New Lamborghini 2021 in DTM at the start! How T3 Motorsport got in

( Motorsport-Total. com)– It’s been a battle for months, and now it’s a last-minute success: the 2021 DTM season will be staged by a Lamborghini! “We sent our entry on Saturday,” verified T3 Motorsport group manager Jens Feucht.

The Dresden-based group is popular to lots of racing fans by utilizing the Bentley Continental at last year’s ADAC GT Masters. The Lamborghini Huracan Evo GT3 will be driven by the only 19- year-old Belgian, Esteban Muth.

This increases the DTM beginning field for 2021 to 18 cars (click on this link for an introduction). With Lamborghini, Berger can now anticipate a 6th marque, together with Mercedes, Audi, BMW, Ferrari and McLaren, which will contend over 3 weekends.

So Berger still handles the Lamborghini development

But how did the Audi subsidiary automobile end up being the 6th maker to take part in the DTM? DTM manager Gerhard Berger has actually been looking for the Lamborghini group for months, however in mid-February an astonishing job including Swiss financiers and chauffeurs Jacques Villeneuve and Nico Hülkenberg failed.

But the Austrian didn’t quit– according to “Motorsport-Total. com” he asked a well-connected group manager for guidance on who may be a Lamborghini group. He considered the T3 group, after Bentley’s exit from GT3, just to change to the Italian heritage brand name at the end of 2020.

Nicki Thiim as driver under conversation

The launch of the job has actually remained in full speed given that early March. There were even strategies to utilize 2 cars at. As motorists, Aston Martin factory driver Nicki Thiim, the child of DTM legend Kurt Thiim who was launched by GTE-Aus, and Italian driver Luca Ghiotto, who was declined by the house group, are all talking points.

Ultimately, the single-seater driver Moose has his opportunity: the Brussels-born racer, like DTM driver Lucas Orr, has at least one win in the 2019 Toyota Motorsport Series. AF Corse Ferrari driver Liam Lawson ended up being champ at the time and was consequently brought into the Red Bull youth group.

In addition to this, Moose finished Japanese Formula 3 and Formula Renault European Cups in 2019 prior to carrying on to solo racing in GT racing and the Blancpain GT series (today GT World Challenge Europe), finishing in GT4 Europe He is now driving his very first GT3 season at DTM.

T3 Motorsport prepares long-lasting future with Lamborghini

By the method, the T3 Motorsport group is getting factory assistance for the DTM job from Audi subsidiary Lamborghini. “They motivated and supported us in the DTM job,” validates group supervisor Feucht. “We will do whatever to guarantee we can carry out well and commemorate success together.”

The 2018- established group just understands the Huracan from screening in Vallelunga in November, however the bases recognize thanks to its usage of an Audi R8 LMS GT3 in 2018 and2019 “Because of the commonalities, the elements equal other than for the aerodynamics and bodywork,” Feucht discussed in an interview with “Motorsport-Total. com”. “We likewise get information from Lamborghini.”

Long-term strategies are now being exercised with the Italians. “We changed to Bentley a year ago in order to work more carefully with the maker, due to the fact that prior to that we became part of Audi’s numerous consumer groups and we did not have focus,” describes Feucht. “Then we were regrettable that Bentley stopped the factory racing, that’s why we talked with a great deal of makers. Lamborghini provided us the very best deal.”

The DTM now utilizes 2 cars and the ADAC GT Masters utilizes 3 chauffeurs, which is likewise associated with long-lasting preparation. “As an outcome, we have more information to procedure, which is likewise more fascinating for makers in the long run,” Feucht discussed. “Because our objective is that a person day we too will have the ability to do what Lamborghini does.”