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 »
Mercedes’ young Spanish drivers, Daniel Juncadella and Roberto Merhi, are hoping that strategy and varied weather conditions will help move them through the field after they qualified 14th and 20th respectively. Juncadella, who made his debut at Hockenheim this season, is the only one of the Mercedes drivers to have not scored a point so … More »
BMW’s rookie Marco Wittmann has described his second position grid slot alongside stablemate Bruno Spengler as ‘awesome.’ The MTEK team driver was promoted from a test driver role for 2013, and has impressed with his strong start to the season. The 24-year old took ninth on his debut at Hockenheim, and raced to fourth after … More »
Veteran DTM driver, Manuel Reuter, has tipped Augusto Farfus to win the 2013 drivers’ championship. Reuter enjoyed a nine year DTM career with Opel from 1993 to 2005, and retired when the company withdrew from the series eight years ago. He also won the International Touring Car Championship in 1996 whilst driving an Opel Calibra … More »
For round three of the DTM season, the teams and drivers head to the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria, for one of the most picturesque and exciting races on the calendar. The track, then known as the A1-Ring, originally came into use in 2001, one year after the DTM was revived, and remained on … More »