grand Prix starts…