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2017 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

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Dates
  
5 May 2017 – 15 Oct 2017

Location
  
Europe

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The 2017 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters is the eighteenth season of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, since the series' resumption in 2000. The season is scheduled to run from 6 May until 15 October over 18 races. Marco Wittmann won his 2nd DTM championship after a total of nine events.

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Audi is set to start the season as the defending Constructors' Champion, having secured their fifth title at the finale Hockenheimring round meanwhile Marco Wittmann is set to start the season as the defending Drivers' Champion, having secured his second title at the same venue last season.

Supplier changes

  • German wheel rim company ATS became official standard control wheel rim supplier from 2017 season onwards as it was announced on March 15, 2016.
  • Hankook Tire extend their DTM tyre supplier role until 2019 as the South Korean tyre company announced on May 6, 2016.

    • Rule changes

  • On September 17, 2016, DTM announced that the field may be reduced from 24 to 18 competitors.
  • For the first time ever all DTM cars will use hybrid systems (similar to Formula One) to improve overtaking.
  • After using single-element rear wings for five seasons, the rear wing of all DTM cars has been changed back from a single-element plane wing to a dual-element plane wing. The double-element rear wing was last featured in the DTM in the 2011 season.

    • Leaving DTM

  • Both Mercedes-Benz DTM teams ART Grand Prix and Mücke Motorsport will cease their DTM involvement due to the reduction in the DTM field to 18 cars (6 per manufacturer).
  • Both BMW DTM teams Team Schnitzer and Team MTEK will also cease their DTM involvement.

    • Driver changes

    Entering DTM
  • 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and WEC champion driver Loïc Duval will make his DTM debut with Audi.
  • 2015 FIA GT World Cup winner and Venturi Formula E driver Maro Engel will return to DTM with Mercedes after leaving the series in 2011.
    • Changing teams
  • The 2016 DTM championsip runner-up Edoardo Mortara left Audi to join Mercedes.
    • Leaving DTM
  • Former champions Martin Tomczyk and Timo Scheider announced that they will both retire from DTM championship after 16 years.
  • BMW driver António Félix da Costa announced that he would leave DTM at the end of the 2016 season to focus on Formula E and WEC
  • Miguel Molina, who drove for Audi between 2010 and 2016, left the series.
  • Adrien Tambay, who drove for Audi between 2012 and 2016, left the series.
  • Daniel Juncadella, Christian Vietoris and Maximilian Götz who all drove full-time in 2016, and Felix Rosenqvist, who was a midseason replacement, have all been left off the Mercedes squad in 2017.

    • Calendar

    The nine event calendar was announced on 16 December 2016.

    References

    2017 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Wikipedia
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