In part two of its DTM mid-term review, TouringCarTimes looks at the following five men who make up the top-10 drivers of 2013. 6. Mattias Ekström: Abt Sportsline (Car #11) It’s not really a secret that the Swede hasn’t had the easiest time of things since Audi switched from the A4 to the A/RS5. However, on … More »
Following the fifth round of the DTM season at the Norisring, the series’ will start the second half of 2013 in Moscow on the weekend of August 2nd. However, in the three week break between the two events, TouringCarTimes decided to bang heads, spend some time on Skype, and agree on a two part analysis … More »
BMW’s Augusto Farfus says he is “not worried at all” about his dip in form since Brands Hatch. The RBM team driver won the Hockenheim season opener and qualified second at Brands Hatch. However, he retired from the British race, and has since managed to score just eight points, all of which came in the following … More »
Factory Porsche GT driver Nick Tandy could be in line to race Motorbase Performance’s third Ford Focus after testing it at Brands Hatch, the team have said. The 28-year-old ran at the Kent circuit on Friday, and team principal David Bartrum has said it is possible he could race in the BTCC at some stage … More »
Speedworks Motorsport’s Dave Newsham landed his best result of the season in the sodden third race at Croft, and hopes it will be the springboard to success in the second half of the campaign. The popular 45-year-old has showed glimpses of his 2012 form in the NGTC Toyota Avensis, but a number of non-finishes and … More »
RMG BMW’s Martin Tomczyk has conceded to Autosport, that he is “definitely getting desperate” to score points and win races again. Tomczyk, who won the 2011 DTM title with Audi, switched to BMW for 2012, but despite being just four points off of eventual title winner, stablemate Bruno Spengler, at last season’s mid point, he … More »
Audi’s Mattias Ekström has not had the easiest time of things over the last few seasons. The 2004 and 2007 DTM champion endured a winless season last year, and in 2013, retired from the Hockenheim season opener after qualifying fifth. Despite putting in some impressive recovery drives to score points in the next two rounds … More »
Hans-Jurgen Abt, the team principal of the Audi teams Abt Sportsline and Team Abt, is hoping his drivers will have a change of luck in this weekend’s DTM race at the Lausitzring. Since the start of the season, each of the four Abt drivers – Mattias Ekstrom, Timo Scheider, Jamie Green and Adrien Tambay – … More »
Mercedes’ Christian Vietoris has conceded that the Stuttgart manufacturer needs to improve on its Saturday qualifying performances if it is to win races in 2013. After optimising a good strategy in yesterday’s race, the HWA team driver finished seventh. However like his stablemates, he struggled in qualifying and lined up sixteenth. The best placed Mercedes … More »
Reigning DTM champion Bruno Spengler led home a BMW 1-2-3 ahead of rookie stablemates Marco Wittmann and Timo Glock at Spielberg. The result is BMW’s first victory at the track since it returned to the series in 2012, as well as Spengler’s first DTM win around the circuit and his first of the season. Furthermore, … More »