During three days of testing in Monteblanco, Spain this past week, Marco Wittmann experienced a special first: The 2014 DTM champion’s car featured its 2016 design. From now on, he will race in the Red Bull BMW M4 DTM. This means that BMW Team RMG’s number 11 car now bears the look of Red Bull, Premium Partner of BMW Motorsport. The Austrian company has supported BMW in the DTM since 2014.
“I am delighted to represent the Red Bull colours in 2016,” said Wittmann speaking about this latest development. “Red Bull supports many of the top athletes in many different disciplines – all around the world. Now to be part of this circle myself makes me really proud. It was fantastic working with the Red Bull colleagues during my Formula 1 test for Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2015. However, I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my previous partner Ice-Watch. We celebrated great successes together, in particular, winning the title in the 2014 season. Now I will give it my all to ensure that the same will be true of the collaboration with Red Bull.”
For the past two seasons Marco Wittmann has driven the multi-colored Ice Watch liveried M4 DTM—the Red Bull M4 DTM car was driven by former Red Bull Racing F1 test driver Antonio Felix da Costa.
The 2016 DTM season gets underway at the Hockenheimring on May 7 with the first of 18 races. The season will once again feature two races over a weekend, one on Saturday and one on Sunday.
