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Mercedes Presents Young Driver Team For 2012

Continuing with their tradition of providing young talent with a competitive stepping stone to world-class competition, Mercedes has announced a trio of drivers who will compete as members of the Mercedes-Benz Junior Team. Using a DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupé as their platform, drivers Roberto Merhi (Spain, 20, Junge Sterne Mercedes AMG C-Coupé, Persson Motorsport), Christian Vietoris (Germany, 23, Mercedes-Benz Bank AMG C-Coupé, HWA) and Robert Wickens (Canada, 22, stern Mercedes AMG C-Coupé, Mücke Motorsport) will together be contesting the world’s most popular touring car series. As a matter of record, the Mercedes-Benz Junior Team of the 90s featured Michael Schumacher, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and Karl Wendlinger. At present, eight out of… Continue Reading »

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Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3’s Guest Driver – Mika Hakkinen

Mika Hakkinen is back, and he will racing at Zhuhai for 6 hours on November 13, 2011 on board the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. Häkkinen’s first race since 2007 DTM season finale at Hockenheim A guest drive for the Finn as a Mercedes-Benz brand ambassador Team-mate to CongFu Cheng and Lance David Arnold in the Customer AMG Sports Team China For the first time in four years, former Formula One and DTM driver Mika Häkkinen will climb into the cockpit of a racing car for the season finale of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup on 13th November in Zhuhai (China). Häkkinen will be driving a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 for… Continue Reading »

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Ralf Schumacher’s Fifth DTM Season

The fan favorite, Ralf Schumacher, will still race and represent Mercedes-Benz for the 2012 DTM season. He will just continue with the great performance that he did for the 2011 season, his two podium finishes in Hockenheim and Austrian circuit of Spielberg. Since the new season has not started yet, Schumacher is busy getting involved with the testing and developing for the new DTM AMG Mercedes C-Coupe. He drove the race at the Lausitzring last October 12-13, which is also where gary Paffett tried the car in September this year. He is scheduled to test the car again before the end of the year. “DTM is a fantastic championship and,… Continue Reading »

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Bernd Schneider and Klaus Ludwig become brand ambassadors

Bernd Schneider and Klaus Ludwig, by far the most successful ever DTM touring car racing drivers, have been appointed as brand ambassadors, instructors and test drivers for AMG and Mercedes-Benz. With these appointments, which take immediate effect, Mercedes-Benz and the high-performance brand AMG have succeeded in securing the extensive wealth of experience and expertise of two of motorsport’s greatest professionals. Bernd Schneider, who competed in his last DTM race at the season’s finale on 26 October 2008 at the Hockenheimring circuit, will now provide support to the AMG development team as a test driver and will also pass on his know-how as an expert instructor at the AMG Driving Academy…. Continue Reading »

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DTM Presentation in Düsseldorf: Power in the City

A crowd of 200,000 at Düsseldorf’s shopping street Kà¶nigsallee attended the DTM’s start for the 2008 season. The DTM presentation one week prior to the season opener in Hockenheim, the third one in a row in Düsseldorf, attracted 17,000 spectators more than one year ago. For the first time in 2008, all nine Mercedes-Benz DTM drivers introduced themselves to a record crowd. More pictures after the break.

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