Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing will as soon as once more area a high-quality line-up within the 2024 DTM season. With Mercedes-AMG Team HRT and Mercedes-AMG Team WINWARD Racing, the efficiency and sports activities automobile model is counting on two established and extremely revered Performance Teams. The quartet of Lucas Auer (Austria), Maro Engel (Germany), Arjun Maini (India) and Luca Stolz (Germany) can be competing for the celebrated DTM title with the racing vehicles from Affalterbach, Germany. Suitably for the 40th anniversary of the DTM, Mercedes-AMG is celebrating 130 years of motorsport beneath the signal of the star with the motto “Defining Motorsport since 1894”.
Two Mercedes-AMG Performance Teams, 4 Performance Drivers and Mercedes-AMG Team HRT is counting on a confirmed driver pairing with 26-year-old Arjun Maini and Luca Stolz. The duo has fashioned the line-up of the racing group from Drees since 2022.
Maini made his debut as the primary Indian driver in DTM in 2021. He made historical past in the identical yr by ending in second place on the Norisring. In 2023, he confirmed a constructive kind curve throughout the second half of the season. For this yr, Maini was promoted from Junior Driver to Mercedes-AMG Performance Driver standing.
Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing is continuous its profitable historical past within the 35th season for Mercedes-Benz within the DTM with the line-up for 2024. Mercedes-AMG is on a mission within the battle for the title, aiming to convey the DTM trophy again to Affalterbach after 2021.
The calendar of the championship, organised by the ADAC, once more consists of eight rounds with a complete of 16 races in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. For Mercedes-AMG, the hunt for the ninth producers’ title within the DTM begins with the season opener on the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben from 26 to 28 April. The first encounter of all DTM members will already happen throughout the official take a look at days in Hockenheim in the beginning of April.
“I’m incredibly excited to be back in the DTM in 2024 as a part of Mercedes-AMG, and in my third year with HRT and with Luca as my team-mate. DTM is always a huge challenge and, together with the team, I want to put everything I’ve learnt and the experience from previous years into practice to deliver consistently strong results this season! I’m particularly looking forward to the Norisring. I really enjoy the atmosphere at this venue and that is also where I scored my maiden DTM podium.” Arjun Maini, Mercedes-AMG Team HRT #36
“As a brand, we have a long and very successful heritage in the history of the DTM since 1984, which we want to live up to, of course. As we know, the 2023 DTM season by no means fulfilled our expectations. We were behind the competition for long stretches. In order to build on our previous achievements, we are focussing on the upcoming season,” Arjun Maini mentioned.
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