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It's been a busy time for McLaren recently, as the team has confirmed both Vodafone as a title sponsor and current world champion Fernando Alonso as a driver for 2007, and now the Woking squad has announced this season's DTM champion Gary Paffett...

Now the 2005 season is over thoughts are already turning to next year but for one manufacturer there will be no more DTM. Parent company General Motors (GM) made the decision to withdraw Opel at the end of this season so one of the top, if not the...

Bernd Schneider took his 39th DTM victory in the last event of the season at Hockenheim, in his 200th race. The Mercedes man led home a one-two-three for the manufacturer, with Jamie Green second and Gary Paffett third. Paffett became the first...

Jamie Green took his second pole position of the season in qualifying for the last race at Hockenheim, the Mercedes man clocking a best of 1:45:294 in the super pole session. In mixed weather conditions the Audi of Tom Kristensen was second and ...

Audi's Mattias Ekström swung the championship pendulum back in his favour by one point, yet again, when he took the victory at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz. Title rival Gary Paffett, who had held the same small advantage over Ekström before the...

At the second visit of the season to the EuroSpeedway Lausitz Jamie Green took his maiden pole position in the DTM. In difficult conditions the Mercedes driver clocked a best of 1:17.489 in the super-pole qualifying, ahead of the Opels of ...

Audi's Mattias Ekström snatched the victory from Mercedes rival Gary Paffet at the Nürburgring and regained the lead of the championship standings by one single point. Paffett led most of the race until receiving a drive-through penalty that...

DTM championship leader Gary Paffett took pole position in qualifying for the seventh round at the Nürburgring and Mika Häkkinen made it an all Mercedes front row in second. This came as a bit of a rude surprise to Audi, whose drivers had...

Mercedes driver Gary Paffett kept the championship fight very close by taking victory at Oschersleben ahead of Audi rival Mattias Ekström, the result reducing Ekström's lead over Paffett in the standings to a single point. Ekström battled...

Audi's Tom Kristensen claimed his maiden DTM pole position at the fifth round of the championship at Oschersleben, in a qualifying with a different format due to the weather. Kristensen clocked a best of 1:20.218 and fellow Audi driver Martin ...

After claiming his first DTM pole position in the third round at Spa-Francorchamps, Mika Häkkinen followed it up with his maiden victory in the series. The Mercedes driver beat Audi's reigning champion Mattias Ekström in the first round of...

Mika Häkkinen took his first DTM pole position in qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps, where the Mercedes man posted a best of 2:32.729 in the super-pole session. In very wet conditions, Audi's Mattias Ekström took second on the grid and the...

Mercedes driver Gary Paffett took a confident and dominant victory at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz in what was, by DTM standards, a fairly sedate event. Audi's Tom Kristensen had a good race to come home second and Mika Häkkinen scored his first...

Mercedes proved to be strong again at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz and locked out the top three positions in the super pole qualifying. Gary Paffett took pole position comfortably two tenths ahead of Jamie Green, and DTM rookie Mika Hakkinen was...

Mercedes started the 2005 season in fine style with a podium lock-out at Hockenheim, where race winner Jean Alesi led home Gary Paffett and Bernd Schneider. Audi couldn't really match the pace at a circuit where Mercedes traditionally goes well,...

Reigning DTM champion Mattias Ekström took pole position for the first race of the season at Hockenheim, his Audi setting the best time of 1:35.251 in the super pole qualifying. A pair of British Mercedes drivers followed on, with Gary Paffett...

2005 will be the last season that Opel competes in the DTM, as parent company General Motors decided to withdraw the marque after this year. However, the team is not letting that detract from the work ahead and is hoping that with a good season...