DTM
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Following the resignation of its longstanding motorsport chief Norbert Haug at the end of 2012, and the recent appointment of Formula One legend Niki Lauda as chairman of its F1 team, Mercedes-Benz has now announced another shakeup in the executive lineup at its motorsport division. Austrian Toto Wolff, a shareholder of several motorsport companies including Williams, where he was also on the board of directors, has now been appointed director of Mercedes’ F1 team. Both Lauda and Wolff are also shareholders of Mercedes' F1 team, along with Ross Brawn, who remains team principal of the...
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BMW Celebrates DTM Win With Special-Edition M3 CoupeOnly 54 of these DTM Champion Edition M3 Coupes will be built.
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BMW Factory Driver Augusto Farfus Takes His Wife To Work: VideoAugusto 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...
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After Nearly Two Decades, BMW Returns To DTM: VideoOn 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...
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BMW Partners With Castrol On Its Return To DTM RacingHonoring 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.
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2012 BMW M3 DTM Safety Car RevealedBMW is retuning to the DTM series in 2012, and it's also supplying a specially-prepared M3 safety car.
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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 Accessories M3 DTM” race car completed two laps of the track with BMW works driver Dirk Werner behind the wheel and its rivals from Audi and Mercedes-Benz flanking it on either side. Old-school DTM fans will recognize from the typical BMW M stripes that the appearance is based on the original BMW...
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2012 Mercedes DTM AMG C-Coupe: 2011 Frankfurt Auto ShowLike 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...
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2012 Audi A5 DTM Live Photos: 2011 Frankfurt Auto ShowWhat'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...
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2012 Audi A5 DTM Race Car: 2011 Frankfurt Auto ShowThe 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.
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Michael Schumacher To Unveil 2012 Mercedes-Benz DTM Race Car In FrankfurtMercedes 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...
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Sinister BMW M3 DTM Concept: New GalleryThe racing version of the M3 destined for DTM competition looks menacing in its sinister raw-carbon clothing.
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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.
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Audi Previews A5-Based 2012 DTM Race CarThe 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.
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BMW M3 DTM Race Car Spy ShotsBMW 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...
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BMW To Unveil M3 DTM Race Car Concept Next MonthIn 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...
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2011 DTM Season Countdown, Time To Gear Up For U.S. DTM In 2013We 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...
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DTM Racing In U.S. Confirmed For 2013It'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...
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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 Grand-Am series events in the U.S. starting in 2013. For those unfamiliar with the series, the German DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) fields some of Germany's highest-performance four-doors in incredibly intense road racing. The cars are highly modified, the drivers are all out for blood, and the...