DTM News

Marcel Fassler has taken his first ever DTM pole position today at Oscherleben. Fassler just beat Laurent Aiello in the 2001 Abt Sportlines Audi TT-R.

Belgian David Saelens will join Keke Rosberg's team in the DTM as replacement for Pedro Lamy in the Service 24 h AMG Mercedes from round three at Oschersleben this weekend.

Pedro Lamy told his team management that he wants to leave the Service 24h AMG Mercedes team, with just two rounds of the 2001 DTM series completed.

The oft-maligned Audi TT-R scored its first DTM pole position since the Championship was re-launched, in the hands of Frenchman Laurent Aiello on Saturday at the Nurburgring circuit under the imposing shadow of the Eiffel Mountains.

What was regarded as a promising DTM career has turned into rather a short one for Germany's Steffen Schulz.

Former BTCC champion Alain Menu will move over to the DTM for 2001, but with Opel not Mercedes after a test with the Three-Pointed Star did not work out as planned.

Even when BMW finally unveiled the badly kept secret about the new V8 engine in its BMW M3 GT3 car at the Sebring 12 Hours, speculation about the Munich marques? future has not stopped.

Not long after Opel finally sold one of it?s 2000 cars to a privateer, ambitious team owner and driver rolled the car at his first test at Hockenheim.

Former German Formula Three Champion Christijan Albers has won the race for the last Mercedes seat, and will join Thomas Jaeger at the Persson team.

After the first BMW M5 lookalike for the new German touring car series V8STAR had been turned down by the Munich marque, BMW has now agreed to allow modified bodywork to appear.

Johnny Herbert will not be racing in the German Touring Car championship this year according to sources close to the Englishman.

Opel has signed three new DTM drivers who are not expected deliver in 2001 - but is the Russelsheim manufacturer collecting their sponsorship money for a big double deal?

Louis Krages, better known in racing circles as 'John Winter', has committed suicide in his Atlanta home.

After being fired by Opel, Uwe Alzen reacted swiftly - and joined arch-rivals Mercedes, signing up with its best team HWA to replace veteran Klaus Ludwig.

Germany?s new V8STAR series has received some unexpected help from Porsche, as team owner Harald Grohs felt so let down by the Stuttgart racing department that he became the first customer to buy two V8STAR machines.

A new NASCAR-like championship for privateers is all set to shake the German racing scene.