Specs on the warsteiner?

[Lance Racing]

The numbers were always changing, so you can't really put one number out there, but the one post are pretty good ballparks for that time. Even though they could supposedly only put on new speed bits after a homologation update, in the old video race reports you would hear teams talking about new bits, and complaining about other teams new bits.

I suspect that their HP numbers were a little low. With the FIA always trying to level the playing field, no manufacture really wanted to give their real HP numbers for fear of getting slapped with restrictions. So usually the numbers are under-estimates.

Realize that by the end of the series they also had qualifying engines designed for just a couple of laps before exploding, and race engines only had to do one race. So there was no concern for long term reliability.

It was a golden era, that's for sure!

[Tree18is]

jesus was it golden.... shit.... (slobber run's)

[xLibelle]

the numbers are intensely impressive for todays standards even.

I wish i was old enough to have had the ability to apprecieate the DTM era when it was happening... that or it somehow came back to life in some other, close form today.
There are some interesting class battles right now, but nothing remotely close to those races in the 90's. :(

[Julien]

Team Bigazzi No joke!

The driver of that car, JM Martin, now has a BMW dealer down the street.. Cool guy

[Knockenwelle]

I suspect that their HP numbers were a little low.

Yeah, you think?

330 hp @6500, 214 ft-lbs@7500, and a 9300 RPM rev limit? I'll bet it peaked at about 8400.

[FredK]

Yeah, I saw a Gp.A or Gp.A spec dyno sheet and the hp looked like a triangle. Amazing VE.

[dannyyisntt]

this is starting to turn into a more interesting thread. I wish that i had been old enough to even experience the dtm era. Its kind of a shame that us young people of today haven't had much along the same lines to follow.

[Lance Racing]

It was hugely popular in Germany. Crowds of 60,000-100,000 at the track were the norm. Plus the TV audience. Like NASCAR here now, they even televised practice on Saturday, then televised the race on Sunday. A couple of years ago I found a guy in Germany who had taped all of the races and had him dub me a few races on PAL video tape. It's all in German language, but still cool to have. I had to buy a special VCR to play the tapes.

I went through the old records and had him dub me races where BMW won. :)

In the Seattle area back in the day, an obscure sports network would sometimes show a race, overdubbing the German with English. You had to be lucky to see it on TV in the states.

BMW did OK in the DTM but didn't clean up by any means. They did not win a manufacture's title and only won one driver's championship. The factory supported the works teams, but so did Mercedes, Audi, Ford, etc.