[porsche962fan]

Originally Posted by DS"

German news site motorsport-magazin has a very interesting series of articles on their homepage. It's about the attempt to revive the DTM in the late 90's. To sum it up: By the late 90's, everyone wasn't satisfied with the STW. Therefore, four people set up a secret group, in order to draw up plans for a new DTM: Christian Danner, Rainer Braun - German commentary legend -, the then-head of RTL's sports department and a technician from Opel. I'll leave links below and I'd recommend translating the articles with deepL. It should be good enough, if you translate them from German to English.


https://www.motorsport-magazin.com/d...k-2000-teil-1/
https://www.motorsport-magazin.com/d...k-2000-teil-2/
https://www.motorsport-magazin.com/d...k-2000-teil-3/


Maybe that could be a way to go for current DTM, as the situation is somewhat similar. Maybe the remaining stakeholders - BMW, Sat1, drivers, teams and officials - should band together and draw up a concept that will deliver spectacular racing at a reasonable cost, while keeping an eye on the future.


BTW: Am I the only one that finds it odd that a commentator had a hand in drawing up regulations for a series? Imagine John Hindhaugh having a hand in creating regulations for the WEC. That being said, both can claim to be experts in their area, so why not?

article is total rubish

the most exiting era of DTM was 1988-1990 when the cars they used were even closer to the road cars than the STW cars

and to highlight the point STW and DTM did compete until 1996 and who has "won" ? DTM then spiraled itself out of existance thanks to astronomic costs, pretty much like recently