The 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season is the sixteenth season of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, since the series' resumption in 2000. The season started on 2 May at Hockenheim, and ended on 18 October at the same venue, with Mercedes Benz driver Pascal Wehrlein clinching the Drivers' Championship, Mercedes Benz's HWA AG winning the Teams' Championship and BMW taking the Manufacturer's Championship after a total of nine events.
Marco Wittmann entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champion, BMW Team RMG as the defending Teams' Champion and Audi as the defending Manufacturers' Champion.
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.The 2015 season saw the DTM series go back to a two races per weekend format. It was the first time since 2002 that the DTM used the format.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.Entering DTMMaximilian Götz, who won the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series, joined Mercedes-Benz.European Formula 3 front-runners Lucas Auer and Tom Blomqvist joined the series, driving for Mercedes-Benz and BMW respectively.Leaving DTMJoey Hand, who drove for BMW between 2012 and 2014, left the series and joined the United SportsCar Championship.Vitaly Petrov, who drove for Mercedes-Benz in 2014, left the series.Mid-season changesTimo Scheider was excluded from participating in the Moscow Raceway round after pushing out both Robert Wickens and Pascal Wehrlein in the second race of the Red Bull Ring. European Formula 3 front-runner Antonio Giovinazzi replaced him at the Russian venue for Audi Sport Team Phoenix.Starting from Norisring, ITR introduced a system of ballast based on the results obtained in the previous race. The basis weight is 1120 kg, and performance weight ranges from a minimum of 1105 kg to a maximum of 1140 kg
Race calendar and results
The nine event calendar was announced on 3 December 2014.
The round at the Hungaroring – which had been included on the DTM calendar in 1988 and 2014 – was discontinued.Championship standings
Scoring systemPoints were awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:
† — Driver retired, but was classified as they completed 75% of the winner's race distance. 