2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season

The 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season will be the sixteenth season of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, since the series' resumption in 2000. The season starts on 2 May at Hockenheim, and ends on 18 October at the same venue, after a total of nine events. Marco Wittmann enters the season as the defending Drivers' Champion, BMW Team RMG as the defending Teams' Champion and Audi as the defending Manufacturers' Champion.

Teams and drivers

• Drivers were assigned permanent numbers for the duration of their DTM careers, with the championship adopting a system similar to the one used in Formula One and MotoGP. The number 1 was the champion's right, with drivers free to choose any number from 2 to 99; the champion's "regular" number was reserved while they were using the number 1.^[1]

Make	Car	Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
BMW	BMW M4 DTM	BMW Team RMG[2]	1	Marco Wittmann[3]	1
			36	Maxime Martin[3]	1
		BMW Team MTEK[2]	7	Bruno Spengler[3]	1
			16	Timo Glock[3]	1
		BMW Team Schnitzer[2]	13	António Félix da Costa[3]	1
			77	Martin Tomczyk[3]	1
		BMW Team RBM[2]	18	Augusto Farfus[3]	1
			31	Tom Blomqvist[4]	1
Mercedes-Benz	DTM AMG Mercedes C-Coupé	ART Grand Prix[5]	2	Gary Paffett[6]	1
			22	Lucas Auer[7]	1
		HWA AG[5]	3	Paul di Resta[8]	1
			6	Robert Wickens[8]	1
			8	Christian Vietoris[8]	1
			94	Pascal Wehrlein[8]	1
		Mücke Motorsport[5]	12	Daniel Juncadella[8]	1
			84	Maximilian Götz[9]	1
Audi	Audi RS5 DTM	Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline[10]	5	Mattias Ekström[10]	1
			17	Miguel Molina[10]	1
			27	Adrien Tambay[10]	1
			48	Edoardo Mortara[10]	1
		Audi Sport Team Phoenix[10]	10	Timo Scheider[10]	1
			99	Mike Rockenfeller[10]	1
		Audi Sport Team Rosberg[10]	51	Nico Müller[10]	1
			53	Jamie Green[10]	1

Team changes

• Single-seater team ART Grand Prix will join the series in 2015, running a Mercedes team of two cars, for Lucas Auer and Gary Paffett.^[8]

Driver changes

Entering DTM

• Maximilian Götz, who won the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series, joined Mercedes-Benz.^[9]
• European Formula 3 front-runners Lucas Auer and Tom Blomqvist joined the series, driving for Mercedes-Benz and BMW respectively.^[4][7]

Leaving DTM

• Joey Hand, who drove for BMW between 2012 and 2014, left the series and joined the United SportsCar Championship.^[3][11]
• Vitaly Petrov, who drove for Mercedes-Benz in 2014, left the series.^[8]

Race calendar

The nine event calendar was announced on 3 December 2014.^[12]

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer
1	R1	Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg	2 May
	R2		3 May
2	R1	EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Brandenburg	30 May
	R2		31 May
3	R1	Norisring, Nuremberg	27 June
	R2		28 June
4	R1	Circuit Park Zandvoort, Noord-Holland	11 July
	R2		12 July
5	R1	Red Bull Ring, Spielberg	1 August
	R2		2 August
6	R1	Moscow Raceway, Volokolamsk	29 August
	R2		30 August
7	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt	12 September
	R2		13 September
8	R1	Nürburgring, Rhineland-Palatinate	26 September
	R2		27 September
9	R1	Hockenheimring, Baden-Württemberg	17 October
	R2		18 October

Calendar changes

• The 2015 season will see the DTM series go back to a two races per weekend format. It will be the first time since 2002 that the DTM will use the format.
• The round at the Hungaroring – which had been included on the DTM calendar in 1988 and 2014 – was discontinued.

References

External links

• The official website of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (English)