2024 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

2024 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Drivers' Champion:
Mirko Bortolotti
Teams' Champion:
Schubert Motorsport
Manufacturers' Championship:
Mercedes-AMG

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2023

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2025

Support series:
ADAC GT Masters
Prototype Cup Germany
ADAC GT4 Germany
Porsche Carrera Cup Germany

The 2024 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the thirty-eighth season of the premier German touring car championship and also the twenty-fifth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It's the fourth season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations, and the second under ADAC's promotion.

Teams and drivers

All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli.

Manufacturer Car Engine Team No. Driver Status Rounds Ref. Audi Audi R8 LMS Evo II Audi DAR 5.2 L V10 Abt Sportsline 3 Kelvin van der Linde All [1] 7 Ricardo Feller All BMW BMW M4 GT3 BMW P58 3.0 L Twin Turbo I6 Schubert Motorsport 11 Marco Wittmann All [2] 31 Sheldon van der Linde All 33 René Rast All Ferrari Ferrari 296 GT3 Ferrari F163CE 3.0 L Twin Turbo V6 Emil Frey Racing 14 Jack Aitken All [3] 69 Thierry Vermeulen All Lamborghini Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 2 Lamborghini DGF 5.2 L V10 Lamborghini Team Liqui Moly by GRT [N 1] Lamborghini Team TGI by GRT [N 1] 19 Luca Engstler All [4] 63 Christian Engelhart 1–3 [5] Franck Perera 4–5, 7–8 [6] Jordan Pepper 6 [7] Paul Motorsport 71 Maximilian Paul All [8] SSR Performance 92 Mirko Bortolotti All [9] 94 Nicki Thiim All McLaren McLaren 720S GT3 Evo McLaren M840T 4.0 L Twin Turbo V8 Dörr Motorsport 25 Ben Dörr All [10] [11] 85 Clemens Schmid All Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT 4 Luca Stolz 1–7 [12] Jules Gounon 8 [13] 36 Arjun Maini All [12] Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter [N 2] Mercedes-AMG Team Winward [N 2] 22 Lucas Auer All [12] 130 Maro Engel All Porsche Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) Porsche M97/80 4.2 L Flat-6 Manthey EMA 90 Ayhancan Güven All [14] 91 Thomas Preining All [15]

Icon Status G Guest drivers ineligible for points

Driver and team changes

• Maximilian Paul returned to the series with a privately entered Lamborghini, having last competed as a replacement driver at GRT Grasser Racing Team.
• GRT Grasser Racing Team entered a completely new line-up, fielding a pair of cars for Christian Engelhart, who drove for them in the 2023 season finale, and Luca Engstler, who switched from Engstler Motorsport.
• SSR Performance scaled down to two cars. Alessio Deledda left the team to compete in International GT Open with Oregon Team, while Franck Perera left to compete in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Iron Lynx. Nicki Thiim, who last competed in European Le Mans Series with GMB Motorsport, was signed as their replacement.
• Dörr Motorsport entered the series, fielding a pair of McLaren 720S GT3 Evos. Clemens Schmid switched from GRT Grasser Racing Team to join them, with Ben Dörr named as the second driver.
• Project 1 left the series, with Sandro Holzem joining Land Motorsport to compete in ADAC GT Masters. Second driver Marco Wittmann switched to Schubert Motorsport, with the team expanding to three cars as a result.
• Porsche teams Toksport WRT and KÜS Team Bernhard left the series. Their drivers Laurin Heinrich, Marvin Dienst and Tim Heinemann left the series to compete in IMSA, GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie respectively. Ayhancan Güven moved KÜS Team Bernhard to Manthey EMA to replace Dennis Olsen, who joined Proton Competition in WEC instead.
• Tresor Attempto Racing left the series, with both drivers Mattia Drudi and Patric Niederhauser moving to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup.
• Mercedes-AMG Team Landgraf left the series, having fielded two cars in 2023 under Team Mann-Filter and Team BWT. Jusuf Owega left the series to compete in GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Maro Engel switched to Winward Racing to replace ADAC GT Masters-bound David Schumacher, with the American team entering his car as Mercedes-AMG Team Winward and Lucas Auer’s car under Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter.

Race calendar

Round	Circuit	Location	Race 1	Race 2
1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Oschersleben, Saxony-Anhalt	27 April	28 April
2	Lausitzring	Klettwitz, Brandenburg	25 May	26 May
3	Circuit Zandvoort	Zandvoort, North Holland	8 June	9 June
4	Norisring	Nuremberg, Bavaria	6 July	7 July
5	Nürburgring	Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate	17 August	18 August
6	Sachsenring	Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Sachsen	7 September	8 September
7	Red Bull Ring	Spielberg, Styria	28 September	29 September
8	Hockenheimring	Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg	19 October	20 October
Source: [16]

