2015 DTM : Molina celebrates first DTM victory

2015 DTM Nürburgring Race 2 winner : 

Miguel Molina (ESP) #17 - Teufel Audi RS 5 DTM - Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline

Fans at the Nürburgring, where 69,000 spectators attended the event over the weekend, were treated to exceptionally good touring car racing: with entertaining position fights and closely-fought door-to-door duels, there were entertaining battles for the best positions and valuable points for the drivers’ standings in the 16th DTM race of the season. Miguel Molina only had little to do with all that: with a faultless drive, the Audi driver had his name written on the winners’ list at the Nürburgring and also scored his first major achievement in his 67th DTM race. Having started from pole position, the Spaniard scored a dominant and undisputed win in the 43 laps long DTM race on Sunday. “I have been waiting for a long time for my maiden win and now, we finally made it. Today is my day,” the jubilant winner said after the finish. Mercedes-Benz driver Paul Di Resta finished second in the Eifel, 7.5 seconds down. For the 2010 DTM champion, this was his best result of the season so far. BMW’s Bruno Spengler rounded out the Nürburgring podium by finishing third.

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2015 DTM : Rookie driver Tom Blomqvist takes his first DTM race win

2015 DTM - Oschersleben Race2 winner : 

Tom Blomqvist - #31 BMW Team RBM - BMW M4 DTM

Young DTM drivers made their mark on The DTM race at Oschersleben on Sunday, first and foremost BMW driver Tom Blomqvist. The 21-year-old Brit pulled clear from his opponents and scored his maiden DTM victory in his first season in the series. The manner in which he drove victory home was more than impressive. On nearly every lap, Blomqvist was faster than the opposition and went on to cross the finish line with a margin of almost eight seconds from team-mate Augusto Farfus. “That was the longest race of my life. I was out there leading the race for such a long time, I was really yearning for the finish,” the DTM rookie said after his first great success. “Simply unbelievable that I was able to win here.” All in all, the second race in the Magdeburger Börde had some similarities with the race on Saturday.

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Mercedes-AMG DTM Team present 2016 race car

2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 DTM

• Looking ahead to the 2016 season: How the new DTM car fielded by the Mercedes-AMG DTM Team will look
• Inspired by the DTM: AMG launch Edition 1 Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupé
• Five questions to Head of Mercedes-AMG DTM Ulrich Fritz
• Overview: How Mercedes-Benz DTM vehicles have evolved
• Ulrich Fritz: “Our aim with this vehicle is, of course, to continue the Mercedes-Benz success story in the DTM.”

The 2015 DTM season reaches its climax in September. But even before the final three race weekends of the year at Oschersleben, the Nürburgring and Hockenheim, the Mercedes-AMG DTM Team are providing an insight into what lies ahead for the race series, revealing the new car that they will enter for the 2016 campaign.

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2015 DTM - MOSCOW : Rockenfeller wins – Ekström claims back points’ lead

Mike Rockenfeller, #99 Audi Sport Team Phoenix - Audi RS5 DTM 

There is no doubt that he can rightfully refer to himself as ‘Moscow expert’. Two years after his victory in the first-ever DTM race at Moscow Raceway, Mike Rockenfeller had reason to celebrate in Russia once again. In a turbulent race, the Audi driver steered clear of every incident on the track, made maximum use of his pole position and scored a dominant lights-to-flag victory. “I had the car I need to win. In spite of the amount of success ballast, it was simply super-fast,” a jubilant Rockenfeller said. So fast, that even Bruno Spengler, with the considerably lighter BMW, wasn’t able to keep up. After a fierce battle with the drivers behind him, the Canadian crossed the finish line in second place, some four seconds down on Rockenfeller. The final slot on the podium went to a buoyant Mattias Ekström, who once again showed his great skills and claimed back the lead in the drivers’ standings from Pascal Wehrlein. The Mercedes-Benz driver was involved in one of two entertaining battling groups that made their mark on the race.

