YouTube - DTM History - The Golden Years

 

Just awesome, absolutely love the opening. I'm rep'd out for the day, will do tomorrow.

Love the clip @ 1:01

 

DTM is my favorite series. Is there any video like this of the detuned F1 engine era? Those cars were incredible (mid-90s before the 4.0L V8s).

This is what I'm talking about (V6s revving to 13,000 rpms):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z-glKupCpo



From Wiki:

In 1993, the Group A rules were abandoned in favor of a more liberalized 2.5 L engine series called FIA Class 1, with extensive use of ABS, four-wheel drive, electronic driver aids and carbon fibre chassis, the former three were technologies that were banned from F1. Opel, Mercedes-Benz and Alfa Romeo all fielded works teams after Audi and BMW had abandoned earlier.

 

the golden years indeed great find

 

That makes me wet.

Rep for you.

 

Why did BMW leave DTM? Was it to focus on F1 development?

Won't be complete till they return. Hopefully they will after the F1 season.

And how sick does that Martini Alfa look Chris. Thats the era where they were more advanced than F1.

 

I've heard that one reason BMW Motorsport pulled out of F1 for the near future was so that they could focus on touring car/GT racing as it better translates to their production cars. Scuttle butt is that BMW plans to base their DTM return on info learned from the ALMS M3 GT2 cars. I very much hope this proves true b/c a modern day M3 DTM would be beyond epic.

 

DTM is phenomenal. I was so out-of-my-mind pissed @ Speed Channel when they pulled DTM to show NASCAR "highlights" (an oxymoron if you ask me). DTM is what NASCAR wishes it was...

 

Would be just a 3-series. But in know what your saying. EPIC.

Iv'e been searching for footage of my old man racing the E30's in the early nineties. I'm gonna go to the film archive when i have some time to try and digg the TV footage out.