DTM News

With the confirmation of the French circuit of Le Mans on the DTM calendar, the full season for the popular German race series is complete.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen has said that he is grateful to have got away without serious injury after crashing out of Sunday's DTM finale at Hockenheim and being airlifted to hospital.

Christian Abt has hit out at ex-F1 ace, Mika Hakkinen following their coming together at the EuroSpeedway on Sunday, round nine in the DTM. Speaking at the finish, Abt, who drives for Audi, reckoned that the Finn had quite simply just got overly 'nervous'.

Audi driver, Tom Kristensen has admitted it is a shame the DTM won't race at Avignon in France next weekend, however on the bright side, a second outing at the EuroSpeedway isn't all bad.

The DTM has announced that it is to switch to a new fuel supplier from the next round of the championship season at the Nurburgring.

Nuremberg has a history of producing spine-tingling moments, and Saturday's charity 'race' at the Norisring proved to be no exception as 15 world championship titles and 184 grand prix wins were put on the line as six champions went head-to-head as a precursor to the DTM weekend.

Allan McNish drove through the pain barrier as the DTM headed to Oschersleben at the weekend to secure his best finish yet in the German touring car series.

Former Toyota F1 driver Allan McNish put the problems of the last two DTM races to one side to secure his first points in the championship with a seventh place at Brno.

Two-times F1 world champion, Mika Hakkinen showed his class at Spa today [Sunday], by taking the win in only his third DTM race. 'The Flying Finn', who started from pole, eventually triumphed by 4.258 seconds.

Opel endured one of its most difficult weekends in recent times in the DTM series as Lausitz as only one of the teams car managed to finish inside the top ten in the second race of the year.

DTM rookie Allan McNish will make a step into the unknown as the championship heads to the EuroSpeedway circuit for the second round of the season next weekend.

After consulting with the three manufacturers involved in the series, DTM organisers have agreed to limit its ballast weights to a maximum of plus or minus 20 kilogrammes.

British marque MG has confirmed that it will be competing in the DTM in 2005 with a 500hp MG ZT.

M?cke Motorsport has confirmed that it will run a single, privately-entered, 2004-spec AMG-Mercedes C-Class in this year's DTM series, with Stefan M?cke at the wheel.

The newly developed Opel Vectra GTS V8 that will be used for the manufacturers final season of DTM competition has completed its first test run at the Vallelunga circuit in Italy.

Contrary to rumours linking him to a switch to the nascent World Touring Car Championship, Laurent Aiello has been confirmed as part of the Opel line-up in next year's DTM.

Despite having seen his sportscar seat with Team Veloqx evaporate, Allan McNish will continue to race for Audi next year - but as part of the defending DTM champion's 'superstar' squad in Germany.

Opel has announced that its focus in motorsport in 2005 will be on the DTM despite the news that they will withdraw from the series at the end of next season.

22-year-old Martin Tomczyk secured pole position in qualifying for the tenth and final championship race of the 2004 DTM season. The German clocked a time of 1m 35.852s in his Audi A4 DTM around the 4.574-kilometre-long Hockenheimring.

The DTM has announced record figures for advance ticket sales for the final round of the 2004 series, with more than two weeks still to go before the meeting at Hockenheim.

The pressure is firmly on Mercedes Benz duo Christijan Albers and Gary Paffett after the eighth round of the DTM saw Audi driver Mattias Ekstrom extend his lead at the top of the standings.

Local hero Jeroen Bleekemolen will graduate to an Opel Vectra GTS V8 for the first time at his home DTM round, which takes place this weekend at Zandvoort on the Dutch coast.

After setting the quickest time in practice and qualifying for round six of the DTM, Mattias Ekstr?m had to settle for second place after super pole saw him beaten to top spot by the Mercedes-Benz of Gary Paffett.

Heinz-Harald Frentzen will stay in the DTM in 2005, after extending his contract with Opel. The announcement was made today by Opel's motorsport director, Volker Strycek, at the Shanghai invitational race in China.