The 2007 DTM season in figures
In ten DTM rounds, the field completed a total distance of 1,661.886 race kilometres. In total, the drivers drove 494 laps. This approximately equals the distance from Hamburg to Rome. The winners had a total time of almost eleven hours.
The 20 drivers have an average age of 28.5 years. The youngest driver is Paul di Resta (21), the oldest is Bernd Schneider (43). The field includes drivers from ten countries. Germany has the strongest with eight drivers from Great Britain (4). Also present on the grid are Canada, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, France, Greece, Denmark and Finland.
The DTM is a crowd puller. More than 800,000 spectators attended the ten DTM rounds of the season, an average of 80,000 fans per round.
The ARD broadcast almost 23 hours live from the 2007 DTM. In Germany, more than 20 million viewers watched the broadcasting from the ten season rounds live in front of the TV screens. With a market share of 18.4 percent, the Mugello round came out on top.
The Norisring round was particularly attractive for TV stations. German TV stations broadcast more than eleven hours from Nuremberg.
Worldwide, the DTM races were shown live or tape-delayed in 46 countries. More than 2,000 journalists applied for accreditation throughout the season.
Highlights of the DTM races were broadcast in 175 countries.
There were more than 35 million hits on the official home page of the DTM,
www.dtm.com, this year.
The DTM teams used a total of 10,500 tyres from tyre partner Dunlop, including 3,400 rain tyres. When laid out together, this would amout to a distance of 6,825 metres or three and a half times the entire track length at Brands Hatch. All tyres together have a weight of 420 tons. This is 20 tons more than the maximum weight of a Boeing 747 upon take-off.
