The driver lineup at Team Rosberg of former Formula 1 world champion Keke Rosberg stays unchanged. The squad led by Kimmo Liimatainen relies in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse and has received the drivers title three instances in the previous 5 years. Swiss Audi Sport driver Nico Müller, DTM runner-up in 2019 and 2020, shares the pits with American privateer Dev Gore. New to the DTM however well-known at Audi Sport customer racing is Attempto Racing. The crew of Arkin Aka from Hanover, which has been racing GT automobiles throughout Europe for years and has already received a 12-hour race with the R8 LMS, is getting ready a race automotive for Marius Zug. The 19-year-old up-and-comer has gained his first GT3 expertise in Italian racing.
The ProSieben TV station broadcasts all 16 dash races of the eight Europe-wide DTM occasions stay. But it isn’t solely the GT3 race automobiles that provide thrilling sport. For the third 12 months in a row, the DTM Trophy offers up-and-coming drivers in GT4 race automobiles the prospect to be a focus for the DTM crew bosses. As in 2021, Heide-Motorsport from Witten is represented in the sphere with three Audi R8 LMS GT4 automobiles. Team boss Michael Heide fills his cockpits with South African Mikaeel Pitamber, German Sophie Hofmann and one different driver. As one other Audi Sport customer racing customer, T3 Motorsport has entered the sequence. Jens Feucht’s crew is coming into its third season with the Audi R8 LMS GT4. After two years in the ADAC GT4 Germany, it has now switched to the DTM Trophy. The crew from Dresden is getting ready one production-based sports activities automotive every for the Finn Matias Salonen and the US American John Paul Southern Jr. The DTM Trophy shall be held on seven joint weekends with the DTM. For the primary time, the TCR Europe may even be making a visitor look on this platform. Three of its seven rounds shall be held by the favored touring automotive class as a part of the DTM supporting program, beginning with the season opener at Portimão. The long-standing Audi customer crew Comtoyou Racing of Jean-Michel Baert, 2020 winner of the TCR Europe, will area three Audi RS 3 LMS gen II automobiles. In the cockpits: crowd favourite Tom Coronel, fourth in the standings final 12 months, final 12 months’s runner-up Franco Girolami and TCR Europe Diamond class winner Viktor Davidovski. In addition, Élite Motorsport by Comtoyou will area one Audi TCR touring automotive every for Luís Cidade and Miklas Born.
Teams and drivers on the 2022 DTM platform
DTM
Audi R8 LMS #3 ABT Sportsline, Kelvin van der Linde
Audi R8 LMS #7 ABT Sportsline, Ricardo Feller
Audi R8 LMS #12 Team Rosberg, Dev Gore
Audi R8 LMS #33 Team ABT, René Rast
Audi R8 LMS #51 Team Rosberg, Nico Müller
Audi R8 LMS #66 Attempto Racing, Marius Zug
DTM Trophy
Audi R8 LMS GT4 #17 Heide-Motorsport, Mikaeel Pitamber
Audi R8 LMS GT4 #48 Heide-Motorsport, Sophie Hofmann
Audi R8 LMS GT4 #66 T3 Motorsport, Matias Salonen
Audi R8 LMS GT4 #77 T3 Motorsport, John Paul Southern Jr.
Audi R8 LMS GT4 Heide-Motorsport, NN
TCR Europe
Audi RS 3 LMS #2 Élite Motorsport by Comtoyou, Luís Cidade
Audi RS 3 LMS #18 Élite Motorsport by Comtoyou, Miklas Born
Audi RS 3 LMS #33 Comtoyou Racing, Tom Coronel
Audi RS 3 LMS #72 Comtoyou Racing, Franco Girolami
Audi RS 3 LMS #110 Comtoyou Racing, Viktor Davidovski
