The Latest Breaking News from Mirko Bortolotti

In a thrilling Sunday race at Oschersleben, Ayhancan Guven celebrated his first victory – and the first-ever DTM win by a Turkish driver. The Manthey-Porsche driver triumphed thanks to a perfect strategy that vaulted him to the front after the first of two mandatory pitstops.

They were fierce title rivals last year, but Mirko Bortolotti has brought the coveted number one to the Abt DTM team for 2025, following title success last year.

Mirko Bortolotti has pinpointed his determined runner-up finish in an eventful race at Zandvoort as being crucial to his 2024 title-winning DTM campaign, as he defied a delaminating left-rear tyre.

In his final year racing an Audi, Kelvin van der Linde put together an excellent DTM campaign but came up short to Mirko Bortolotti after leading into the final race.

Seven podiums and third overall made for Maro Engel’s strongest DTM campaign yet, 16 years on from his debut. The leading light of Mercedes’ GT roster led its four-strong contingent home in nine of 16 races as it clinched the manufacturers’ crown, while in GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup…

After finishing runner-up in 2023, Mirko Bortolotti went one better by delivering his maiden DTM crown with a consistent campaign. There was only one win, a well-judged wet-dry affair at the Red Bull Ring, but nobody eclipsed the SSR Lamborghini Huracan driver’s tally of seven podiums.

GT racing star Kelvin van der Linde is poised to join BMW’s factory roster in 2025, but any such deal would leave him without a seat in the DTM.

DTM champion Mirko Bortolotti has conceded he will be "sad" when the "special" Lamborghini Huracan GT3 bows out of active service and is replaced by the new Temerario model for 2026.

Lamborghini looks set to downscale its LMDh programme for 2025 and to compete in either the World Endurance Championship or the IMSA SportsCar Championship.