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Mercedes-AMG DTM Team present first outlines of 2016 race car

2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 Coupé DTM - Sketch

• Looking ahead to the 2016 season: How the new DTM car fielded by the Mercedes-AMG DTM Team will look
• Ulrich Fritz: “Our aim with this vehicle is, of course, to continue the Mercedes-Benz success story in the DTM.”

The 2015 DTM season reaches its climax in September. But even before the final race weekends of the year, the Mercedes-AMG DTM Team are providing an insight into what lies ahead for the race series, revealing the first designs of the car that they will enter for the 2016 campaign.

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2014 DTM : Mattias Ekström flies to victory in the dunes

2014 DTM - Zandvoort winner : Mattias Ekström -Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline - Audi RS 5 DTM

Swede Mattias Ekström was victorious in the ninth season round of the DTM at Zandvoort in The Netherlands and thus secured the first victory for Audi this season. In a thrilling closing stage of the race, the 36-year-old worked his way up through the field in an impressive way and claimed the lead. The two times’ champion finished ahead of the newly-crowned champion Marco Wittmann and Martin Tomczyk (both BMW), who were second and third respectively. “In the DTM, racing is always extremely hard and today was no exception. After all the bad luck of the past months, now, things were running perfectly for us at last. I enjoyed every lap of this race,” said a delighted Ekström after scoring his fourth DTM career win at Zandvoort.

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2014 DTM : Wehrlein wins – Wittmann is champion

2014 DTM - Lausitzring winner : #25 Pascal Wehrlein 

(D, gooix Mercedes AMG, DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé)

KLETTWITZ : September 14, 2014 – The ‘young guns’ are firmly in control of the DTM: while 19-year-old Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes-Benz) celebrated his maiden race win at the Lausitzring, BMW driver Marco Wittmann crowned himself with an early title win in the most popular international touring car series. “This is sensational, simply unbelievable. It was a difficult race, I had to keep myself out of all the battles. In the end, that was the key to winning the title. I first have to deal with all the emotions,” a visibly moved Wittmann commented. For the 24-year-old, sixth place in the race with his BMW M4 DTM was enough for an early decision in the battle for the title after eight of ten season rounds. In total, 58,000 fans attended the race weekend in the Lausitz region.

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2014 DTM : Marco Wittmann extends points’ lead with third season win

2014 DTM - SPIELBERG winner : Marco Wittmann, BMW Team RMG - BMW M4 DTM

SPIELBERG, Austria : August 3, 2014 - BMW driver Marco Wittmann emerged as the winner from an action-packed DTM race at Red Bull Ring. With his BMW M4 DTM, the 24-year-old won the sixth season round from his fellow BMW driver Augusto Farfus and Timo Glock. Martin Tomczyk completed the success for BMW by finishing fourth. “I had a very bad start, which made the early stage of the race not particularly easy for me. I had to stay cool and I saved my tyres. There was plenty of action in front of me, but I didn’t see to much of it. I was just really lucky,” a satisfied Wittmann said. In total, 47,500 fans attended the race weekend in Austria.

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Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti DTM stars on the Zandvoort circuit

1993 Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti DTM @ Alfa Romeo 155 V6 Ti DTM

• "Spettacolo Sportivo", the largest gathering of Alfa Romeo cars organised in Europe, will be held 23 and 24 August in Zandvoort (Netherlands)
• Star of the event will be the 155 V6 Ti from the Alfa Romeo Historic Collection, winner in the DTM Championship in 1993 with the drivers Alessandro Nannini and Nicola Larini, the latter also the first in the Drivers Championship with no fewer than 10 wins out of 20 races
• Two rare examples of the Giulietta Spider - an 'America prototype' and a 'Bertone' - that pay homage to the iconic model that will be celebrating its 60th anniversary this year will also be present
• To confirm the common thread that binds historic cars and models currently in production, the captivating and multi-award-winning Alfa Romeo 4C will also be taking part in the event

The event "Spettacolo Sportivo", the largest gathering of Alfa Romeo cars organised in Europe, will take place on 23 and 24 August in the Netherlands. In keeping with tradition, the event is being organised by the Dutch club of the SCARB (Stichting Club Alfa Romeo Bezitters), and will be hosted at the motoring circuit of Zandvoort, which is located in the vicinity of the small town by the same name on the Dutch coast of the North Sea.

