Fun Facts
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- The longest interruption of the race took place in 2021 due to fog engulfing the Nürburgring. The teams and drivers had to wait for over 14 hours starting on Saturday evening before conditions were deemed safe enough to race again. This topped the previous record of about nine and a half hours in 2020, where heavy rain prevented the race from continuing throughout the night.
- Pedro Lamy, Marcel Tiemann and Timo Bernhard share the record for most wins at the event at five.
- The longest time between two victories for the same driver is 28 years, as Hans-Joachim Stuck followed up his win at the 1970 event in 1998.
- No other manufacturer has had more success than BMW in the race: The Bavarian manufacturer took 20 victories at the Ring as of 2022, followed by Porsche, who scored 13 wins.
- Only two winning manufacturers were not from Germany: Ford won with the Escort RS2000 in 1979 and 1980, plus the Capri 3.0 in 1981 and 1982, while Chrysler was on top in 1999, 2001 and 2002 with a Viper GTS-R. However, Ford had and still has a German HQ in Cologne, and the Viper was heavily modified to the requirements of the race by German team Zakspeed.
- The original DTM held championship rounds as part of the 24-hour events from 1988 to 1990 and again in 1992 and 1993.
- Three of the four 2022 winners are looking to defend their victory in 2023, but all of them are in different cars this time: Frederic Vervisch is driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II for Audi Sport Team Scherer PHX, Laurens Vanthoor is behind the wheel of a Dinamic GT Porsche 911 GT3 R (992), and Kelvin van der Linde races in ABT Sportsline's Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2. Robin Frijns is not entering the race in 2023. The quartet had won for Audi Sport Team Phoenix in 2022.
