Superpower

‘We believe for certain that this is a big step towards the globalisation of GT competition by GTA and ITR’

Just like the coming together of tectonic plates, the merging of the German DTM and Japanese GT500 series has taken a very long time, but finally they featured on track together at the last round of the DTM at Hockenheim in October.

For the first time the six manufacturers ran together in competition, in qualifying and in the second race of the weekend. It was not necessarily a fair fight, the Japanese had brought their old cars to compete against the latest models from the DTM, and the lap times and race results showed a comprehensive win for the Europeans on home soil.

At the time of writing BMW, Audi and Aston Martin were set to go to Fuji, Japan, in November, for a full-scale race weekend that is the next stage of integration before the Japanese