PressClub Global · Article.
2014 DTM – Media Information.
Tue Apr 29 10:58:05 CEST 2014 Press Kit
The new DTM season starts in Hockenheim (DE) this weekend for BMW Motorsport. While the eight drivers must wait a little longer before getting on track for the first time, media representatives can already look forward to the first race of the year: with the BMW Motorsport media guide for the 2014 DTM season.
Press Contact.
Ingo Lehbrink
BMW Group
Tel: +49-89-382-76003
Fax: +49-89-382-28567
send an e-mail
Author.
Ingo Lehbrink
BMW Group
This article in other PressClubs
Changes are afoot for BMW Motorsport in the 2014 DTM season. Having claimed a total of 51 race wins over the course of eight seasons in the popular touring car series, the BMW M3 will be absent from the starting grid this time around. BMW had already won two titles with this model in 1987 and 1989, and the BMW M3 DTM added to the success story when the manufacturer returned to the DTM: Bruno Spengler won the Drivers’ Championship in 2012, while the team and manufacturer titles also went to BMW, who successfully defended the title in the Manufacturers’ Championship in 2013.
It is now the turn of the BMW M4 DTM to take the place of its iconic and successful predecessor. The development team in Munich began working hard on the 2014 car well before the BMW M3 bid farewell at the end of last season. The attention to detail of the engineers is obvious at first glance – from the elongated bonnet with its steeply sloping nose and the aerodynamically optimised wing mirrors to the BMW M4 characteristic roof indentation.
The eight new cars will be run by the four BMW Teams RBM, Schnitzer, MTEK and RMG in 2014. When it comes to the drivers, BMW Motorsport is once again putting its faith in Augusto Farfus, Joey Hand, Bruno Spengler, Martin Tomczyk, Timo Glock and Marco Wittmann. Two drivers are making their DTM debuts: Maxime Martin has been promoted from test and development driver to a regular seat. A new addition to the BMW Motorsport family is António Félix da Costa.
The season consists of ten races. The DTM will make six appearances in Germany – at the season-opener and finale in Hockenheim, in Oschersleben, at the Norisring, at the Nürburgring and at the Lausitzring. Four races will take place outside of Germany: in Budapest, Moscow, Spielberg and Guangzhou.
This DTM Media Information is available for pdf download in two different layouts.