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2014 DTM : Maiden DTM victory for Marco Wittmann and the BMW M4 DTM

2014 DTM - R1 Hockenheim winner : No.23 Marco Wittmann - BMW Team RMG - BMW M4 DTM

HOCKENHEIM : With the BMW M4 DTM, Marco Wittmann wins the DTM season opener at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg, scoring his maiden DTM victory. In a thrilling race with many overtaking manoeuvres, the 24-year old eventually won by a margin of 12.869 seconds from Mattias Ekström and Adrien Tambay (both Audi), the latter having started from pole position. In eleventh place, Pascal Wehrlein was the fastest Mercedes-Benz driver in the Hockenheim season opener. A full press release with quotes from the successful drivers will follow shortly.

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2013 DTM : ROBERT WICKENS WINS NÜRBURGRING DTM

2013 DTM Nürburgring Champion : Robert Wickens, #10 STIHL Mercedes AMG, 

STIHL Mercedes AMG C-Coupé

NÜRBURG : August 18, 2013 - For the first time in his DTM career, Robert Wickens (Mercedes-Benz) climbed onto the top step of the winner's podium: in the seventh round of the 2013 DTM season, the Canadian scored his maiden victory in the most popular international touring car series. After 47 laps at the 3.629 kilometres long circuit in the Eifel, he crossed the finish line in first place. Augusto Farfus (BMW), who had started from pole position, finished second at the Nürburgring, 2.158 seconds down on Wickens.

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2013 DTM : MIKE ROCKENFELLER WINS SUCCESSFUL DTM PREMIERE IN RUSSIA

2013 DTM - Moscow Raceway Champion : Mike Rockenfeller (DEU) : #19 Audi Sport Team Phoenix : Schaeffler Audi RS 5 DTM

With his second victory of the season, Rockenfeller extended his championship lead from defending champion Bruno Spengler (BMW), who remained without points for the first time this year after his 19th place finish. Now, 29-year old Rockenfeller has 94 points, 27 more than Spengler (67). Gary Paffett (57) is third. “When you want to become champion, you have to score many points. That is what we did today. At Norisring, I was too slow, but today, everything was spot-on. A weekend couldn’t be better. First pole, then the race win,” ‘Rocky’ said about the third victory of his DTM
career.

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2013 DTM : MATTIAS EKSTRÖM LOSES NORISRING VICTORY

2013 DTM - Norisring Champion : # 10 Robert Wickens (CAN) - STIHL Mercedes AMG - 

STIHL Mercedes AMG C-Coupé

Audi driver Mattias Ekström has lost his victory in the fifth DTM round at the Norisring. After the Swede illegitimately had water poured into the pockets of his race suit in parc fermé in Nuremberg on his 35th birthday, he was excluded from the race by the stewards because of an infringement of the parc fermé rules. As a result, victory went to Mercedes-Benz driver Robert Wickens from Canada, who scored his maiden DTM race win and brought the brand from Stuttgart its eleventh consecutive success at the Norisring.

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2013 DTM : PAFFETT CLAIMS FIRST SEASON WIN FOR MERCEDES-BENZ AT LAUSITZRING

2013 DTM - Lausitzring Champion : Gary Paffett - #3 EURONICS Mercedes AMG - 

EURONICS Mercedes AMG C-Coupé

Great joy for Gary Paffett and Mercedes-Benz: in the fourth round of the 2013 season at Lausitzring, the Brit crossed the finish line after 52 laps as the winner with his DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé. Having started from second place, he already took the lead at the start and defended his position until the finish. Mike Rockenfeller (Audi) finished second. Christian Vietoris (Mercedes-Benz) rounded out the podium at Lausitz in third place. Bruno Spengler was the best-placed BMW driver in seventh position. In the drivers’ standings after four rounds, Spengler and Rockenfeller are jointly in the lead with 59 points each. Behind them, Gary Paffett is third with 47 points after his 20th DTM career win.

