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DTM: Mercedes confirms David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher

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Khatir Soltani
Two former Formula One drivers, David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher will once again be racing the AMG Mercedes C-Class for the 2011 DTM season.

Both drivers each have more than twenty years’ motor racing experience, and from a joint total of 426 Grand Prix starts they secured 19 Formula One wins between them.

Ralf Schumacher and David Coulthard (Photo: Mercedes-Benz)

This will be Schumacher’s fourth DTM season and his third with the HWA team. On the other hand, as it was the case in 2010, Coulthard will be with Team Mücke Motorsport.

Ralf Schumacher will drive the Salzgitter AMG Mercedes C-Class (last year’s car of Gary Paffett), David Coulthard will line up in the Deutsche Post AMG Mercedes C-Class.

Gary Paffett (Photo: Mercedes-Benz)

The watch and jewellery company Thomas Sabo headquartered in Lauf an der Pregnitz will become a partner of Mercedes-Benz in the DTM. Thirty-year-old Briton Gary Paffett, the 2005 DTM champion, will enter his eighth DTM season at the wheel of the Thomas Sabo AMG Mercedes C-Class in 2011.

The DTM season will begin on May 1st in Hockenheim, Germany.

Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
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