2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
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The 2015 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season is the sixteenth season of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, since the series' resumption in 2000. The season started on 2 May at Hockenheim, and ended on 18 October at the same venue, with Mercedes Benz driver Pascal Wehrlein clinching the Drivers' Championship, Mercedes Benz's HWA AG winning the Teams' Championship and BMW taking the Manufacturer's Championship after a total of nine events.
Marco Wittmann entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champion, BMW Team RMG as the defending Teams' Champion and Audi as the defending Manufacturers' Champion.
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Teams and drivers
- Drivers were assigned permanent numbers for the duration of their DTM careers, with the championship adopting a system similar to the one used in Formula One and MotoGP. The number 1 was the champion's right, with drivers free to choose any number from 2 to 99; the champion's "regular" number was reserved while they were using the number 1.[1]
- please note that cars 27 (A.Tambay) and 48 (E.Mortara) drove for Audi Sport Team Abt, whereas cars 5 (M.Ekström) and 17 (M.Molina) were entered as Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline as aforementioned.
- The HWA AG Mercedes driverss were split into two for the Teams' championship. Cars 8 (C.Vietoris) and 94 (P.Wehrlein) formed one team whilst cars 3 (P. Di Resta) and 6 (R.Wickens) formed another.
Team changes
- Single-seater team ART Grand Prix will join the series in 2015, running a Mercedes team of two cars, for Lucas Auer and Gary Paffett.[9]
Driver changes
- Entering DTM
- Maximilian Götz, who won the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series, joined Mercedes-Benz.[10]
- European Formula 3 front-runners Lucas Auer and Tom Blomqvist joined the series, driving for Mercedes-Benz and BMW respectively.[4][8]
- Leaving DTM
- Joey Hand, who drove for BMW between 2012 and 2014, left the series and joined the United SportsCar Championship.[3][13]
- Vitaly Petrov, who drove for Mercedes-Benz in 2014, left the series.[9]
- Mid-season changes
- Timo Scheider was excluded from participating in the Moscow Raceway round after pushing out both Robert Wickens and Pascal Wehrlein in the second race of the Red Bull Ring. European Formula 3 front-runner Antonio Giovinazzi replaced him at the Russian venue for Audi Sport Team Phoenix.[12]
Performance weights
Starting from Norisring, ITR introduced a system of ballast based on the results obtained in the previous race. The basis weight is 1120 kg, and performance weight ranges from a minimum of 1105 kg to a maximum of 1140 kg[14]
Driver | Car | Norisring[15] | Zandvoort[16] | Red Bull Ring[17] | Moscow | Oschersleben | Nürburgring | Hockenheim |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Marco Wittmann | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1117,5 kg |
Gary Paffett | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg |
Paul di Resta | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg |
Mattias Ekström | Audi | 1137,5 kg | 1130 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1137,5 kg | 1137,5 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg |
Robert Wickens | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg |
Bruno Spengler | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1115 kg |
Christian Vietoris | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg |
Timo Scheider | Audi | 1135 kg | 1125 kg | 1120 kg | - | 1125 kg | 1115 kg | 1115 kg |
Daniel Juncadella | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg | 1130 kg |
António Félix da Costa | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1117,5 kg |
Timo Glock | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1115 kg |
Miguel Molina | Audi | 1135 kg | 1125 kg | 1120 kg | 1125 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1115 kg | 1115 kg |
Augusto Farfus | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1117,5 kg |
Lucas Auer | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg |
Adrien Tambay | Audi | 1130 kg | 1120 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1125 kg | 1122,5 kg | 1112,5 kg | 1112,5 kg |
Tom Blomqvist | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1112,5 kg | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1115 kg | 1115 kg |
Maxime Martin | BMW | 1107,5 kg | 1107,5 kg | 1115 kg | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1112,5 kg | 1112,5 kg |
Edoardo Mortara | Audi | 1140 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1135 kg | 1137,5 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg |
Nico Müller | Audi | 1135 kg | 1125 kg | 1120 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1130 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg |
Jamie Green | Audi | 1137,5 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1130 kg | 1132,5 kg | 1125 kg | 1125 kg |
Martin Tomczyk | BMW | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1110 kg | 1105 kg | 1105 kg | 1112,5 kg | 1112,5 kg |
Maximilian Götz | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1125 kg | 1120 kg | 1120 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1117,5 kg | 1117,5 kg |
Pascal Wehrlein | Mercedes-Benz | 1120 kg | 1130 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1130 kg | 1130 kg | 1130 kg |
Antonio Giovinazzi | Audi | - | - | - | 1137,5 kg | - | - | - |
Mike Rockenfeller | Audi | 1140 kg | 1130 kg | 1125 kg | 1135 kg | 1137,5 kg | 1127,5 kg | 1127,5 kg |
Race calendar and results
The nine event calendar was announced on 3 December 2014.[18]
Calendar changes
- The 2015 season saw the DTM series go back to a two races per weekend format. It was the first time since 2002 that the DTM used the format.
- The round at the Hungaroring – which had been included on the DTM calendar in 1988 and 2014 – was discontinued.
Championship standings
- Scoring system
Points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers as follows:
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' championship
|
Bold – Pole |
- † — Driver retired, but was classified as they completed 75% of the winner's race distance.
Teams' championship
|
Bold – Pole |
Manufacturers' championship
Pos. | Driver | HOC |
LAU |
NOR |
ZAN |
RBR |
MSC |
OSC |
NÜR |
HOC |
Points | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | BMW | 13 | 25 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 69 | 80 | 10 | 1 | 37 | 36 | 88 | 79 | 33 | 33 | 29 | 19 | 602 |
2 | Audi | 55 | 51 | 76 | 83 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 40 | 0 | 23 | 56 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 31 | 55 | 68 | 595 |
3 | Mercedes-Benz | 33 | 25 | 19 | 14 | 71 | 73 | 1 | 13 | 51 | 38 | 41 | 9 | 11 | 18 | 49 | 37 | 17 | 14 | 534 |
Pos. | Driver | HOC |
LAU |
NOR |
ZAN |
RBR |
MSC |
OSC |
NÜR |
HOC |
Points |
Notes
- ↑ Reserve driver Esteban Ocon participated in FP1 in the second Hockenheim round due to Daniel Juncadella being ill with food poisoning.
References
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External links
- The official website of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (German) (English)