Marco Wittmann (left) won his first Drivers' Championship while
Mattias Ekström (right) finished second in the championship.
The 2014 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the twenty-eighth season of premier German touring car championship and also fifteenth season under the moniker of
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. The season started on 4 May at
Hockenheim, and ended on 19 October at the same venue, after a total of ten rounds.
In his second season in the series,
BMW Team RMG driver
Marco Wittmann became champion after his consistent finishes throughout the season left him with a comfortable 50-point winning margin. Wittmann took his first series victory in the opening race at Hockenheim, and quickly added a second victory at the
Hungaroring. He also won back-to-back races at the
Red Bull Ring and the
Nürburgring, before clinching the title at
Lausitzring.
Mattias Ekström finished the season as runner-up for
Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, winning the season's final two races at
Zandvoort and Hockenheim – Audi's only victories of the 2014 season. Another Audi driver clinched third in the championship, as defending champion
Mike Rockenfeller finished in the position for
Audi Sport Team Phoenix; he took three second places during the year, but went winless. Other drivers to take victories were Wittmann's team-mate
Maxime Martin at
Moscow Raceway, with
HWA triumvirate
Robert Wickens (
Norisring),
Christian Vietoris (
Oschersleben) and
Pascal Wehrlein (Lausitzring) taking victories for Mercedes; for Vietoris and Wehrlein, it was their first in the series.
It was also the last season of the single-legged race format before it was replaced by the two-legged DTM race format for
the following season (with both races held on Saturday and Sunday).
Calendar
A provisional ten-round calendar was announced on 16 October 2013.[1]
In July, it was announced that the Chinese round – originally scheduled for 28 September on a temporary street circuit in
Guangzhou – was cancelled, as the modifications necessary for erecting the circuit proved to be far more extensive than first planned. As a result, a replacement round was scheduled for the same weekend, held at
Zandvoort in the Netherlands.[2]
Dirk Werner, who drove for BMW in 2012 and 2013, left the series and joined the BMW endurance programme, including competing at the
24 Hours Nürburgring.[6]