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The DTM presents exciting racing like no other touring car championship!
DTM represents the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German Touring Car Masters); a car racing series based in Germany with rounds spread across Europe.
From 2000 onwards, the new DTM continued the former Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (German Touring Car Championship) and ITC (International Touring Car Championship)
2013: Mercedes-Benz and the DTM
Mercedes-Benz will enter six DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupés in the DTM this season. The successor to the AMG Mercedes C-Class, the most successful DTM car of all time in the series, celebrated its race debut last year with a one-two victory at the season-opener in Hockenheim.
In the second year of the new Technical Regulations that were so successfully introduced last year, the brand with the three-pointed star is concentrating on a smaller but harder-hitting DTM task force based on the well-experienced DTM teams of HWA and RSC Mücke Motorsport.
This driver line-up is very much in the tradition of bringing on young drivers, which has played such a big role at Mercedes-Benz for many decades. With an average age of 23 years, the Mercedes-Benz driver team is by far and away the youngest of the three top manufacturers represented in this year’s DTM.
The 2013 DTM race calendar
Facts & Figures
DTM represents the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German Touring Car Masters); a car racing series based in Germany with rounds spread across Europe.
From 2000 onwards, the new DTM continued the former Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (German Touring Car Championship) and ITC (International Touring Car Championship)
2013: Mercedes-Benz and the DTM
- Mercedes-Benz with six DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupés for 2013 season, fielded by RSC Mücke Motorsport and HWA
- Mercedes-Benz has youngest DTM squad of all three manufacturers – average age, 23 years
- Mercedes-Benz – 168 victories, ten drivers’, thirteen team and nine manufacturers’ titles – most successful brand in DTM
Mercedes-Benz will enter six DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupés in the DTM this season. The successor to the AMG Mercedes C-Class, the most successful DTM car of all time in the series, celebrated its race debut last year with a one-two victory at the season-opener in Hockenheim.
In the second year of the new Technical Regulations that were so successfully introduced last year, the brand with the three-pointed star is concentrating on a smaller but harder-hitting DTM task force based on the well-experienced DTM teams of HWA and RSC Mücke Motorsport.
This driver line-up is very much in the tradition of bringing on young drivers, which has played such a big role at Mercedes-Benz for many decades. With an average age of 23 years, the Mercedes-Benz driver team is by far and away the youngest of the three top manufacturers represented in this year’s DTM.
The 2013 DTM race calendar
- The 2013 DTM season extends over ten race weekends, all of which count towards the drivers’, constructors’ and team championships.
- Tradition dictates that the campaign both begins and ends at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Württemberg.
- The world’s most popular touring car series makes its debut in Russia this year in a fixture at the Moscow Raceway on the weekend of 3rd/4th August.
- Six of the ten races are to be contested in Germany, with four foreign countries also playing host: the UK, Austria, Russia and the Netherlands.
| Race | Date | Event |
| 1 | 5th May | Hockenheim 1 |
| 2 | 19th May | Brands Hatch (England) |
| 3 | 2nd June | Spielberg (Austria) |
| 4 | 16th June | Lausitzring |
| 5 | 14th July | Norisring, Nuremberg |
| 6 | 4th August | Moscow (Russia) |
| 7 | 18th August | Nürburgring |
| 8 | 15th September | Oschersleben |
| 9 | 29th September | Zandvoort (Netherlands) |
| 10 | 20th October | Hockenheim 2 |
Facts & Figures
- Since 2000, Mercedes-Benz has won 84 of 142 races in the ‘new’ DTM, which corresponds to a win rate of 59%. Since 1988, Mercedes-Benz has won a total of 168 DTM races, nearly half of all the 353 races (winning percentage: 48%)
- In the ‘new’ DTM, a Mercedes-Benz driver has taken pole in almost half of all qualifying sessions – 62 out of 133, equivalent to a success rate of 47%. Since 1988, Mercedes-Benz have claimed 111 pole positions.
- Mercedes-Benz drivers have set the fastest lap in 168 of the 353 races staged since 1988. In the ‘new’ DTM, it was a Mercedes-Benz driver who set the fastest lap in more than half of the 142 races (59%)
| Statistics: Mercedes-Benz in the DTM (Pre 2013 season) | ||
| 2000-2012 („New DTM“) | 1988-2012 | |
| Drivers’ titles | 6 | 10 |
| Team titles | 9 | 13 |
| Constructors’ titles | 5 | 9 |
| Races | 142 | 353 |
| Race starts | 1,263 | 3,374 |
| Wins | 84 | 168 |
| Pole positions | 62 | 111 |
| Fastest laps | 84 | 168 |
| 1-2 qualifying | 36 | 66 |
| 1-2 victories | 48 | 100 |
| Podiums | 226 | 489 |
| Points scoring results | 462 | 1,442 |
| Points | 3,646.5 | 11,984.5 |
| Statistics: All Mercedes-Benz DTM champions | ||
| Year | Champion | Car |
| 1992 | Klaus Ludwig | AMG Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo 2 |
| 1994 | Klaus Ludwig | AMG Mercedes C-Class Class 1 |
| 1995 | Bernd Schneider | AMG Mercedes C-Class Class 1 |
| 1995 | Bernd Schneider (ITC) | AMG Mercedes C-Class Class 1 |
| 2000 | Bernd Schneider | AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM |
| 2001 | Bernd Schneider | AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM |
| 2003 | Bernd Schneider | AMG Mercedes CLK-DTM |
| 2005 | Gary Paffett | AMG Mercedes C-Class |
| 2006 | Bernd Schneider | AMG Mercedes C-Class |
| 2010 | Paul Di Resta | AMG Mercedes C-Class |