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AUDI RS 5 DTM READY TO RACE AT HOCKENHEIM

2013 Audi RS5 DTM

• Newcomer Jamie Green celebrates his Audi debut at season opener
• DRS, option tires and tight schedule: new rules add thrill
• Iron Man 3: spectacular graphics on the RS 5 DTM of Adrien Tambay

With a seasoned driver squad whose combined tally reflects a total of 478 races, 34 victories and four titles plus an Audi RS 5 DTM that has been optimized in many details, Audi is entering the 2013 DTM season on May 5. Technical innovations such as the use of option tires and a rear wing that can be adjusted by the driver on track make for an additional thrill this year.

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WORLD PREMIERE : AUDI RS 5 DTM

World Premiere : 2013 AUDI RS 5 DTM

•     Audi Sport presents race touring car for the 2013 DTM season
•     Close links to the sportiest Audi production models
•     Leicestershire's Jamie Green new team-mate of Mattias Ekström

At the International Motor Show in Geneva, Wolfgang Dürheimer, Member of the Board for Technical Development of AUDI AG, and Head of Audi Motorsport Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich on Tuesday afternoon presented the racecar for the DTM 2013 – the Audi RS 5 DTM. The driver line-up for the new DTM season is also fixed.

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WORLD PREMIERE ON RED SQUARE : AUDI A5 DTM IN MOSCOW

2013 AUDI A5 DTM

•     Audi in the heart of the Russian capital before DTM debut
•     Mattias Ekström and Edoardo Mortara thrill fans
•     Deliveries in 2012 up by 44.1 percent: Russia an important market for the Four Rings

INGOLSTADT/MOSCOW : February 7, 2013 – On August 4, the DTM will be entering new territory to contest a race in Russia for the first time in its near 30-year history. Audi is the only brand to have visited Moscow half a year before the DTM round: Mattias Ekström and Edoardo Mortara today presented themselves together with an Audi A5 DTM to a large number of fans and journalists.

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BREAKING NEWS : Robert Kubica to test Mercedes-Benz DTM car in Valencia

Robert Kubica - Photo : yallaf1.com

• First test drive for Robert Kubica in the DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 
• Return to circuit racing at Valencia’s Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Mercedes DTM car

On January 24, ex-Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica (Poland, 28) undertakes his first tests in a DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia. During the day’s testing, Kubica aims to see how he fares in the cockpit after his long break due to injury.

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EURONICS TO SPONSOR MERCEDES-BENZ DTM CAR IN 2013 SEASON

DTM, Mercedes-Benz, EURONICS, EURONICS Mercedes AMG C-Coupé

• EURONICS, one of the leading retail cooperatives in the German consumer electronics market, becomes the latest sponsorship partner of Mercedes-Benz in the DTM
• The EURONICS Mercedes AMG C-Coupé will be lining up on the grid for the first time in the DTM season opener at Hockenheim

STUTTGART : January 22, 2013 - The announcement that the retail cooperative has entered into a sponsorship deal with Mercedes-Benz for the DTM was made at the press briefing on the group’s annual results held on 22nd January 2013 in Stuttgart. From the 2013 DTM season onwards, the EURONICS Mercedes AMG C-Coupé will ensure high visibility for the EURONICS brand in the world’s most popular touring car series. The new DTM season starts on 5th May at its traditional opening venue, Hockenheim.

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2012 DTM : Paffett wins home race at Brands Hatch

2012 DTM R.3 Brands Hatch winner : Gary Paffett (GBR) #11-THOMAS SABO Mercedes AMG C-Coupé

Fawkham. At the moment, he is the man to beat in the DTM: with his DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé, Briton Gary Paffett dominantly won the third round of the year at Brands Hatch (GB). At this season’s first round of the most popular international touring car series outside of Germany, the 31-year old scored a lights-to-flag win in his home race. “This was a great race, everything was perfect. Although my start wasn’t that good, I remained in front and was able to bring victory home without any problems. It would be great when things go on like this”, said Paffett, who already won the season opener at Hockenheim and now has 19 DTM race wins to his tally.

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