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Introduction:
German Touring Car Masters (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) referred to DTM, formerly known as German volume delivery room racing ( DPM, German Production Championship). In 1986, Germany’s highest DPM Racing Association will be renamed GTCC (German Touring Car Championship), after which the German racing fans turn GTCC conventionally called DTM, DTM this name gradually replace GTCC known. In the international racing hierarchy, DTM race belong to Class-Ⅰ, is currently the world’s only Class-Ⅰ touring car racing, the highest technical standards adopted by the permit, the maximum conversion rate is also known as “never ending car loaded shell of F1”
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origin:
1983 , but because of the mainstream non-exposed wheel (non Open wheel) tournament Group C has entered expensive and boring dead end, so Germany’s highest racing Association ONS intend to rise a wave of touring car “Renaissance”, in Germany the main after racing to discuss important people, we decided to establish a group called the production car race (production car Championship) of the group, which later became group A.
The greatest feature of this group is fair competition, which is later successively heavier system, the greater the horsepower or larger car body must increase, while the smaller horsepower car engine you can useWider tires, etc., with the horsepower to weight ratio of the vehicle to decide whether to increase, in order to achieve a fair race, and in order to avoid the same car with the driver leading the race throughout the season, the top three drivers in every game must be next games aggravated if subsequent performance failed to maintain the top three, will lead weights can be removed the next game, this would have roughly the establishment of a prototype of a new generation of touring car.
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Competition:
With science and technology development, DTM racing technology escalating (such as carbon-fiber body, titanium alloy engine pistons and connecting rods, electronic suspension systems, as well as over ten thousand revolutions per minute of the engine speed), resulting in funding for the operation of a DTM team continues to improve, many of private teams who can not pay the entry fee can not participate in the competition. Meanwhile, DTM races since 1995 taken over by the FIA, and officially incorporated into the International Touring Car Championship in 1996 (lnternational Touringcar Championship, referred to as ITC), these two factors led to the DTM race closed in 1997.
in 2000, the efforts of the German Mercedes-Benz car division, DTM finally return to the track, the organizers in order to reduce costs and for the principle of fair competition, the car developed a strict specification limits.
Production participating vehicles must be modified from a cart-based, must naturally aspirated 4.0 liter V8 engine, the output power is limited to 331 kW (450 hp). Each racing season can only use one engine, the engine must be more durable, greatly reducing the cost of running the team on the engine. All cars use a unified electronic control unit, prohibits the use of electronic anti-lock braking system and traction control systems, electronic systems to reduce the impact on vehicle performance differences.
per yearIt has a total of 10 points races, including six held in Germany standing, the other with the Netherlands, the UK, Spain, France and four overseas sub-station. The highest score of riders, has become the annual championship.
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in many of the world touring car events, DTM touring car is gathered the most top professional racer game, there are former Formula one drivers race to DTM , DTM drivers have also been promoted to Formula one, the famous Formula one world champion Michael Schumacher Formula one is a typical example of a promotion by the DTM.