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So it's 6 drivers (Schneider, Alesi, Paffett, Häkkinen, Albers and Green) lining up for 5 HWA cars.
With Albers saying that he wants to go to F1 he should move now before his chances are gone. (Wonder if he can motivate himself for another season in DTM after missing out on the title twice). |
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100% confirmed Green will drive an '05 car.
I'm not sure if anybody realises but Alesi is still not confirmed.Only Schneider, Paffett, Hakkinen and Green are confirmed. |
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Euroteam quits autosport according www.italiaracing.net. Team owner Gabriel Seresina will become hotelmanager at Lago of Garda......
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Joest will run the 4 2004 cars and Abt the 05 cars
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ABT Mattias Ekstrom Martin Tomczyk Tom Kristensen Allan Mc Nish Joest Rinaldo Capello Pierre Kaffer Frank Stippler Christian Abt Abt not in the Abt team! |
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Regarding Euroteam's scaling down. If Opel Performance are going to run just four cars, assuming worst case they're re-used 2004 chassis, surely there are two going spare? If they're using new builds, then there are 6!
Even if there's no Euroteam, I see no reason why a privateer might not want to pick up a few Vectra's, if they can't buy any of the spare C-Klasse '04 or Audi A4 '04 cars that is |
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There could be 3 possible reasons for this 1) For some reasons, manufacturers don't want their last year cars being raced. Don't want their tech secrets exposed? 2) They're asking too much for last year's cars. 3) No interest from privateers??? But what about all those ex-V8 Star or open wheel racing teams??? The DTM should have tried to lure all those ex-V8 Star teams over! I thought I heard Reason #2 is why we don't see more cars racing? Last edited by kmchow; 12 Dec 2004 at 23:10. |
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If I was being cynical, I'd say Mercedes & Audi don't want to hand out last years cars to privateers so they don't see their name running around the back - as without the privateers, all the Opel's will be last!
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There is any site (besides www.dtm.de) where i can see some 2005 cars?
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There are no 2005 cars yet, so I wonder what you mean with DTM.de, because there are no 2005 cars there either
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Interesting that Joest, a team with so much pedigree, has rather been relegated to junior status, running year-old cars (and the brother of the boss of the 'senior' Audi team!). Still, I expect Kristensen and McNish to shine alongside Ekstrom, though I can't quite see how Tomcyzk gets a 2005-spec car but Kaffer and Capello don't.
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Tomcyzk has several years of DTM experience, Kaffer and Capello don't. (In the present era, anyway).
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Still, Tomcyzk doesn't seem to have done much in his DTM career, really. He won a race a couple of years ago, I seem to recall, but since then Ekstrom has become the leading light of the Audi team, and Kristensen did OK this year. Personal choice of course, but I'd have put Capello or Kaffer in the new car. After all, Kaffer's certainly proved himself in prototypes, and he wasn't too shabby in the Porsche Supercup.
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