We haven't heard much of anything about the DTM racing in the U.S. as undercard events at 12 GrandAM and NASCAR races in 2013. Personally, I've never seen this working as the DTM cars will simply blow off anything GrandAM or NASCAR offers especially for 12 rounds and budgets are stretched to the limit in Europe already. Has there been any news about this lately? http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/grand-am-dtm-confirm-us-based-series/ BHW
wow, this makes no sense. Grand Am seems to be grasping at straws on the GT side of things, between this, their bizarre rules package for GT, and now the GTX category that was supposed to be for diesels and hybrids but somehow a Cayman R qualifies IMO there are too many road racing undercard series. World Challenge (with what, 4 classes now? GT, GTS, Touring, Spec B), Conti Tire, Mazda MX5, GT3 Cup, ALMS Lites, what's left of Trans Am, etc. lots of noise and clutter, no obvious path for drivers to the top (other than buckets of cash) and not a lot of ROI for manufacturers/sponsors/etc.
But as the headliner, not the undercard. Seems like if there was something to this, they'd be putting money where their mouths are by now. BHW
A colleague in Europe comments: "Dead Duck.* "A fable invented by ITC to get the marketing department of BMW to join in.......now they are committed, the US project goes the way of the merger with Super GT...........so BMW is now going to homologate the Z4 to GTE............why would they bother if DTM was going to expand their horizons?" BHW