Results and standings

Season summary

Round		Circuit	Pole position	Fastest lap	Winning driver	Winning team	Winning manufacturer
1	R1	Motorsport Arena Oschersleben	Jack Aitken	Ricardo Feller	Jack Aitken	Emil Frey Racing	Ferrari
	R2		Mirko Bortolotti	Luca Stolz	Luca Engstler	Lamborghini Team Liqui Moly by GRT	Lamborghini
2	R1	Lausitzring (Sprint Circuit)	Kelvin van der Linde	Kelvin van der Linde	Kelvin van der Linde	Abt Sportsline	Audi
	R2		Thomas Preining	Kelvin van der Linde	Thomas Preining	Manthey EMA	Porsche
3	R1	Circuit Zandvoort	Jack Aitken	Ben Dörr	Jack Aitken	Emil Frey Racing	Ferrari
	R2		Maximilian Paul	Nicki Thiim	Marco Wittmann	Schubert Motorsport	BMW
4	R1	Norisring	Jack Aitken	Maximilian Paul	René Rast	Schubert Motorsport	BMW
	R2		Nicki Thiim	Nicki Thiim	Nicki Thiim	SSR Performance	Lamborghini
5	R1	Nürburgring (Sprint Circuit)	Kelvin van der Linde	Kelvin van der Linde	Kelvin van der Linde	Abt Sportsline	Audi
	R2		Maro Engel	Ayhancan Güven	Sheldon van der Linde	Schubert Motorsport	BMW
6	R1	Sachsenring	Jack Aitken [N 3]	Thierry Vermeulen	Jack Aitken	Emil Frey Racing	Ferrari
	R2		Thierry Vermeulen	Thierry Vermeulen	Luca Stolz	Mercedes-AMG Team HRT	Mercedes-AMG
7	R1	Red Bull Ring	Arjun Maini	Maro Engel	Mirko Bortolotti	SSR Performance	Lamborghini
	R2		Mirko Bortolotti	Thomas Preining	René Rast	Schubert Motorsport	BMW
8	R1	Hockenheimring	Kelvin van der Linde	Jules Gounon	Kelvin van der Linde	Abt Sportsline	Audi
	R2		Mirko Bortolotti	Luca Engstler	Luca Engstler	Lamborghini Team Liqui Moly by GRT	Lamborghini

Scoring system

Points were awarded to the top fifteen classified finishers as follows:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th
Race	25	20	16	13	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

Additionally, the top three placed drivers in qualifying also received points:

Qualifying Position	1st	2nd	3rd
Points	3	2	1

Drivers' championship

Pos. Driver OSC LAU ZAN NOR NÜR SAC RBR HOC Points 1 Mirko Bortolotti 22 151 11 43 9 22 53 32 22 9 23 7 1 41 5 21 238 2 Kelvin van der Linde 12 5 11 2 13 3 6 9 11 4 8 22 8 5 11 12 221 3 Maro Engel 13 2 2 7 11 13 8 23 3 21 3 5 23 8 4 10 203 4 René Rast 7 7 Ret 6 2 7 1 5 11 17 7 9 9 13 7 3 172 5 Thomas Preining 10 13 32 11 14 10 14 6 7 7 61 4 12 2 14 4 158 6 Sheldon van der Linde 4 6 6 8 6 8 72 14 13 1 9 8 11 6 11 9 142 7 Arjun Maini 83 4 7 12 33 6 15 4 10 Ret 5 Ret 31 3 8 13 139 8 Jack Aitken 11 Ret3 16 14 11 16 91 18 5 13 12 6 14 10 Ret 16 128 9 Luca Stolz 5 32 10 DSQ 10 5 11 7 12 11 4 13 4 Ret 127 10 Lucas Auer 6 11 4 10 5 Ret Ret 10 43 12 12 12 7 Ret 22 8 116 11 Ricardo Feller 3 9 53 32 8 11 13 12 9 82 Ret Ret 10 12 12 63 115 12 Marco Wittmann 18 10 13 9 7 1 12 11 6 33 13 DSQ Ret 11 9 7 110 13 Nicki Thiim Ret Ret 8 Ret 12 14 4 11 8 Ret 14 10 13 16 10 52 93 14 Luca Engstler 11 1 14 5 Ret 12 3 19 18 15 Ret Ret 18 Ret2 15 1 92 15 Thierry Vermeulen 9 Ret 17 13 15 43 17 15 16 6 11 31 DSQ 13 13 11 71 16 Ayhancan Güven 14 14 15 11 17 Ret 16 8 17 5 DSQ 13 5 7 33 19 69 17 Franck Perera 2 13 14 10 16 9 Ret 15 39 18 Maximilian Paul 17 DSQ 12 Ret Ret 91 10 Ret 15 16 15 Ret 62 14 16 14 38 19 Clemens Schmid 15 12 19 Ret 42 Ret 18 17 20 DNS Ret 11 15 15 17 17 27 20 Christian Engelhart 16 8 9 16 Ret Ret 15 21 Jules Gounon 6 Ret 10 22 Jordan Pepper 10 Ret 6 23 Ben Dörr Ret 16 18 15 16 15 Ret 16 19 14 16 Ret 17 17 18 18 4 Pos. Driver OSC LAU ZAN NOR NÜR SAC RBR HOC Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap 1 – 3 Points for Pole 2 – 2 Points for P2 3 – 1 Point for P3

Teams' championship

Pos.	Team	Points
1	Schubert Motorsport	361
2	Abt Sportsline	326
3	Winward Racing	316
4	SSR Performance	312
5	Mercedes-AMG Team HRT	272
6	Manthey EMA	226
7	Emil Frey Racing	193
8	GRT Grasser Racing Team	155
9	Paul Motorsport	39
10	Dörr Motorsport	37

Manufacturers' championship

Only points scored by the top two drivers of a manufacturer in races count for the manufacturers' championship.

Pos.	Manufacturer	Points
1	Mercedes-AMG	434
2	Lamborghini	424
3	BMW	382
4	Audi	350
5	Porsche	264
6	Ferrari	237
7	McLaren	97

Notes

1. Car No. 19 entered as Lamborghini Team Liqui Moly by GRT, car No. 63 entered as Lamborghini Team TGI by GRT. Both cars share a teams' championship entry as "GRT Grasser Racing Team".
2. Car No. 22 entered as Mercedes-AMG Team Mann-Filter, car No. 130 entered as Mercedes-AMG Team Winward. Both cars share a teams' championship entry as "Winward Racing".
3. Thomas Preining recorded the fastest time in qualifying and received the three bonus points, but started sixth due to a five-place grid penalty. Jack Aitken was promoted to pole position. ^[17]

References

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External links

• The official website of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (in German and English)