Deutscher Tourenwagen Cup

Deutscher Tourenwagen Cup
Category	Touring cars
Country	Germany
Inaugural season	1995
Folded	2017
Last Drivers' champion	Fredrik Lestrup
Last Teams' champion	Besapalast Team Dombek
Official website	dtc-series.de
Current season

The Deutsche Tourenwagen Cup (DTC, formerly known as ADAC Procar Series) was a yearly motorsport series in Germany and some surrounding countries. The series began in 1995 and folded in 2017.^[1]

Current status

The DTC was the highest level of German motorsport that ran cars to the Super 2000 regulations used in World Touring Car Championship (WTCC). To fill up the grid, and to promote new, young drivers the few Super 2000 cars were joined by the less advanced Division 2 and 3 series (the Super 2000 cars being called Division 1), bringing up the total number of starting drivers to around 20 to 25. Division 1 also allowed cars of BTCC-spec – the 2005 champion Mathias Schläppi won in a BTCC-built MG ZS.

As of 2016 there are 3 different classes in the DTC

Superproduction - 1.6 L, turbocharged cars up to 300 Bhp
Production 1 - 1.6 L, turbocharged cars up to 230 Bhp
Production 2 - 2.0 L, turbocharged cars up to 260 Bhp

History

The DTC began 1995 as a championship for Super Production cars under the name DTC (Deutsche Tourenwagen Challenge). Ford and Hotfiel Sport had an important presence in the early and middle parts of the history of the series with Thomas Klenke winning the championship in 2002. The series was called the DMSB Produktionswagen Meisterschaft in 2004 and raced in two rounds of the European Touring Car Championship.

The 2005 season saw the introduction of Super 2000 rules for Division 1 and the series changed its name to the DMSB Produktionswagen Meisterschaft. Mathias Schläppi in a MG ZS for Maurer Motorsport was the undisputed champion, winning 12 out of 16 races. 2006 saw Maurer Motorsport swapping their MG's for Chevrolet's and Mathias Schläppi for ex-BTCC driver Vincent Radermecker. Schläppi instead drove for the new TFS-Yaco team running Toyota Corollas. Vincent Radermecker would win Maurer's second title while Schläppi was second in the championship.

While arguably having some talented drivers and teams such as Radermecker, Schläppi, Maurer Motorsport and so on the DTC is very minor compared to the immensely popular DTM series.

Scoring system

Below is the scoring system used for the results of each race during the 2010 season:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th
Points	10	8	6	5	4	3	2	1

Champions

Season	Champion	Car	Team Champion
1995	Mario Hebler	Renault Clio Williams	Arkenau Motorsport
1996	Jürgen Hohenester	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Hohenester Motorsport
1997	Jürgen Hohenester	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Hohenester Motorsport
1998	Thomas Winkelhock	BMW 320i	Brinkmann Motorsport
1999	Jürgen Hohenester	Volkswagen Golf GTI	Hohenester Motorsport
2000	Franz Engstler	BMW 320i	Bertrand Schäfer Racing
2001	Markus Gedlich	BMW 320i	Schubert Motors
2002	Thomas Klenke	Ford Focus	Hotfiel Sport
2003	Claudia Hürtgen	BMW 320i	Schubert Motors
2004	Claudia Hürtgen	BMW 320i	Schubert Motors
2005	Mathias Schläppi	MG ZS	Maurer Motorsport
2006	Vincent Radermecker	Chevrolet Lacetti	Maurer Motorsport
2007	Franz Engstler	BMW 320i	Engstler Motorsport
2008	Philip Geipel	Toyota Auris	TFS Yaco Racing
2009	Remo Friberg	BMW 320i	Liqui Moly Team Engstler
2010	Roland Hertner	BMW 320si	Liqui Moly Team Engstler
2011	Johannes Leidinger	BMW 320si E90	Liqui Moly Team Engstler
2012	Jens Guido Weimann	BMW 320si E90	Thate Motorsport
2013	Jens Guido Weimann	BMW 320si E90	Thate Motorsport
2014	Heiko Hammel^[2]	Ford Fiesta ST	Wolf Racing
2015	Fredrik Lestrup^[3]	Mini John Cooper Works	Besapalast Team Dombek
2016	Milenko Vukovic	Audi S3 Saloon	Vukovic Motorsport