2011 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season

The 2011 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season is a multi-event motor racing series largely based in Germany for highly modified touring car racing cars and is one of the most popular sedan car based motor racing series in the world. The series features professional motor racing teams and drivers is heavily supported by car manufacturers Audi and Mercedes-Benz. Each race features 18 V8 powered racing cars built according to the technical regulations of the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. It will be the twelfth season of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. The 2011 season will be the first season that cars will not run on Dunlop tyres, instead running on Hankook tyres in the first year of a three-year control-tyre deal. It was the final season running the 4-door saloon style spec cars, which has been the series' sole car style requirements since 2004. It was also the final season that all DTM cars running with the manual gearbox shifters before all DTM cars switched to sequential semi-automatic gearbox paddle shifters at the following season.

Canadian Mercedes-Benz driver Bruno Spengler leads the series after five races. After winning the season opening Hockenheim and the most recent race at the Norisring, Spengler now holds a three-point lead over German Audi driver Martin Tomczyk who won races at the Red Bull Ring and Eurospeedway. The two hold a points gap over third placed Audi driver Timo Scheider. The other race winner was Audi driver Mike Rockenfeller, although after his Le Mans sportscar accident Rockenfeller has had to take a break from DTM to recover with series veteran Tom Kristensen replacing him.

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