2014 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisters (DTM)

[unitedstomper]

christian vietoris 2014 livery

I like it it reminds me of the clk origional teile for the 2000/2003 era

 

[nissman]

Audi reveals champion Mike Rockenfeller’s livery.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Rockys car looks pretty good, I was never much if a fan of the yellow/green but.this looks pretty good.. is there a metallic pigment in the paint?

 

[TheLuigi755]

13th July - Moscow Raceway (Russia)

 

[Com Fox]

I've only started watching DTM after when I found out about there Youtube channel.

Can't wait for this season to start and as always I'll be rooting behind Mercedes.

 

[MatskiMonk]

3 More liveries from BMW.

 

[Bo]

Mmmm, Crowne Plaza livery looks much better than the white one.

 

[Com Fox]

I can't wait to see the M4s on the track.

 

[Furinkazen]

Some sad news for the DTM fraternity:
http://www.motorsport.com/dtm/news/itr-chairman-dr-thomas-betzler-passes-away/

 

[MatskiMonk]

Some sad news for the DTM fraternity:
http://www.motorsport.com/dtm/news/itr-chairman-dr-thomas-betzler-passes-away/

That is sad, he wasn't that old. Though he didn't have a big amount of success whilst driving for BMW-Alpina, he drove on the classic european tracks, in the big-winged, wide bodied era of DRM, ETCC, in BMW 2002's and 3.0CSL batmobiles, against legends or sportscar racing, and that's cool.

My sympathies to his family.

 

[Com Fox]

R.I.P

 

[MatskiMonk]

Wrong Thread.

 

[joetruckv8]

Watching tread now, but we got some time to wait. Checked schedule no Brands Hatch this year. I would be more upset about that if they were actually running the GP circuit.

 

[MatskiMonk]

Maxime Martin in the Samsung M4 DTM

Antonio Felix da Costa in the Red Bull M4

Marco Wittmann in the ICE watch M4 again.

Augusto Farfus remains in the Castrol Edge liveried car...

 

[GOTMAXPOWER]

More test photo's in here (Including Petrov's Petronas Mercedes): http://www.motorsport.com/dtm/photos/main-gallery/?r=7923

 

[Furinkazen]

Did Red Bull leave Ekstrom though?

 

[MatskiMonk]

Did Red Bull leave Ekstrom though?

Appears Ekky still has a Red Bull Audi...

 

[Furinkazen]

Edit wrong thread

 

[joetruckv8]

Wow!, still 1 month to go. I would like to see a series were DTM & Super GT go at it head 2 head and longer than the 180km DTM distance. Super GT distance may be too long tho, lol' 👍

 

[MatskiMonk]

So Mercedes driver pairings...

Original-Teile/AMG Mercedes (HWA)
Christian Vietoris / Paul Di Resta

EURONICS/GRIP Mercedes AMG (HWA)
Gary Paffett / Robert Wickens

Petronas /AMG Mercedes (Mücke)
Daniel Juncadella / Vitaly Petrov

Gooix Mercedes AMG (HWA)
Pascal Wehrlein

http://www.touringcartimes.com/2014/04/08/mercedes-confirms-2014-dtm-team-setup/

 

[AlvaroF]

I've been following DTM here and there since 2010. Last year I watched most of the races because Filipe Albuquerque was in Audi line-up. This year I'll be keeping up with every single race, I've been growing to be a big fan of DTM.

I like the driver line-ups from BMW and Mercedes. I reckon a good year.
I also know what driver I will support this year: António Félix da Costa. He's a really decent driver and made a marvelous season in GP3 and Formula 3.5, whereas last year he had lots of problems with Arden Catheram finishing 3rd in Formula 3.5. He also made lots of testing for Red Bull F1 Team and was one of the most likely to go to Toro Rosso or even Red Bull since he's part of Red Bull Junior program. I'm really looking foward for his season.

 

[nissman]

Testing times at Hockenheimring.

 

[pyrates]

Testing times at Hockenheimring.

You just have to love how close DTM always is.

 

[AlvaroF]

The Audi are strong!

 

[joetruckv8]

The Audi are strong!

That sucks for BMW then since they spend most of their money in this series now,.

 

[nissman]

That sucks for BMW then since they spend most of their money in this series now,.

You might be overreacting there mate judging by second day of testing. BMW looks to be very strong with Wittman this season and I'm quite sure Farfus will be up there together with Rocky.

 

[MatskiMonk]

I wouldn't put too much faith in testing times.

But, these were the day 1 times

Testing times, Monday, 14th April – day one completed:
1st Marco Wittmann (DEU) BMW M4 DTM 1:33.084 minutes
2nd Mattias Ekström (SWE) Audi RS5 DTM 1:33.316
3rd Timo Scheider (DEU) Audi RS5 DTM 1:33.590
4th Edoardo Mortara (ITA) Audi RS5 DTM 1:33.828
5th Nico Müller (CHE) Audi RS 5 DTM 1:33.944
6th Joey Hand (USA) BMW M4 DTM 1:34.061
7th Daniel Juncadella (ESP) Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 1:34.195
8th Timo Glock (DEU) BMW M4 DTM 1:34.40
9th Bruno Spengler (CAN) BMW M4 DTM 1:34.60
10th Paul Di Resta (GBR) DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 1:34.61
11th Christian Vietoris (DEU) DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé 1:35.47

 

[joetruckv8]

I don

You might be overreacting there mate judging by second day of testing. BMW looks to be very strong with Wittman this season and I'm quite sure Farfus will be up there together with Rocky.

I don't think its was an overreaction on my part just a comment to a reply about Audi's pace at the moment. I dont usually overreact and I've been watching racing 20 years now and am well aware of test times vs actual race times,

 

[AlvaroF]

I overreacted first. I am hoping for a great season from BMW and seeing a fair bit of Audis at the top it's not a good sight. But at least BMW are catching up. Testing is unpredictable, so are DTM races.

 

[MatskiMonk]

The Audi's are looking strong, but really in DTM it doesn't matter so much... it wasn't outright pace, or even the number of wins that won Rocky the title last year, it was consistency and avoiding bad luck.

From BMW's perspective though, it's interesting that it's Wittmann again that is faster or fastest, as he was last year in testing. He obviously has skill when it comes to developmental hot-lapping, which is interesting given that prior to that he was BMW's DTM test driver.

As last year, I'll be supporting BMW, and I'm hoping that both Farfus and Hand do well. I'm also hoping to get to the Norisring to catch a race.