This weekend marks the 81st running of the Norisring street race, a German touring/sportscar classic that has been a staple of the DTM since the series’ rebirth in 2000.Motorsport Club Nuremberg is responsible for organising the event,…
The Triple Eight duo led from the start, Feeney from pole position and Brown for third on the grid, the pair split by a fired-up Brodie Kostecki.Points leader Brown shadowed his younger team-mate in the opening half of the 48-lap journey,…
From second on the grid Feeney (Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro) had to follow polesitter James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet) for the opening three laps before finding a gap at Turn 6, and building a lead of up to three seconds.As the…
The Schubert BMW driver started 14th, but a masterful pitstop strategy enabled him to take the lead and win the second race of DTM’s Zandvoort weekend.Mirko Bortolotti and Kelvin van der Linde joined him on the podium, with the latter…
The former Formula 1 driver remained in control throughout for a dominant victory from pole in his Emil Frey Ferrari to add to his win at the Oschersleben season opener.Three-time DTM champion Rene Rast finished second for his first podium…
The German manufacturer took the covers off the facelifted version of its GT3 challenger at the Nurburgring on Wednesday night, just days before the circuit is due to host its annual 24-hour enduro on 1-2 June.The M4 GT3 has received a…
Van der Linde had moved into the lead of Sunday’s DTM race thanks to a brilliant overcut strategy executed by Abt Sportsline, jumping both team-mate Ricardo Feller and Manthey EMA driver Thomas Preining in a single go.But the South African…
Manthey EMA’s Preining fell behind both van de Linde and Feller at one stage, but quickly repassed the Abt Audi duo to claim his first win of the 2024 season and move up to second in the standings.At the start of the race, the reigning…
Despite heavy rain prompting two red flag periods and leading to a start/stop race, van der Linde kept his calm to convert pole position into a dominant victory over the Mercedes of Maro Engel. Defending champion Thomas Preining ended up…
When the Walkinshaw Andretti United's crew released Mostert from the pitlane after a tyre change, he drove into the path of Tickford's Thomas Randle, forcing him to hit the brakes.A resulting five-second time penalty left Mostert to try to…
Mostert, who led a front row lockout for Walkinshaw Andretti United in qualifying, followed his team-mate Ryan Wood for the opening 14 laps of the 55-lap race before taking the lead and pacing himself to a 4.9s win over Triple Eight's Will…
At a venue which has been something of a bogey circuit for the Walkinshaw Andretti United team in recent years. Mostert topped the times for all of the session in the Ford Mustang, setting a time of 55.0930s to be 0.17s clear of Nick…
Starting this year, the pitlane is effectively closed whenever a FCY or a safety car is deployed in the DTM, with any urgent visit to the pits made during that period not counting towards a driver’s mandatory stop.The purpose of this new…
After already having to alter the programme for this month’s Lausitzring round at the request of TV partner ProSieben, which is also broadcasting the Ice Hockey World Championship, the start of the second Zandvoort race has also been…
The squad had already played down expectations heading into its sophomore season in the DTM, claiming that the organisers ‘won’t allow’ Porsche to win back-to-back titles in the series after its 2023 success.But so uncompetitive were the…
Waters, an 11-time winner in Supercars, will make his second Truck start of the 2024 season at Kansas with ThorSport Racing.He is adamant he would like to find an eventual home in a NASCAR national series, but knows the path is not an easy…
Wittmann was leading Saturday’s opening race of 2024 when his Schubert Motorsport-entered BMW M4 GT3 suddenly began to slow down with four laps to go, before coming to a halt at the start/finish straight.The two-time DTM champion had…
Engstler had been running a steady third behind polesitter Bortolotti and Mercedes rival Luca Stolz in the first part of the race, but an impressive strategy call from Grasser to pull him into the pits just before a Full Course Yellow…
BMW driver Wittmann was on course to take an unlikely victory from the last row of the grid after timing his pitstop to perfection, with Schubert Motorsport having brought him in for his mandatory stop just before a Full Course Yellow was…
Vermeulen is about to embark on his second season in the DTM with Emil Frey Racing after a rookie campaign in which he finished 16th in the standings with a best finish of fifth at the Sachsenring.The 21-year-old’s Ferrari 296 GT3 will…
A total of 20 drivers are competing in the DTM in 2024, representing nine teams and seven different manufacturers.The youngest driver on the grid is 19-year-old Ben Dorr, while Maro Engel is now the oldest racer in the field at 37…
Only 20 cars are entered for the full 2024 DTM season, marking the fewest entries seen in the championship since it first switched to GT3 regulations in 2021.High operating costs, reduced manufacturer support and economic conditions at…
Porsche romped to a DTM championship treble in only its second season in the category last year, as it swept the drivers, teams and the manufacturers’ titles with Thomas Preining and the Manthey EMA team.The feat was particularly…
While competing in a private test at the same venue last Thursday, Schmid reported physical discomfort and made a trip to hospital late in the day, where it was discovered that the pain was caused by his appendix.In a post on Instagram,…
Under threatening skies that never delivered any rain until the cooldown lap, the duo locked into 1-2 formation from about half-race distance as any challengers dropped back.It enabled Brown to take his third win of the season after…
The Auckland-born driver took the lead after the first of two pit cycles on a wet 3.3km Taupo International Motorsport Park.Heimgartner took advantage of Brad Jones Racing's ace pitcrew, the nearly perennial winner of Supercars’ teams…
The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver lapped the Taupo International Motorsport Park track in 1:26.4937s to be just 0.03s clear of Matt Payne (Grove Racing) and Will Davison (Dick Johnson Racing).“We are pretty close with the car in…
The Austrian driver will continue to carry his preferred 91 number on his Manthey EMA-entered 911 GT3 R in 2024, despite having earned the right to flaunt his champion status as part of the DTM rulebook.Current BMW driver Rene Rast was the…
The ADAC organised a mandatory two-day test at Hockenheim on 9-10 April, giving all teams a chance to get some running under their belts before the opening round of the season at Oschersleben on 27-28 April.Given that testing has been…
The opening race at the north-east German venue on 25 May falls on the same day as the two semi-finals for the Ice Hockey World Championship, which are also being broadcast by DTM’s German broadcast partner ProSieben.As such, a decision…