DTM News

The launch of a new DTM campaign usually brings with it some sort of tweaking of the rulebook, and 2009 was no difference as organisers took the wraps off the series in Dusseldorf at the weekend.

Precisely a month away from the start of the 2009 campaign, Mercedes-Benz has revealed its slim-lined, eight-strong DTM driver line-up - one that it hopes will prove up to the task of stealing the laurels back from Audi after two years in which its Ingolstadt rival has held the upper hand.

Mercedes has revealed that Ralf Schumacher has extended his contract to continue in the DTM for the coming season, with the former F1 racer moving up to a 2009-spec Mercedes C-Class for his second year in the series.

Susie Stoddart has stated her belief that there will be a 'successful female Formula 1 driver' in her lifetime - but stopped short of suggesting that it will be her.

Susie Stoddart will seek to pick up her first DTM points of the year later this month as the series heads to Brands Hatch for the eighth round of the campaign.

Katherine Legge's lack of Nurburgring experience counted heavily against her as the latest round of the DTM took place in some typical Eifel conditions, but she showed some fighting spirit before her race ended earlier than expected.

The organisers of the DTM confirmed the provisional calendar for 2009 on Tuesday and like this year it will again feature eleven rounds in six European countries, including an event at Brands Hatch in the UK.

As if victory last time out at Oschersleben and a handy championship lead were on their own not enough, Timo Scheider has gone another step towards stamping his authority firmly on the DTM in 2008 - by storming to his third successive pole position on the series' first foreign trip of the campaig

Three years after making his racing comeback, double Formula 1 World Champion Mika Hakkinen has confirmed his retirement from professional motor racing.

There was a dramatic end to the penultimate DTM race of the season at Barcelona when Audi sensationally withdrew all of its cars with only a few laps of the race remaining.

This year's title race may not have been resolved just yet, but the DTM is already making plans for 2008 after revealing their calendar for next season with only a few minor changes to it

Vanina Ickx will not start the seventh round of the DTM after rolling her Audi A4 in qualifying at Zandvoort, her mechanics being unable to repair her car in time.

Mika Hakkinen timed his pit stop to perfection on the way to a second DTM win of the season on the series' first visit to Mugello in eleven years, a victory that makes up for the disappointment of missing a podium at the Norisring under opposite circumstances.

The DMSB has decided to award half-points to the top eight drivers following the third round of the DTM at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz following a controversial race marred by problems with the timing of the safety car.

Mika Hakkinen scored only the second victory of his DTM career with a resounding lights-to-flag victory in the third round of the championship at the EuroSpeedway, Lausitz, in a race otherwise determined by a pair of messy safety car periods.

Formula 1 test-driver Markus Winkelhock will return to the DTM at the Eurospeedway Lausitz this weekend, as Tom Kristensen continues to recover from the injuries he sustained in the season-opener at Hockenheim.

Audi star Tom Kristensen, one of two drivers hospitalised following last weekend's heavy first lap shunt in the opening DTM race of the season at Hockenheim, has been allowed to return home to his family and is happily now well on the road to recovery.

DTM debutant Alex Premat was the only serious human casualty of the opening lap accident that marred the first round of this year's DTM series, as Tom Kristensen, Adam Carroll and Susie Stoddart all escaped injury in the four-car pile-up.

In a move that comes as no surprise after the final round of the DTM season at Hockenheim, Audi has announced that it is parting company with driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen.

Bernd Schneider did everything but clinch the 2006 DTM title at Barcelona last weekend, with a close second place while his key rival for the crown, Audi's Tom Kristensen, finished outside the points.

Former F1 champion Mika Hakkinen has been named as an ambassador to DaimlerChrysler's worldwide road safety initiative MobileKids.

Susie Stoddart was left bruised after a collision involving herself and Daniel La Rosa in the fifth round of the DTM championship at the Norisring put the young Scot in hospital.

After Mika Hakkinen and Bruno Spengler had topped the first two days of the DTM's marathon pre-season test at Vallelunga, multiple champion Bernd Schneider continued Mercedes' strong run by repeating the feat on day three.

Weeks after admitting that it had hopes of keeping the former F1 pilot in the series, Audi has finally confirmed that Heinz-Harald Frentzen had signed to bolster its DTM squad.