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Moto GP champ Nicky Hayden's the fastest Kentuckian on two wheels, but put him in the racing bucket of a four-wheeled Mercedes DTM race car and he's not even the fastest guy named Nicky. Granted, it's a powerful car on a wet track with cold tires, but champs don't get to make excuses. More »
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This touring Benz isn't a BOSS, but it is Boss. Hugo Boss. AMG was so successful campaigning this car in DTM, Mercedes purchased the tuner outright. [via PhotoFinish] More »
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Audi used the Shanghai DTM race to debut a TT GT4 turnkey racer planned for production in 2012, though inexplicably called a concept. The car will feature a racing body, roll cage, fuel cell, and 340 hp TFSI engine. More »
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European touring car racing series DTM must be chuffed about it's pairing with NASCAR races in 2013. Proof? This NASCAR-worthy crash by Audi driver Alexandre Premat this weekend, which he escaped unharmed. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5678320&view=rss&microfeed=true It's official, DTM-style touring car racing's coming to the United States in 2012 via NASCAR/GRAND-AM. More »
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German Touring Car (DTM) will see the return of BMW in 2012 after an 18-year absence. There's a good render of it here, but until we get the real thing here's a reminder of why BMW in DTM is RAD. More »
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Here is six minutes of glorious Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, back from the days when it was nothing but an epic battle between BMW E30 M3’s and Mercedes–Benz 190 E 2.3-16’s. More »
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Scottish DTM driver/knockout Susie Stoddart took seventh at Lausitzring this weekend, earning her first points in the German touring car series. She also got sideways in this 525 HP Mercedes E63 AMG Wagon. So. Much. Hotness. [via @Cbaccus] More »
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After an 18-year absence, BMW's entering factory-back cars in the 2012 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters following an Eastern Front-sized retreat from Formula 1. Those unfamiliar with DTM watch this madness and cry Spaten-flavored tears of joy. [Spiegel] More »
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Sixteen-valve fours, crashing, and some of the best racing ever seen. It's like NASCAR, if NASCAR were high on schnitzel and still had soul. We've watched a lot of DTM videos. This is one of the best. More »
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Recently, racing has been an easier path for women attempting to make a name for themselves professionally than, say, football. With the exception of rallying, this access has come with an expectation that your sexuality will be part of your outward racing persona, something that Richard Petty never had to endure. If you don't believe us, just look at Danica Patrick. The double-standard probably works more to the advantage of a female driver as they have access to a pool of advertising dollars that their male counterparts can't get at, as well as built-in media attention. Of course, this also means that less attractive female drivers are at a serious disadvantage. For Scotland's Susie Stoddart, who currently races in DTM, this isn't much of a problem.
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An odd press release missive was fired from Ingolstadt this past weekend. Apparently, Audi's top brass were nonplussed by Mercedes' drivers actions during the recent DTM race at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. In light of two that kaboshed two Audi A4 race cars, Audi Motorsport Director Wolfgang Ullrich withdrew the company's seven remaining A4s from competition in protest. Ullrich says the Merc drivers — including two-time Formula World Champion Mika Hakkinen and Gary Paffett — were using wet-team tactics to take Audis out of the competition. Mercedes-Benz Motorsport Director Norbert Haug says there was no team order to sweep Audi's leg. Points-losing overreaction, or proper reaction to a hit squad. You make the call. [UPDATE: Hakkinen and La Rosa fined for causing "avoidable collisions."] [Motive] More »
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Mercedes' AMG expansion inevitably will involve making its highfalutin' DTM-series hardware more available to the world's motoring rich. Building 100 of the supercars at a clip can't possibly satisfy demand for the DTM cars' particular blend of reckless abandon and German refinement. Thus, the next CLK DTM will reportedly come in higher quantity, with a new, less conspicuous design (no, officer, I was not going 225 mph. You must have me confused with someone else). Horsepower will match the first, limited edition CLK DTM, at around 600, with hints from management of a turbocharger tacked on the 6.3-liter V8 for an extra measure of insanity. More »
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Imagine slapping the starting line of an auto race onto New York's Fifth Avenue, right in front of Bergdorf Goodman, or on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, or Tokyo's Ginza. Consider the noise, the confusion, the mannequins running for cover amid a hail of broken plate-glass windows, the Fendi bags left for dead. Ok, so it's not a running of the bulls, it's just a DTM race. But will Dusseldorf ever be the same? More »
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We returned from the Frankfurt auto show today, having walked a total of 75,000 miles between carmakers' salons, eaten close to 16 cups of The Official Beef Vegetable Soup of the International Motoring Press, drunk more Bitburgs than we're proud of, and risen at pre-dawn to catch a flight back to Newe Yorke, we turn to eMercedesBenz for word on Benz's new, DTM Cabrio burner. Yes, a cabrio upstaged the company's new 6.3-liter V8-powered M63 and R63 SUVs. More »
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The Thomases, Detleffs and Haralds at ITR the German-based sanctioning body that governs the DTM Touring Car Championship are attempting to control costs by demanding that cars in the series conform last year's standards for components such as aerodynamic aids and safety cells. Limiting the number of new tires per race to 7 (down from 9), '06 cars' minimum weight will be up 15kg to 1,050, although returning '05 models will continue at the 1,035kg mark. A few pit crewmen will be hitting the unemployment lines, as teams are now being held to seven pit-row mechanics, giving the dismissed plenty of time to cry in their Paulaner with soon-to-be-former DCX boss J rgen Schrempp in a backwater hof brau somewhere south of W rzburg. More »
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