RNW Staff

An extraordinary season in DTM is imminent. Considerably more drivers than in the previous year, even more teams: DTM will be taking on the 16 sprint races with a large field. In a first DTM Media Talk, defending champion Maximilian Götz (GER), Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti (ITA), Team ABT Sportsline newcomer Ricardo Feller (SUI), BMW works driver Sheldon van der Linde (RSA), DTM Trophy graduate Louis Henkefend (GER) and Timo Bernhard, team principal, Team75 Motorsport, spoke about their expectations for the upcoming season. In one aspect, they were unanimous: DTM is facing another extremely thrilling season.

Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS has unveiled its full-season entry lists for 2022, with competitive grids confirmed for both the Sprint Cup and Endurance Cup formats.

Racing driver Bill Auberlen has been synonymous with winning and BMW for some 25 years. He was an IMSA winner before he signed on with The Ultimate Driving Machine® in 1996 and he has continued to be a winner in every BMW racing car he has driven in the past quarter century. The 53-year-old Californian sits at the top of the all-time IMSA pole position (45) and victories (64) list and on March 19th he will make his 500th start in a BMW racing car at the 70th Twelve Hours of Sebring. That’s more than any other BMW driver on the planet.

Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS is ready to go racing after wrapping up a successful two-day test at Circuit Paul Ricard.

The festivities for the Twelve Hours of Sebring get underway in less than two weeks’ time, and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship team NTE/SSR will welcome Lamborghini GT3 Junior driver Mateo Llarena to race in the No. 42 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 alongside Don Yount and fellow Junior driver Jaden Conwright in the March 16-19 event. 

True Visions Motorsports Thailand have become the first team to confirm a GTC entry for 2022’s Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia Powered by AWS campaign.

Performance Tech Motorsports is thrilled to welcome back Rasmus Lindh and Dan Goldburg for the full 2022 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship.

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing will defend its FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) titles with an updated GR010 HYBRID Hypercar, which begins with the 1000 Miles of Sebring in Florida next week.

The Spaniard of Kurdish ancestry will be contesting the 2022 GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup by Amazon at the wheel of a GSM Novamarine-run Lamborghini Huracan GT3. Tutumlu will fight for Silver class honours alongside Austrian driver Gerhard Tweraser during the 5-round season.

SSR Performance already having announced its participation in the 2022 DTM with a pair of Porsche 911 GT3 Rs back in December, the team now also confirms its driver line-up. Porsche works driver Laurens Vanthoor (BEL) with starting number #92 and Porsche contracted driver Dennis Olsen (NOR) are racing for the team from Munich. Both for the drivers and the team, the upcoming season will be the first full one in DTM, SSR Performance already having had a guest participation at Nürburgring in 2021. The new season gets underway at Portimão (POR) from 29 April until 1 May and includes 16 races. In the German-speaking countries, the races, all of them starting at 1.30pm CET/CEST, will be broadcast on ProSieben for the first time.

Following the announcement it will field two Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evos in the International GT Open, Oregon Team unveils its drivers for a third consecutive season in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe.

Berlin-based BWT Mücke Motorsport are gearing up for their debut in the DTM Trophy and beefing up their squad in the DTM feeder series by taking on another promising young talent. 19-year-old Frenchman Edouard Cauhaupé will line up for the 2022 season at the wheel of the team’s second Mercedes-AMG GT4 alongside Rodrigo Almeida and contest the seven race weekends as a rookie driver just like his team-mate.

Experienced Audi R8 racer Finlay Hutchison will compete in both the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS Endurance Cup and the sister Sprint Cup this year, after signing an exciting deal with reigning GTWCE Champions Team WRT.

The stars of international GT racing descended on London yesterday (4 March) when the annual SRO Motorsports Group Awards celebrated the 2021 season with a spectacular prize-giving ceremony. 

Strong statement from ZVO Racing: The newcomer to the series will line up in the 2022 ADAC GT Masters as an official Mercedes-AMG Performance Team in the striking pink of BWT. The team from Mendig will run a second Mercedes-AMG GT3 in its debut season. The car will start under the team name Mercedes-AMG Team ZVO. Sharing the cockpit of the 550-hp GT3 car will be Mercedes-AMG Performance driver Daniel Juncadella (E/30) and Jan Marschalkowski (Inning/19). ZVO Racing is also represented by another impressive pair of drivers in former champion Jules Gounon (F/27) and Mercedes-AMG Junior Fabian Schiller (Bonn/24). The new ADAC GT Masters season kicks off from 22nd to 24th April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben.

Walkenhorst Motorsport continues its two-pronged commitment to the DTM platform. Next to running a pair of BMWs for Marco Wittmann (GER) and Esteban Muth (BEL) in DTM, the BMW team from Melle near Osnabrück will again be competing with a BMW for Theo Oeverhaus (GER) in the talent pool DTM Trophy. The 17-year-old from Osnabrück already showed his considerable talent in his debut season. As the youngest driver, he ended up sixth overall from 28 drivers in the 2021 DTM Trophy following a victory and two further podium results.

Team Parker Racing is delighted to announce that Seb Morris will return to the team for the 2022 season, making his debut in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB

WeatherTech Racing will run two cars for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship Twelve Hours of Sebring to run March 16-19.

A new team, two new drivers, one approach: the Project 1 team becomes involved in DTM Trophy with two BMW M4 GT4s and drivers Louis Henkefend (GER) and Colin Caresani (NLD). For the racing stable from Lohne near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, the participation in the talent pool on the DTM platform is a consequent continuation of its approach in supporting young talents in motorsport. Both drivers have completed a successful season in the BMW M2 Cup in 2021. Now, the next step follows in DTM Trophy. The race series consists of 14 sprint races, the season opener is at DEKRA Lausitzring Turn 1 from 20 till 22 May.

Team Redline Racing have retained the services of Micah Stanley for the Porsche Carrera Cup GB this year, with the 2021 Pro Am runner up returning for his second season in the championship.