2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

The 2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters will be the thirty-sixth season of premier German touring car championship and also the twenty-third season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It will be the second season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations.

Teams and drivers

All teams competed with tyres supplied by Michelin.

Team changes

* GT World Challenge Europe regulars Attempto Racing will join the DTM full-time, running a single Audi R8 LMS Evo II car.
* Rowe Racing, which ran two BMW M6 GT3 cars full-time in 2021, will leave the DTM in order to concentrate on endurance racing.
* Schubert Motorsport will join the series full-time by fielding two BMW M4 GT3 cars. Walkenhorst Motorsport will also race with two BMW M4 GT3 cars full-time in 2022, after doing so with a single BMW M6 GT3 car in 2021.
* GRT Grasser Racing Team will join the series full-time by fielding a total of four Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo cars. The Austrian team will be factory-backed by Lamborghini.
* T3 Motorsport will not be factory-backed by Lamborghini, after racing two Huracán GT3 Evo cars full-time in 2021. The team decided to continue to field the same type of car as a privateer in 2022 and confirmed the retainment of their 2021 driver Esmee Hawkey and the signing of Nicki Thiim.
* JP Motorsport will not return to the series in 2022, after making guest appearances at three rounds in 2021 by fielding a single McLaren 720S GT3 car.
* Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed is set to leave the series after running a single-car effort for Arjun Maini in 2021.
* Timo Bernhard's KÜS Team Bernhard team will join the DTM full-time, entering a single Porsche 911 GT3 R car.
* SSR Performance will join the series full-time by fielding two Porsche 911 GT3 R cars, after making a guest appearance with a single car at the Nürburgring round in 2021.

Driver changes

* Three-time DTM champion René Rast will return to the series with Abt Sportsline and replace Mike Rockenfeller, who retired from the series at the end of the 2021 season. Ricardo Feller, who won the 2021 ADAC GT Masters, will join the DTM for the first time and replace Sophia Flörsch in the third Abt Sportsline car.
* German teen racer Marius Zug will make his DTM debut for new team Attempto Racing.
* Esteban Muth left Lamborghini for BMW and T3 Motorsport for Walkenhorst Motorsport to become the team's second driver alongside Marco Wittmann.
* Philipp Eng will return to the DTM after a one-year absence and join Schubert Motorsport to partner Sheldon van der Linde, who drove for Rowe Racing in 2021. Timo Glock, the other Rowe Racing driver in 2021, will not return to the DTM in 2022.
* Mirko Bortolotti will join the series full-time for the GRT Grasser Racing Team, after making a guest appearance for T3 Motorsport at the Assen round in 2021 and finishing second in the first race. He will be partnered by ADAC GT Masters racer Clemens Schmid, Formula 2 driver Alessio Deledda and Swiss gentleman driver Rolf Ineichen, all three making their DTM debuts.
* Aston Martin factory driver Nicki Thiim will make his DTM debut, driving a Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo for T3 Motorsport.
* Liam Lawson and Alex Albon, who drove for the Red Bull Racing-backed AF Corse team in 2021, will not return to the series in 2022, as Lawson switched his focus to Formula 2 and Albon returned to Formula One with Williams Racing. They were replaced by Felipe Fraga, who will make his DTM debut, and Nick Cassidy, who already stood in for Albon at the 2021 season finale.
* Defending champion Maximilian Götz left Team HRT to replace Philip Ellis at Team Winward, both teams running a Mercedes-AMG. Team HRT replaced Götz with Luca Stolz, who will join the DTM full-time after making a guest appearance at the Nürburgring round in 2021. Arjun Maini also moved between Mercedes-AMG teams, as he left Team GetSpeed for Team HRT to replace Vincent Abril.
* Maro Engel will return to the DTM for the first time since 2017 and drive a Mercedes-AMG for Team GruppeM Racing alongside Mikaël Grenier, who will join the series for the first time and replace Daniel Juncadella.
* Former FIA Formula 3 driver David Schumacher will join the series for the first time and drive a third car for Mercedes-AMG Team Winward, partnering Götz and Lucas Auer.
* Thomas Preining will join the series for the first time, driving KÜS Team Bernhard's sole Porsche 911 GT3 R car.
* Laurens Vanthoor and Dennis Olsen will join the series for the first time, driving the two Porsche 911 GT3 R cars fielded by SSR Performance.

Rule changes

* Team orders were completely outlawed in the wake of the 2021 season finale controversy at the Norisring.

Race calendar

A nine-round 2022 calendar was announced on 3 September 2021. On 23 December 2021, it was announced that an unconfirmed round outside Germany on 4th and 5th June 2022 would not take place, making it an eight-round calendar.

Calendar changes

* Spa-Francorchamps returns to the DTM calendar after a one-year hiatus while Portimão and Imola will make their DTM débuts. On the opposite side, the rounds at Zolder, Assen and Monza were ousted from the calendar.
* The Norisring round will return to its traditional spot in early July, after the circuit hosted the season finale for the first time in 2021. On the other hand, the Hockenheimring round will retain its traditional spot in early October and return to being the final round of the season.

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