Twenty three years after the last race on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, a DTM car will drive through the “Green Hell“ again on September 12. After the DTM race weekend in the Eifel region, BMW works driver Augusto Farfus will be driving laps on the longest permanent race track in the world in his Shell BMW M4 DTM. The winner of a fan promotion from Shell – Premium Technology Partner of BMW Motorsport in the DTM – will be in the passenger seat.
Matthias Malmedie, best known from “Grip – Das Motormagazin“ on the German TV station RTL II, will be commentating on this unique taxi journey. This driving experience with Farfus is being made possible by special conversion work to the Shell BMW M4 DTM, to adjust it to the specific requirements of the Nordschleife. “The Nordschleife is as familiar to me as my living room, I know every centimetre of asphalt here. I have competed in the 24-hour race countless times, and I won it in 2010,“ said Farfus.
“However, I have only experienced the “Green Hell“ from the cockpit of a GT car. Being allowed to drive a few laps here with the Shell BMW M4 DTM race taxi will be a real highlight – especially as I am the first DTM driver to have this honour for 23 years. I am really looking forward to this unique promotion and to my fans, who should really enjoy this.“
Next weekend, the DTM will be taking place at the legendary Nürburgring for the 50th time. There have been 73 races at the historic circuit in the Eifel in this touring car series, a number only bettered by Hockenheim (80) in Germany. The races will take place on the 3.629-kilometre short version of the Grand Prix circuit on 10th and 11th September. The 1993 season was the last occasion on which DTM cars were able to attack the Nordschleife.
