BMW ahead in Hockenheim trials

René Rast was fastest in pre-season testing DTM Hockenheim announcement. The champion of many series made a difference and BMW M4 GT3 #33 of Schubert Motorsport, The German was ahead of his teammates in the joint list Sheldon van der Linde e Marco Wittmann.

The South African and two-time winner of the prestigious Teutonic Championship is hunting ahead of the Turk Ayhancan Güvenleader day-1 and Thomas Preining. A good sign from the two Manthey EMA Porsches, the team to win after what happened last year.

The first kilometers of 2024

The 2024 DTM season officially begins at Hockenheim. BMW e Porsche they start strong, Audi and Lamborghini they chase each other together Mercedes which is known will have four cars on the starting line and not six as happened last year.

We remind you that, as it happened in 2023, the Emil Frey Race will also return Ferrari, time to return Aston Martin next to McLaren. In the first case there will be Dev Gore (AMR Comtoyou Racing #12), Dörr Motorsport McLaren stands in second place with Ben Dörr and Clemens Schmid.

Oschersleben attends DTM 2024

The selection is now at the end of April with the opening round in Oschersleben. As is known, the GT3s will still be the main players in the DTM, a constant presence from 2021 after the end of the ‘Class One’ era.

The 2024 model, after some speculation about possible changes, will be the same as in recent years. Race-1 and the second race of each race weekend will start at 1.30pm, each round will have a special qualifying session in the morning.

Unfortunately there will be no competition in Italy in 2024 either, with Germany events in Austria (Spielberg) and Zandvoort (Holland) confirmed. The program for this final round remains to be defined due to an unfortunate coincidence with the 24 hours of Le Mans.

Luca Pellegrini