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The new Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup will be staged as the partner series of the DTM in its 2010 debut season. There are a total of nine races are on the calendar, of which six will be in Germany and one in Great Britain.
There will be some 30 contenders in the ...
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Audi AG shocked the DTM fans on Thursday when announcing their official factory lineup for the season to come. Unlike in the previous few seasons, the German manufacturer will align 5 works driver on the DTM grid. However, that's not a bigger news than the one that ...
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While intensively preparing for another campaign in the DTM series, Mattias Ekstrom admitted that plenty of German fans will switch attention to the Formula One racing season for 2010. And that's because the 7-time winner of the F1 title Michael Schumacher is back ...
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The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) today confirmed their calendar for the 2010 season, and the first news is the the German series will not discover its champion on European soil, but in Asia. According to the press release from DTM, Shanghai was chosen to host the ...
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Jarvis Replaces Kristensen in Audi's DTM LineupDTMAudi AG recently confirmed its racing programme for the upcoming season of the DTM series, proving once again that the German championship is regarded as top priority by the Ingolstadt based car maker. As announced at the beginning of last season, Tom Kristensen will no longer be part of the team next year, as he chose to switch completely to sports car racing. Under the circumstances, the Audi ABT Sportsline team proceeded to some changes prior to the start of the 2010 preparations, announcing that British driver Oliver Jarvis – formerly member of the Audi Team Phoenix in the DTM – has been promoted to the works' driver role within the Audi organization. “We are thus giving our youngest ‘factory’ driver the chance to prove his prowess in a current ... >> Read more |
A possible link-up between the two racing series has been circulating in the media in recent days, following a confirmed delegation from the DTM-organizing ITR to Japan.
The delegation is supposed to assess the possibility of joining the series sometime in the ...
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A few days ago, we were telling you that David Coulthard is considering a return to motor racing for the 2010 season. And it's not exactly Formula One that DC had in mind, but apparently the next best thing, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM).
Known to be ...
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Timo Scheider today became the second driver in DTM’s modern era - after Bernd Schneider - to successfully defending his title. The German driver entered the history books on Sunday, after securing his second consecutive DTM title in career thanks to a great ...
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The last race of the season will be competed with the trophy up for grabs, as Mercedes' Gary Paffett's win at Dijon-Prenois kept the title fight alive in the 2009 DTM season. In a race dominated by tire punctures – the majority of them suffered by Audi ...
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German manufacturer BMW will not join the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) in 2010. The news was not reported by a championship official or a German media, but by Mercedes Benz' motorsport director Norbert Haug. As the Stuttgart based car maker is a strong player ...
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Timo Scheider can now focus on his second consecutive DTM title, as the German driver won a comfortable race at Barcelona over the weekend to further increase his lead in the overall classification. Only a miracle would prevent Scheider from succeeding in his ...
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Mercedes' Paul di Resta dominated the Brands Hatch weekend in the DTM from beginning to end, winning his first race of the season from pole position before his home crowd. Di Resta left nothing to chance on Sunday and, despite two restarts that wiped off his ...
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Audi left the Nurburgring on Sunday in a triumphant style, as the Ingolstadt based team clinched the top four spots of the DTM race yesterday afternoon. Martin Tomczyk, Timo Scheider and Mattias Ekstrom led the race from beginning to end and left no room for podium ...
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After announcing their withdrawal from the sport of Formula One last Wednesday, it was only natural for the media to start rumoring on where the Munich based manufacturer will redirect their money in terms of motor racing programmes. In the same press conference ...
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As it happened in Formula One a few years ago, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM, German Touring Car Masters) officials have decided to implement a new development-freeze policy inside the sport. Starting August 17th this year, neither Audi nor Mercedes-Benz ...
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Timo Scheider finally gave the Audi fans something to cheer for on Sunday, as the reigning DTM champion scored his first win of the season at Oschersleben. The German manufacturer was to secure all podium places on Sunday, as Mattias Ekstrom and Martin Tomczyk ...
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The 42-year-old Dane took the pole position for the Orscersleben race on Sunday, as the 3.696 kilometers long track from the Magdeburg region saw an overwhelming Audi domination on Saturday.
The car manufacturer from Ingolstadt secured the first 5 positions on ...
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Gary Paffett seems to make the most of driving a 2009-spec machinery inside the DTM, after two years of driving one-year old AMG Mercedes C-Klasses for the German marque's secondary teams. Being promoted to works driver this year, the 28-year old Brit scored his second ...
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Jamie Green became only the second DTM driver to win a race in a one-year old spec car, as he took his AMG Mercedes C-Klasse to victory during this weekend's race at Norisring. The Briton denied Audi of their first win at the German circuit in more than 7 years ...
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Gary Paffett's incredible bad luck during the season opener at Hockenheim turned into great strategy at Lausitz, as the Briton powered to his first DTM win in almost 2 years. While thanking his team for the pit stop strategy during the Sunday race, the Mercedes ...
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