TOURING (Page 5)

The Schubert BMW driver started 14th, but a masterful pitstop strategy enabled him to take the lead and win the second race of DTM’s Zandvoort weekend.Mirko Bortolotti and Kelvin van der Linde joined him on the podium, with the latter extending his championship lead.As the lights went out for theContinue Reading

Manthey EMA’s Preining fell behind both van de Linde and Feller at one stage, but quickly repassed the Abt Audi duo to claim his first win of the 2024 season and move up to second in the standings.At the start of the race, the reigning champion pulled away cleanly fromContinue Reading

When the Walkinshaw Andretti United’s crew released Mostert from the pitlane after a tyre change, he drove into the path of Tickford’s Thomas Randle, forcing him to hit the brakes.A resulting five-second time penalty left Mostert to try to build a lead over fellow Ford Mustang driver Waters, but aContinue Reading

At a venue which has been something of a bogey circuit for the Walkinshaw Andretti United team in recent years. Mostert topped the times for all of the session in the Ford Mustang, setting a time of 55.0930s to be 0.17s clear of Nick Percat’s Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet.“We’ll seeContinue Reading

Starting this year, the pitlane is effectively closed whenever a FCY or a safety car is deployed in the DTM, with any urgent visit to the pits made during that period not counting towards a driver’s mandatory stop.The purpose of this new regulation was to create a more fair contest,Continue Reading

After already having to alter the programme for this month’s Lausitzring round at the request of TV partner ProSieben, which is also broadcasting the Ice Hockey World Championship, the start of the second Zandvoort race has also been pushed back due to a scheduling conflict with the Le Mans test.WhileContinue Reading

Wittmann was leading Saturday’s opening race of 2024 when his Schubert Motorsport-entered BMW M4 GT3 suddenly began to slow down with four laps to go, before coming to a halt at the start/finish straight.The two-time DTM champion had tactically made his pitstop moments before the Full Course Yellow was deployedContinue Reading

Engstler had been running a steady third behind polesitter Bortolotti and Mercedes rival Luca Stolz in the first part of the race, but an impressive strategy call from Grasser to pull him into the pits just before a Full Course Yellow elevated him to the lead.Engstler’s run to victory wasContinue Reading

Jack Aitken won the opening race of the 2024 DTM at Oschersleben after Marco Wittmann’s BMW stopped on track with mechanical issues with just three minutes to run. SourceContinue Reading