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Why Vila Actual and Salzburg are lacking from the 2025 DTM calendar
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Why Vila Actual and Salzburg are lacking from the 2025 DTM calendar

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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The DTM introduced its full 2025 calendar earlier this week, however curiously each Vila Actual and the Salzburgring have been absent from the eight-round schedule.

Portuguese avenue circuit Vila Actual, finest recognized for internet hosting World Touring Automobile Cup races, had signed a cope with DTM’s earlier proprietor ITR for 2023, however the change of promoter meant that it by no means obtained to make its sequence debut.

Vila Actual had since entered into negotiations with the ADAC for its third season of internet hosting the DTM, whereas Salzburgring bosses have been additionally assured of internet hosting a race subsequent 12 months after upgrading a few of its services.

In the end, neither venue obtained the nod for 2025, because the DTM elected to maintain its confirmed eight-round schedule, with six weekends going down in Germany and one every in Austria and the Netherlands.

In an official assertion, ADAC motorsport director Thomas Voss mentioned: “Over the previous few months, we’ve got rigorously scrutinised thrilling venues for the DTM.

“Nonetheless, as all of the occasions in Germany have skilled a big improve in reputation amongst guests, we are going to persist with the tried and examined venues for the 2025 season.”

Motorsport.com understands that the ADAC needs to develop the calendar past eight occasions in the long run.

There have been additionally discussions to carry a ninth spherical as early as 2025, however groups – already preventing to maintain expenditure inside their budgets – weren’t supportive of the thought.

Therefore, visiting Vila Actual – or Salzburgring – would have come at the price of an current German venue, one thing groups have been, once more, not in favour of.

Furthermore, the ADAC needs to concentrate on consistency in occasion improvement, with an uptick in trackside spectators in any respect circuits besides Spielberg vindicating its method.

Plus, whether it is doable to develop the calendar past eight occasions sooner or later, any German circuit that may have been omitted from the 2025 schedule must be added again once more.

Points with Vila Actual and Salzburgring
Why Vila Actual and Salzburg are lacking from the 2025 DTM calendar

TCR racing on the Salzburgring in 2017

Photograph by: TCR media

Groups have been additionally not eager on a metropolis race in Vila Actual because of the excessive threat of crash injury and the journey prices related to delivery vehicles and tools to Portugal.

On this regard, the ADAC was reportedly capable of safe insurance coverage for groups, as half of the sector competes with uninsured GT3 vehicles. Furthermore, it could even have subsided journey prices for groups, lowering their monetary burden. However in the end, a call was made to not take any undue dangers in the interim.

As for the Salzburgring, the DTM nonetheless needs to check the suitability of the monitor for GT3 racing with a GT Masters occasion in 2025.

Though the circuit invested in a state-of-the-art race management facility on the request of the DTM, Voss nonetheless believes “that some work nonetheless must be completed on the monitor.”

He added: “I feel the chicane on the start-finish is just too slender for GT vehicles. The Nocksteinkehre [region] at all times has issues with water.

“If it rains closely, you do not drive there, similar to on the Lausitzring, however in precept I would not rule out a take a look at occasion.

He added: “We’d not wish to run a DTM race on the Salzburgring with out making an attempt it out.”

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