According to British magazine Autosport, DTM series’ promoter ITR is currently working hard on creating a totally new US-based series from 2013.
With BMW having announced on Friday their return to the DTM, and the rumours indicating a possible return of Opel too, ITR has worked on rising the international profile of the DTM series, seen too often as a German championship.
Talking to Autosport, ITR boss Hans Werner Aufrecht said: “In America, we are working with the NASCAR organisation. Beginning in 2013, we hope to have a championship with 12 races in the United States. There would be six races with Grand-Am and six with NASCAR events, for a standalone championship in America. I believe this is very, very good for the future of motorsport in the United States.”
Aufrecht, the name behind the famous HWA acronym, added that the American series would be exclusively for next-generation DTM cars that will be introduced in 2012 and not as part of an existing US series.
The German official added that the Japanese motorsport federation is close to agreeing to run the top class of Super GT, the GT500, exclusively to DTM technical regulations from 2013.
This means that the DTM, the US-DTM and the Japan Super GT series would be run under the same technical regulations.
With BMW having announced on Friday their return to the DTM, and the rumours indicating a possible return of Opel too, ITR has worked on rising the international profile of the DTM series, seen too often as a German championship.
Talking to Autosport, ITR boss Hans Werner Aufrecht said: “In America, we are working with the NASCAR organisation. Beginning in 2013, we hope to have a championship with 12 races in the United States. There would be six races with Grand-Am and six with NASCAR events, for a standalone championship in America. I believe this is very, very good for the future of motorsport in the United States.”
Aufrecht, the name behind the famous HWA acronym, added that the American series would be exclusively for next-generation DTM cars that will be introduced in 2012 and not as part of an existing US series.
The German official added that the Japanese motorsport federation is close to agreeing to run the top class of Super GT, the GT500, exclusively to DTM technical regulations from 2013.
This means that the DTM, the US-DTM and the Japan Super GT series would be run under the same technical regulations.