Twelve drivers' titles as well as 14 team and 15 manufacturer championships: That is the outstanding track record of 35 years in the DTM. After the title hattrick in what was to be a farewell season in 2018, Mercedes-AMG Motorsport returned to the DTM in 2021. In the first year under GT3 regulations, Performance Driver Maximilian Götz became champion at the first attempt. The manufacturers' championship has already been won twice by Mercedes-AMG Motorsport in the GT3 era of the series, in 2021 and 2024.
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2024 season
In 2024, Mercedes-AMG continued its glorious history in the series by winning its 15th manufacturers' title in the DTM. The championship was once again held over eight race weekends, with six of them in Germany and one each in Austria and the Netherlands. A high-calibre line-up of four Performance Drivers competed for Mercedes-AMG throughout the year. Luca Stolz and Arjun Maini were once again in action for Mercedes-AMG Team HRT. Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD entered Lucas Auer and Maro Engel.
With 13 podiums from 16 races, Mercedes-AMG was the most successful of the seven brands competing in the 2024 season. This enabled them to win the manufacturers‘ championship with 434 points. In the drivers’ championship, Maro Engel kept the title race open until the finale and finished the season in third place overall. He took the #130 Mercedes-AMG GT3, which was sporting an anniversary livery to mark 130 Years of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport, to seven podiums, one pole position and two fastest laps.
Luca Stolz, Arjun Maini and Lucas Auer also notched up individual successes. Stolz's victory at the Sachsenring was the only win of the season for the Mercedes-AMG GT3. Maini's seventh-place finish in the drivers' championship made it his most successful year in the DTM so far. He made three podium appearances and also secured his first pole position at Spielberg. On the final race weekend, the Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD pit crew further delivered the fastest stop of the entire season in 5.853 seconds, thus securing second place in the DTM Pit Stop Challenge with only a one-point deficit.
Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing in the DTM 2024:
- No.
Team
Driver
4
Mercedes-AMG Team HRT
- Luca Stolz (GER)
Hockenheim:
Jules Gounon (AND)
36
Mercedes-AMG Team HRT
Arjun Maini (IND)
22
Mercedes-AMG Team MANN-FILTER
Lucas Auer (AUT)
130
Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD
Maro Engel (GER)
2024 schedule:
- Track
Date
Event
Oschersleben / GER
26. – 28. April
Race 1 & 2
Lausitzring / GER
24. – 26. May
Race 3 & 4
Zandvoort / NED
7. – 9. June
Race 5 & 6
Norisring / GER
5. – 7. July
Race 7 & 8
Nürburgring / GER
16. – 18. August
Race 9 & 10
Sachsenring / GER
6. – 8. September
Race 11 & 12
Red Bull Ring / AUT
27. – 29. September
Race 13 & 14
Hockenheimring / GER
18. – 20. October
Race 15 & 16
2023 - Rollercoaster ride with two victories
In the 2023 DTM season, three of our Customer Racing Teams competed with a total of six Mercedes-AMG GT3s. In addition to the Mercedes-AMG Teams HRT and WINWARD, which were already established in 2021, Mercedes-AMG Team Landgraf made their debut in the internationally renowned sprint championship this year. Together with AMG brand ambassador Maro Engel, the team clinched their first DTM victory as early as on the second race weekend in Zandvoort. Luca Stolz achieved another win at the Sachsenring and went on to finish the season in sixth place overall as the best placed Mercedes-AMG driver with a total of four podium results. Lucas Auer in ninth and Maro Engel in tenth as well finished inside the top-10 of the drivers' standings.
2022 - Title showdown
For the 2022 season, Mercedes-AMG again relied on a strong line-up with a total of eight Mercedes-AMG GT3s. 16 thrilling races on eight race weekends formed the DTM calendar. And this year, once more, the battle for the title went down to the wire. Eventually, Lucas Auer (AUT), who raced for Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD, secured the runner-up spot in the drivers’ standings, having scored race wins in the season opener at Portimão and during the Hockenheimring finale. Luca Stolz (GER), a driver of Mercedes-AMG Team HRT, also had his name added to the winners’ list by coming out on top at the Nürburgring. Next to these victories, the Mercedes-AMG teams scored another eight podium finishes in total, resulting in the runner-up spot in the manufacturers’ standings.
2021 - Successful return
In the 2021 DTM season, Mercedes-AMG was present with seven Mercedes-AMG GT3s run by five Customer Racing Teams. In the penultimate of eight race weekends, Mercedes-AMG already secured the championship in the manufacturers’ standings. In the final race of the season at Norisring, Mercedes-AMG Team HRT’s Maximilian Götz won his maiden DTM drivers’ title. In total, a Mercedes-AMG GT3 finished on the podium on 18 occasions during the 2021 DTM season including six victories: next to Götz, who was first across the finish line three times, Lucas Auer scored two race wins while Philip Ellis was on the top step of the podium once.
2018 - The deserved end of an era
In the farewell season 2018, Mercedes-AMG Motorsport again displayed fireworks of success: from 20 races, the drivers with the Mercedes-AMG C 63 DTM racked up nine race wins and 14 pole positions, already sealing the manufacturers’ title on the penultimate race weekend. In the brand’s 436th DTM race and the last one to date, Gary Paffett secured his second drivers’ title after 2005.
2010-2015 - Something for the history books
With the succeeding model ranges of the C-Class, the brand continued its streak of success in DTM. In 2010, Paul di Resta secured the drivers’ title while Pascal Wehrlein was crowned as the youngest-ever DTM champion in 2015, one day before his 21st birthday, and also contributed to the repeated teams’ title win. Wehrlein also remains the series’ youngest newcomer (Hockenheimring 2013) and youngest race winner (Lausitzring 2014) to date.
1995 - A record for eternity
One year later, Bernd Schneider really came to the fore: the current Mercedes-AMG brand ambassador won the DTM title with the touring car based on the C-Class (W 202). In the following years, Schneider managed to keep his outstanding position in the series. With the AMG-Mercedes CLK DTM, he extended his track record to five DTM titles and 43 race wins, a record that will probably remain unbeaten for a long time to come.
1988-1994 - Early success
In 1988, first achievements with the Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3-16 resulted into a motorsport cooperation between AMG and Mercedes-Benz and the official start of a works presence by Mercedes-Benz in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft. The first jointly developed car resulting from the cooperation was the AMG-Mercedes 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II (W 201), driven by Klaus Ludwig to the brand’s maiden DTM title win in 1992. In 1994, Ludwig repeated this success, this time behind the wheel of the AMG-Mercedes C-Class DTM.
