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Kalender to change into youngest DTM driver with Mercedes deal
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Kalender to change into youngest DTM driver with Mercedes deal

By Miles Cooper February 12, 2025
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Reigning GT Masters champion Tom Kalender will change into the youngest-ever DTM driver when he strains up on the grid for the 2025 season opener at Oschersleben.

The 16-year-old has been signed by Mercedes to characterize the returning Landgraf staff within the DTM after he broke the age file in GT Masters final 12 months, when he gained the general title with Finnish racer Elias Seppanen.

He will likely be simply 17 years and 30 days outdated at first of the season, surpassing the file held for nearly a decade by present Porsche Formulation E star Pascal Wehrlein.

Kalender will likely be joined by Nurburgring and Macau GT winner Engel, who beforehand raced for Landgraf in 2023 and has been an everyday fixture of Mercedes’ DTM line-up within the sequence’ GT3 period.

Landgraf was a part of Mercedes’ DTM roster in 2023 however is extra well-known for its success in GT Masters, a sequence additionally run by German car affiliation ADAC. Its 2024 triumph with Kalender and Seppanen marked its third straight title within the championship.

In the meantime, two-time Spa 24 Hours winner Jules Gounon will be a part of Winward Racing to associate incumbent Lucas Auer.

Kalender to change into youngest DTM driver with Mercedes deal

Lucas Auer, Mercedes-AMG Crew WINWARD Mercedes-AMG GT3

Picture by: Alexander Trienitz

Having already made his DTM debut finally 12 months’s Hockenheim finale as a stand-in for the sick Luca Stolz, 30-year-old Gounon will contest the complete 2025 season in a Mercedes AMG GT3 entered by Winward.

The French driver will dovetail his newly introduced DTM commitments with a drive within the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship, the place he’ll compete for the manufacturing facility Alpine staff alongside Frederic Makowiecki and Mick Schumacher.

In DTM, he’ll staff up with nine-time race winner Auer, who will likely be embarking on his tenth season within the class and ninth with Mercedes.

Gounon and Kalender substitute Luca Stolz and Arjun Maini in Mercedes’ four-car line-up. Stolz was initially a contender for Mercedes’ debut within the LMGT3 class of the World Endurance Championship with Iron Lynx, however is now prone to race within the GT World Problem Europe.

In the meantime, Maini has left Mercedes’ steady altogether to hitch forces with Ford and will discover a berth in HRT’s anticipated two-car entry with the Mustang GT3.

Hubert Haupt’s HRT staff had been a Mercedes buyer since inception however has switched its allegiance to Ford, which is ramping up its GT3 programme in Europe.

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