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Playing by the rules
The DTM has drafted new regulations to help reduce the budgets and spice up the action
Superficially, the DTM has been in a good place in recent years. In BMW, Mercedes and Audi, it’s had three prestigious manufacturers involved, while it’s enjoyed championship battles that, more often than not, gone down to the wire, producing tense conclusions.
Yet, despite all of the above, criticisms regarding the on-track product and also that familiar motorsport bugbear of rising costs, have forced the series to draft updated regulations to help reduce budgets and spice up the action. Meanwhile, the three manufacturers have, for their part, also looked to cut costs, and have opted to drop from running eight cars each to six, reducing the car count to 18 – its lowest since 2011, when only…
