DTM reveals 2015 weekend racing format
The 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters will feature nine racing weekends with a double race format, each with their own separate qualifying session.
Back at the 2014 season finale in Hockenheim, DTM organisers announce their plans to implement a two race per event format, in a bid to increase the show following suggestions and petitions from fans. In the same move, it was announced that the option tyres would be scrapped for this year.
Today, ITR e.V., the series promoter, has announced the full details of the new agenda for the 2015 season, which will be heavily based in and around Germany, with nine meetings.
There will be two races, to be held one each on Saturday and Sunday, both awarding full championship points. The first race of the weekend will have a duration of 40 minutes plus one lap, where a pit stop for tyres is optional.
On Sundays, a second race will be held, which will have a duration of 60 minutes plus one lap, and where one tyre change will be compulsory.
Each race will have a separate 20-minute qualifying session to be held each race day, resulting on two separate starting grids.
Hans Werner Aufrecht, Chairman of ITR e.V., is confident that the new format will bring back the excitement fans and spectators are looking for: “With two championship rounds per weekend we provide the spectators twice as much of the things that count: more door-to-door battles, more thrilling decisions, and more fascinating motor racing. And we are convinced that the differing race formats will make for entertaining and thrilling races.”
The 2015 DTM season will start in Hockenheim on the 3rd of May.
