DTM 2024

[Matt K]

Thankfully the race was salvaged. Nice to see Kelvin van der Linde in the top form again. The season will be wide open though, as usual. Have to say that before ADAC took over, the results seemed less like a lottery (talking about 2021 and 22, Class 1 was a completely different thing).

[Matt K]

Well, have to say - as much as Lausitzring is not famous for creating exciting races - today's one was fantastic, really entertaining. The Preining vs van der Linde vs Feller battle for the lead was superb. More of that please! Great to see Abts going so strong and Preining being back in the top form, was really strange when they were so much off at Oschersleben.

On a completely different note, I have to say that Verena Vriedt - as much as she's likeable and already quite a DTM icon, being involved ever since I remember - she's a terrible interviewer. Difficult to listen to the interviews she does with the drivers/team bosses etc. Her questions are either obvious, pointless or already contain answers in them, that's why it's rarely interesting to see what drivers say.

[porsche962fan]

Originally Posted by Matt K

I have to say that Verena Vriedt - as much as she's likeable and already quite a DTM icon,

she will never be anything close to Christa Haas / Gierke from the original DTM

[airbusA346]

Another weekend to forget for Manthey.

[Matt K]

Today's race was pretty wild and eventful. Very glad to see Wittmann back on the top step of the podium, his car was in a pretty rough shape and didn't expect him to finish the race, let alone win it with such an advantage over Bortolotti.
Aitken must be the biggest loser of the race. Apart from his two wins this year he's never been in the Top 10! Crazy.

Have to say though, that I dislike the BOP in GT3. Hadn't been following GT3 racing very closely before DTM switched to these regulations but it seems like there's way too much lottery in that and seeing drivers such as Thomas Preining limping somewhere in the back of the field because of BOP is discouraging. Okay, Manthey seems in a big hole at the moment but with BOP you never know if it's team's/driver's performance or the BOP. One can only dream of DTM going back to some own technical regs.