BMW Motorsport emerged from the 2015 DTM season finale at Hockenheim with the manufacturers’ championship, finishing seven points ahead of Audi. Mercedes was a distant third.
Maxime Martin of Team RMG was the best BMW finisher of the weekend at Hockenheim, scoring a third-place finish on Saturday and a sixth on Sunday. Audi dominated the weekend, with Timo Scheider winning on Saturday and Jamie Green leading an Audi podium sweep on Sunday. Mercedes’ Pascal Wehrlein secured the drivers’ championship on Saturday, the day before his 21st birthday, becoming the youngest ever to win the title.
Along with Martin, both Team RMG’s Marco Wittmann and Team RBM’s Tom Blomqvist scored points for BMW on Saturday, coming across the line sixth and seventh respectively. On Sunday António Félix da Costa (Team Schnitzer) finished seventh after battling with Martin late in the race, Bruno Spengler (Team MTEK) finished eighth, and Team Schnitzer’s Martin Tomczyk finished tenth.
BMW Team RMG was second in team points and Bruno Spengler was fifth in the drivers’ championship.
BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt said, “It is fantastic to end the 2015 DTM season as the champion manufacturer. This title is always proof of an outstanding team effort over the course of a season. It belongs to every one of us in the team – whether driver, engineer or mechanic, and was primarily possible thanks to the fighting spirit shown by every single one of us. After a difficult start, we improved over the course of the season. When presented with the opportunity to get good results, we took full advantage – such as with our top seven lock-out in Zandvoort. Five different race winners in the BMW M4 DTM also shows we achieved our goal for 2015, which was to be more competitive across the board. I am very proud of that. Congratulations again to Pascal Wehrlein and Mercedes on winning the Drivers’ title.”—Brian S. Morgan
