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Former DTM champion Laurent Aiello is another well known name to be joining the ranks of Opel drivers in 2004, after signing a deal with the manufacturer. Aiello took the title in 2002 with Abt-Audi but was unhappy with the performance of the car...

Following in the footsteps of Jean Alesi, former Formula One driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen will move to the German Touring Car series (DTM) in 2004. Frentzen drove for Sauber in F1 in 2003 but both he and teammate Nick Heidfeld have been replaced...

Marcel Fässler has spent all his four years in the DTM with Mercedes but now it's time for a change. Last week Fässler announced that he is moving to Opel for 2004 and is ready for a new challenge. After three fourth places in the...

In what is turning out to be a busy week in DTM, Laurent Aiello has parted company with Abt-Audi, the team he won the 2002 championship with. Audi had a comparatively poor season in 2003 and Aiello only managed fourth in the title standings as ...

Marcel Fässler has left Mercedes after four years with marque and will move to Opel for 2004. The 27-year old Swiss joined the DTM in 2000 with Mercedes and was Rookie of the Year, finishing fourth overall in the championship. He retained the...

Jean Alesi won the last DTM race of the season at Hockenheim and Bernd Schneider took the 2003 championship, his third title in four years and his fourth in the DTM since 1995. Third on the grid, Alesi overtook the second placed Opel of Peter ...

After racing the Astra V8 Coupé in the DTM for four years, Opel's focus will switch to a car based on the Vectra GTS five-door model for the 2004 season, motorsport director Volker Strycek announced at Hockenehim this weekend. The manufacturer...

Dutchman Christijan Albers took victory in front of his home crowd at Zandvoort and in doing so kept the title fight open to the final round at Hockenheim. Points leader Bernd Schneider fought back from thirteenth on the grid to finish second, so...

Opel's Timo Scheider took his maiden pole position in round nine of the DTM championship at Zandvoort, in what was a surprise shake-up in qualifying. Opel had been looking strong through practices and Team Holzer's Alain Menu was provisional pole...

Marcel Fässler finally converted pole position into a win at the A1-Ring after a hard fought, thrilling battle with double champion Bernd Schneider. The two Mercedes drivers went head to head in the final half dozen laps in what was a truly ...

AMG Mercedes driver Marcel Fässler will start the eighth round of the DTM at Austria on pole position, his third pole of the season. Fässler was out fourth in the super-pole after qualifying seventh in the first session and set a 1:27.212...

Jean Alesi is none too pleased with some of the tactics that go on in the DTM, describing drivers' actions at the last race at Nürburgring as unscrupulous and "not very gentlemanly". The AMG Mercedes driver has previously voiced his critical ...

Christijan Albers, newly promoted to a 2003 spec CLK at the start of this season, wasted no time proving Mercedes had made the right decision. A fifth place finish in the season opener at Hockenheim was the warm up to his maiden DTM victory in the...

Jean Alesi is confident that he has adapted to the DTM and thinks the new single race format will suit his style. Prior to the season opener at Hockenheim last weekend, Alesi spent time testing and was happy with improvements made to the ...

The DTM season opener at the Hockenheimring proved a good one for fans and teams alike and especially for Mercedes. Despite the downpour on race day, Mercedes triumphed with a one-two finish and four cars in the points scoring positions. Vodafone...

Just one day before the first race weekend of the DTM season, Mercedes and Uwe Alzen have parted company. Alzen, 35, drove for Mercedes in 2001 and 2002 for the HWA Mercedes squad and was fifth in last year's Driver's championship. No reason has...

Jean Alesi is looking forward to his second season in the DTM and thinks the series is very exciting. Driving again for Mercedes, the former F1 star is impressed with the organization and pleased how well the fans are treated. "The DTM, in my ...

In a swap around from 2002, Mercedes drivers Marcel Fässler and Jean Alesi will be team-mates in the DTM this year. Last season Alesi partnered Bernd Schneider and Fässler drove with Uwe Alzen but for 2003 Alzen and Schneider will drive the...

Current DTM champion Laurent Aiello is getting ready to defend his title this season, hoping to succeed in the task to take the championship for a second year. The Frenchman, who was previously British Touring Car champion, thinks Abt-Audi will be...

After taking part in the common DTM test at Adria in Italy last month, Mercedes have been back to work this week at the A1-Ring in Austria. Work focused on set up and tyres ahead of the season opener at Hockenheim on April 27th and the final test...

Stefan Mücke topped the times for the first two days of the official DTM test at Adria in Italy this week, the Mercedes driver beating the new CLK in one of last year's chassis. Setting a fastest of 1:12.91 on Wednesday, Mücke bettered it by...

Like all the DTM drivers, Jean Alesi will be at Adria in Italy this week for the four-day ITR test session (18-21 March), the new circuit on the DTM calendar for the second round this year. It will be the first time all three manufacturers, ...

At the Hockenheim circuit last week, Mercedes ran straight line aerodynamic tests with the 2003 chassis. Currently there is only one new car available to test, with a second to be finished shortly. Mercedes will field four new cars this year, and...

Jean Alesi is looking forward to the new DTM season and has settled into the series for this year. Recently home from a trip to the States, the Mercedes driver, who attended a presentation of the new E55 AMG in Detroit, thinks this year's Mercedes...

Double DTM champion Bernd Schneider was happy with last season's results, despite losing his title to Laurent Aiello. The battle between the two went to the penultimate round at Zandvoort but Mercedes driver Schneider had to concede defeat....

Abt-Audi boss Hans-Jürgen Abt is in favour of scrapping the current two race DTM format for one longer race. The pre-main event qualifying race is usually seven to nine laps, depending on circuit distance and there has been discussion on the ...

Christijan Albers is reportedly close to signing a deal with Minardi and the Dutchman's manager is confident that the details can be sorted out. Minardi team principal Paul Stoddart confirmed in December that Albers was in the running for the race...