DTM

  • 2013 BMW M3 Coupe DTM Champion Edition

    Only 54 of these DTM Champion Edition M3 Coupes will be built.

  • Augusto and Liri Farfus, before going for a casual drive around the 'Ring
    BMW Factory Driver Augusto Farfus Takes His Wife To Work: Video

    Augusto Farfus is a Brazilian racing driver who currently gets paid by BMW to campaign an M3 in the DTM series. While Farfus may look young, his resume includes stints in the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 - 2010, a season in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in 2011 and two entries into...

  • On Sunday, April 29, BMW returns to DTM racing.
    After Nearly Two Decades, BMW Returns To DTM: Video

    On Sunday, April 29, BMW will return to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) series for the first time since the 1994 season. Granted, that absence includes the three-year-period from 1997 through 1999 when the DTM series was on hiatus, but that doesn’t make Sunday’s race at...

  • BMW's DTM M3 in Castrol / Aral livery
    BMW Partners With Castrol On Its Return To DTM Racing

    Honoring the long-term relationship between BMW and Castrol lubricants, one of the six BMW M3 DTM cars campaigning in 2012 will be painted in Castrol livery.

  • BMW's M3 safety car for the 2012 DTM Series
    2012 BMW M3 DTM Safety Car Revealed

    BMW is retuning to the DTM series in 2012, and it's also supplying a specially-prepared M3 safety car.

  • 2012 BMW M Performance Accessories M3 DTM race car
    BMW M Performance Accessories M3 DTM In Full Livery Debuts

    BMW used the DTM season finale at Hockenheim over the weekend to unveil its M3-based race car that will fulfill the brand’s comeback to the German touring car series next year. In front of thousands of fans at the German city’s Hockenheimring race track, the “BMW M Performance...

  • 2012 Mercedes DTM AMG C-Coupe

    Like its recently-unveiled Audi and BMW counterparts, the 2012 Mercedes DTM AMG C-Coupe is built around a carbon fiber monocoque, finned like a mutant manta ray, and powered by a 500-horsepower 4.0-liter V-8 engine. We want one. Unfortunately, the roughly 2,300-pound (with driver) DTM AMG C-Coupe is for racing, not the street, and it's likely so expensive it'd make even a supercar collector's head explode. Power is sent to the rear wheels through a six-speed, pneumatically operated, sequential, transverse-mounted gear box via a carbon fiber driveshaft and three-plate carbon fiber clutch...

  • 2012 Audi A5 DTM race car live photos
    2012 Audi A5 DTM Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    What's wrong with a hot German sports coupe getting a full-on, ground-up, carbon fiber monocoque race treatment? Nothing at all, that's what. Here's the proof. These live images of the 2012 Audi A5 DTM car show that, whatever BMW's M3 DTM car and Mercedes-Benz's AMG DTM car have to offer on track...

  • 2012 Audi A5 DTM race car live photos
    2012 Audi A5 DTM Race Car: 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show

    The 2012 Audi A5 DTM is a purpose-built racer with little more than some visual cues in common with the production car, but it'll do battle with the companies primary rivals, both on and off track: Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

  • 2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class DTM race car
    Michael Schumacher To Unveil 2012 Mercedes-Benz DTM Race Car In Frankfurt

    Mercedes GP Formula 1 drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg will help present Mercedes’ new C-Class Coupe based race car that will compete in the 2012 season of Germany’s DTM touring car series. The presentation will take place at the 2011 Frankfurt Auto Show on September 13...

  • 2012 BMW M3 DTM concept
    Sinister BMW M3 DTM Concept: New Gallery

    The racing version of the M3 destined for DTM competition looks menacing in its sinister raw-carbon clothing.

  • 2012 BMW M3 DTM concept
    2012 BMW M3 DTM Concept Revealed

    The 2012 BMW M3 DTM concept previews the race car the brand will use to return to the German racing series for the first time in two decades.

  • 2012 Audi R17 A5 DTM race car preview sketch

    The 2012 Audi A5 will do battle against BMW and Mercedes in next year's DTM championship before heading to the U.S. for several races in 2013.

  • BMW M3 DTM race car prototype
    BMW M3 DTM Race Car Spy Shots

    BMW announced late last year that it was planning a return to the highly competitive Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) touring car race series and then last month revealed that it would be unveiling a concept version of its new DTM race car on July 15. Now, less than a week out from that date, we...

  • BMW M3 GT race car
    BMW To Unveil M3 DTM Race Car Concept Next Month

    In preparation for next year’s DTM touring car race series BMW will be unveiling a new concept car previewing its M3 DTM race car that will compete in the 2012 season (current M3 GT race car pictured). The German automaker is returning to the series after an 18 year hiatus but is keen to show...

  • DTM at Oschesleben, 2007
    2011 DTM Season Countdown, Time To Gear Up For U.S. DTM In 2013

    We still have two years to wait until we'll see DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft) racing in the U.S., but we can start getting more familiar with the series now so we're ready to hit the ground running when it finally does come Stateside. This season, Audi is gearing up for the 2011 DTM...

  • DTM at Oschesleben, 2007
    DTM Racing In U.S. Confirmed For 2013

    It's official: Grand-Am and NASCAR will partner to bring a 12-race U.S.-based championship for the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) series. We reported on an unconfirmed rumor that this might happen earlier in the month, and let's just say, we have our ice skates ready for this frosty day...

  • DTM at Oschesleben, 2007
    Buy Your Ice Skates, German DTM Racing Coming To U.S. In 2013

    Until recently I simply didn't get the fascination with going fast in endless ovals and circles. Then I drove a school bus at Dodge City Raceway, and my perspective changed. Now the same may happen for millions of NASCAR fans, as the German DTM series is planning to race alongside NASCAR and...

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