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Old German Touring Cars Make Everything Better

Sam Smith — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:30:00 EST

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.

(Obligatory fanboy plug: Long live the E30 M3, long live the Cossie-headed Mercedes, long live the Cosworth Fords, and mad props to Paul "Nockenwelle" Rosche, the coolest engineer this side of a currywurst.)

2009 Audi R8 Becomes Official DTM Safety Car

Wes Siler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EDT

[via MotorAuthority]

Great Scot! Susie Stoddart Is Scotland's Favorite Racing Export

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EDT

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.

Though she may not be the next Miss Universe, Ms. Stoddart is certainly able to pull of something less than a full track suit (as these shots from her website demonstrate). She's also a capable young driver, having worked her way up through karting, Formula Renault, Formula 3 and now DTM. For the 2007 series she raced a 2005-spec Mercedes C-Class Coupe, finishing in all but two races. Oh, and according to Wikipedia she's single and only four months our elder. [SusieStoddart.com, Wikipedia]

Sweep the Leg! Mercedes DTM Drivers Targeted Audi Racers, Audi Says

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:30:51 EDT

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]

Spy Photos: Mercedes CLK DTM

Mike Spinelli — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:08:59 EDT

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.

SPY PHOTOS: Mercedes CLK DTM Facelift [World Car Fans]

Related:
Frankfurt Premiere: Mercedes DTM Cabrio [internal]

Pole Position

Mike Spinelli — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:30:55 EST

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?

Audi: DTM will have an unusual start! [The German Car Blog]

Frankfurt Premiere: Mercedes DTM Cabrio

Mike Spinelli — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:04:53 EDT

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.

Mercedes Introduces World's Fastest Open-Top Four-Seater [eMercedesBenz]

Related:
More AMG news [internal]

DTM Attempting to Lower Costs for '06 Season

Davey G. Johnson — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:46:09 EDT

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.

DTM rule changes for 2006 have been adopted [DTM]