WITTMANN GETS DTM BMW

News reached us just as we were going to press that two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann will stay in the series in the first year of its GT3 era. The Bavarian will line up in the Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3, and becomes the third of the Munich marque’s factory drivers to be confirmed this season in the DTM, following Rowe Racing pair Timo Glock and Sheldon van der Linde. Wittmann is also racing for Walkenhorst in the GT World Challenge Europe this season.